Opinion | How Lockdowns Fuel Inequality

Business Insider, known for click-bait, last weekend tweeted out a nine-minute video on inequality and billionaire wealth during the pandemic. President Trump took the bait, perhaps because Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had a cameo, and he retweeted the video with a comment: “Too much income disparity. Changes must be made, and soon!” Bernie Sanders couldn’t have said it better.

Politicians want to blame the rich, but their policies are contributing to these wealth disparities. Some corporate executives have become richer on paper...

ajswinsonpr opinion Hmmmmmmmmmm

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opinion I always used to watch Superman as a kid and wonder why people kept defending Lex Luthor and letting him run his company Now watching Bezos conquer the world with Amazon is like a sick deja vu

opinion quid pro quo______ congress.

opinion Duh

opinion This Country went to shit with Newt. Truth

opinion Honestly, the stupidity you all are willing to publish...

opinion having all our manufacturing jobs overseas doesn't help. Having tech giants eliminate small business doesn't help either

opinion No sh!t...and it’s Dems pushing them.

opinion And the Wall Street Journal fueled them too and certainly fueled Trump Tellthetruth

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opinion absolutely true. have told ppl that politicians make laws favoring wealthy or say one thing to get what they then secretly add/remove some thing that will benefit rich. another reason for term limits.

opinion As u see in the dumb comments, ppl will still blame the rich and not the corrupt politicians who have control over these policies

opinion But Jeff you can step up to help the society that helped build you up. Individuals build society but society don't build individuals. Help out in American schools. Help the food banks of America Money for states for medical supplies for covid. Money to help states for unemployed.

opinion “Now get back to work so us rich people can profit off your cheap labor.”

opinion EXACTLY

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opinion Tech Companies should have moral obligation to hire American citizens first and invest in education for future. High paying jobs are not going to Americans and politicians not doing anything to fix immigration. If u don’t take care own, then country will see huge disparities

opinion But you forgot to mention....the rich forced politicians for these beneficial laws via campaign donations. Its still the fault of the rich and powerful. Their fault and Republican politicians who accept the cash!

opinion Good thing the political preferences of the rich aren't influential, otherwise they might bear some blame for those policies.

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opinion Taxes taxes taxes

opinion Agree, because the rich are lobbying/paying to promote/establish/favor those policies. 😳 Some such policies are good or sensible, many are to maintain the status quo. It isn’t quantum physics.

opinion I agree the lockdowns are creating disparity. Bezos owns one of the outlets acting like a propaganda machine instilling the fear in Americans to ensure the lockdowns. Give me a break. JeffBezos

opinion What a disingenuous blurb. Bernie’s policies will eventually catch on.

opinion Do you know with more than 200,000 Chinese sellers on Amazon most of your money spent on shopping in Amazon, wired Directly to China? Without a Dime tax paid to US. DEMAND ACTION from Amazon to Disclose the Origin of its sellers. Sign and Retweet.👇

opinion Bullcrap the thing that fuels inequality in the wealth is major corporations and monopolies set the wages and also set the prices no competition.🤬🤬🤬

opinion Conservative politicians don't seem to understand, that when wealth disparities is too great, many people will never reach their potential, simply from lack of opportunity. Education and healthcare are not handouts, but an investment in a skilled and healthy workforce. 🧐

opinion Well, you are working together, oligarchs, politicians, media, as thus you have built this economical, social system of profit and exploitation mainly taken out of death bodies.

opinion “Politicians want to blame the rich for wealth disparities, but their policies are creating them”. Is that a No S**T Sherlock? 👀SenatorLankford jamesinhofe_

opinion The rich are the puppet masters pulling the strings on the elected puppet officials.

opinion Shame on gop and ImpeachedForLife trump

opinion The rich own the politicians. They are cheap to buy and the payoffs are tremendous.

opinion Lockdowns fuel massive economic losses. These losses will be paid for by future generations. Future generations will be living in poverty.

opinion Your reminder that America's richest 1 percent now own half the value of the U.S. stock market. The richest 10 percent own 92 percent.

opinion Yet they are the ones that lobby for those policies. The policies don't come out of nowhere, they serve certain interests.

opinion No. Wall Street is creating WealthDisparity and buying politicians who will enforce it!

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opinion Yes, and that's the problem.

opinion And the rich create these opinions

opinion No need for politicians...

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