“Capitalism and the American Pandemic Response”, from
Second Thought, on March 28, 2020, certainly pits the “ethics” of capitalism
against handling the coronavirus.
Toward the end, the speaker pits saving the lives of
the elderly against the financial stability for everyone else.
But lower income working people definite take contagion risks that white-collar work-from home "nerds" don't have to take, and the latter group still seems to have very little illness.
There is a lot here about the failures of our system
in health care. Insulin costs $300 here
and #32 in Canada. Truvalda costs $8 in
Australia and $2000 in the US (and related drugs might work against
coronavirus).
The top “0.1%” owns as much as the bottom 90%.
The speaker insists that workers organize and accept
the idea of class struggle and considers rentiers parasites and criminals.
He also says that landlords don’t “work” for a living.
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