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by rlucas 2165 days ago
> the coronavirus effect on the economy has just demonstrated that economic growth is fundamentally not impacted much by around 1/3 of all jobs. The labor product and consumption activity of that 33.3% just doesn’t matter.

If you're right about that we're into revolution territory. If COVID reveals that we've built an economy that not only doesn't care, but doesn't even register the existence of 1/3 of the population, the body politic may have had a poison dose.