2 June

Two things to see here I think, one obvious, the other not. The obvious - China targets poverty specifically, and has made spectacular progress, unprecedented in history. The US like the rest of the West uses the poor as a reserve of cheap labour to suppress wages, so does nothing. (Note this is extreme poverty, there are many, many more in the West living unaffordable lives, in huge debt.) Now the other thing. Only catastrophe brings meaningful social change, by destroying an existing status quo. See the red circle? The poor were doing spectacularly WELL under Covid, in the US. They were doing even better here in Australia, millions were lifted out of poverty for the first time, by Covid measures. This is why the status quo invented ‘living with’ Covid. It was in pure panic, because it saw all its advantages being destroyed. Covid, like all pandemics a catastrophic threat to a society, was smashing the old status quo. The ‘economy’. So the status quo decided fuck it, you can all just live with Covid, we’ll market that as a fun thing.