21 November

The greatest con of the past 5 years is that ‘lockdowns’ damaged us. Lockdowns freed vast numbers of Australians from poverty, for the first time in their lives. They forced much more workplace flexibility, which employers had resisted for decades. They cleaned the air in cities that had previously been choking in smog. They made the ‘economy’ boom, because when the poor get money they spend it, unlike the rich, who hoard it. You can see even today how the status quo still attacks lockdowns. Those who did very well out of the old status quo will resist these changes to their last breath. That’s how humans work, people will fight for their own status. Only catastrophes like pandemics change things, breaking the status games. As this research shows, it’s much cheaper to end poverty, than to maintain it. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-28/cheaper-to-end-poverty-increase-jobseeker-than-maintain-hardship/105866692