But His Highness saved hundreds of thousands of lives by not allowing foreign nationals from China into the US. He essentially closed the front door on that nasty virus.
The virus was already here.
"Penalties?" Like not having any money?
No.
Like being on call seventy hours a week to work twentyfive chosen by an algorithm without regard for sleeping or caring for children- and nowhere you can afford to leave your kid finding out when and how long you are going to be working a few hours before
A miserable job is better than no job.
That depends on the circumstances - in the US, sure: hence (partly) the lack of opportunity in the US.
I know you don't understand. From your worldview it's not possible to understand that sort of opportunity.
There's a "sort of opportunity" on the table in that post? There's a claim that having a job always increases a person's opportunities, but that says nothing about the sort of opportunities involved (wisely), and is so flagrantly wrong anyway that it keeps flipping to read as a sendup.
Willful cluelessness is of course an option, one frequently adopted by rightwing folks trapped in one of their fantasies about how other people live - it's often an effective technique of personal attack, when honest argument isn't promising. But in the present context the troll-block is too ready to hand: if you knew what my world view was, you'd be able to paraphrase my posts.
Are you claiming that the unregulated corporate class has cleverly arranged the world so that money is used as a medium of exchange?
The troll flag unfurls.
(In case you really are that dumb: No.)
Will your next claim be that the unregulated corporate class has cleverly arranged the world so that people live far from where they work, and thus are required to buy expensive cars? Have they cleverly arranged the world so that cattle is raised on farms far from where they live, and thus people are required to buy expensive food, and thus are penalized if they don't work for Amazon?
Willfully misunderstanding and misrepresenting posts like that is a particularly revealing way to troll.
It wasn't that complicated an idea. Living in a country with a history of chattel slavery and a gig/part time service economy whose lack of health care for the working poor is about to kill a few thousand of its citizens in a new way, one might assume a certain familiarity with the reality of the bad job - including its malign effects on opportunity in general.
Clearly not a safe assumption.
That's the effect of this virus currently under discussion in my little crowd, btw: what it has showed the American people about the American people, their fellow citizens of a country ostensibly aspiring to representative government. And it's not all bad - but it sure isn't good. This virus is going to spread and afflict Americans as severely as it would a Second World "developing" country, largely because too many Americans live in a daydream in which their country is automatically functioning well and capable of doing what needs to be done.
You can't fix what you can't see is broken.
