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by bonzini 17 days ago
I am not sure how lockdowns (millions of people not able to work) could be driven by profits.
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...there have been dozens and dozens of published papers and now a whole conference on this topic. If you seriously haven't considered (let alone heard about) this, a simple google scholar search could have remedied this in the time it took you to comment that you "are not sure".

Here's a talk from the Collateral Global conference (there are several other talks that address the intersection of labor, lockdowns, and profit motives): https://collateralglobal.org/article/panel-2-the-impact-of-c...