The retitled 'working poor' should understand that the GOP's $200/week unemployment offer is designed by ppl who 'overstand' how the economy works. Like a demented gameshow host, the 'inherited rich class' is making you choose between your life and your work. This has been your choice for a long time, but it is even more grossly inhumane when 150,000 Americans have died in 5 months due to government incompetence. Despite the fact that we have the largest unemployment since the Great Depression and many people can not get jobs, this is the binary choice: your money or your life. Despite the fact that many people are facing the greatest wave of evictions in the nation's history due to no fault of their own, they want you to leave your family to beg for work that does not exist. This is a false choice created by the inherited rich class to get you to do what they want within a horror game. This has always been a false choice. There is no other Western nation making citizens choose between life or work in the middle of a global pandemic. And when this pandemic is over this will continue to be the false choice offered to the working poor: your money or your life.
You have been living in this gameshow your entire life. The audience applause is tape recorded. Someone pressed the button every time the phrase 'vital worker' or 'hero' is spoken. They hit the applause button every time 1,000 Americans die every day. Heroes, heroes...applause...now keep going. They'll keep hitting that button so that you know they admire what a great gameshow contestant you are...you are so invested in choosing the 'obstacle course of death' as you race against your working poor contestants. You beat them up, scramble over each other, you crawl and fight for crumbs and then one celebrates in a pit of shit as they hold the shiny prize. They got the golden ticket which means the 'winner' gets a weekend trip to a hotel somewhere facing a body of water. This is the occasional and arbitrary reward in the gameshow so that you'll keep playing. In your desperation you create unintentional moments of comedy. You slip, you fall at work, you get carpal tunnel syndrome and try to continue carrying on, limping, shuffling along. The studio audience laughs. You pop pills, rub ointments, and inject yourself with pain killer so you can continue playing. The finish line keeps moving...maybe you can retire at 60, no 70...no 75...if you're lucky. Keeping running the obstacle course, keep fighting your fellow contestants, trip up the black one, kick the brown one, don't let them win. The studio audience's 'ohhhs and ahhhs.' You keep playing the game. You keep voting for new gameshow hosts but the choice is still the same: your money or your life.
You have been living in this gameshow your entire life. The audience applause is tape recorded. Someone pressed the button every time the phrase 'vital worker' or 'hero' is spoken. They hit the applause button every time 1,000 Americans die every day. Heroes, heroes...applause...now keep going. They'll keep hitting that button so that you know they admire what a great gameshow contestant you are...you are so invested in choosing the 'obstacle course of death' as you race against your working poor contestants. You beat them up, scramble over each other, you crawl and fight for crumbs and then one celebrates in a pit of shit as they hold the shiny prize. They got the golden ticket which means the 'winner' gets a weekend trip to a hotel somewhere facing a body of water. This is the occasional and arbitrary reward in the gameshow so that you'll keep playing. In your desperation you create unintentional moments of comedy. You slip, you fall at work, you get carpal tunnel syndrome and try to continue carrying on, limping, shuffling along. The studio audience laughs. You pop pills, rub ointments, and inject yourself with pain killer so you can continue playing. The finish line keeps moving...maybe you can retire at 60, no 70...no 75...if you're lucky. Keeping running the obstacle course, keep fighting your fellow contestants, trip up the black one, kick the brown one, don't let them win. The studio audience's 'ohhhs and ahhhs.' You keep playing the game. You keep voting for new gameshow hosts but the choice is still the same: your money or your life.
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