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The business side of the story went from feel-good schmaltz to unbridled dank vulture capitalism at warp speed. It says something that every system that’s critical to a strong response is currently run as an extraction machine and has been for a decade.
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Juxtapose: Heart-rending photos of nurses at the edge of their capacity and PE firms behind hospitals making calculated bailout grabs while furloughing non-clinical staff.
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Juxtapose: Individuals buying restaurant gift certificates with someone like Gary Cohn presuming to deliver high minded lectures about oversight of *small-business* loans.
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Everything sweet and life-affirming in the business response is a feel-good ineffectual favela chic hopepunk sideshow theater. Everything substantively driving the main act is grimdark gothic high-tech extractive profiteering by cartoon vulture capitalist ops.
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