We are slaves and we owe that slavery to The Oligarchy which owns and controls our Goverment. It's not going to get better or get fixed until it crashes and burns and we rebuild it.
Mock me if you wish but we have no choice but to comply or perish. We play The Game their Way or perish. I'll bide my time and survive as best I can.
VooDoo
The Oligarchy bribes our politicians to rig the rules/laws in favor of the politicians and the Oligarchs. That needs to be stopped. But it is not the politicians who make the Oligarchs fat, it is us.
Amazon asked for financial support from the taxpayer as part of the Covid-19 relief. Let that sink in for a while. The richest fucker in the world asks for hand-outs to his company that is profiting from the shutdown of face-to-face industries. Should you buy one more thing from this company or work one more hour there? (I stopped buying from Amazon 5 years ago because I believed that any monopoly is bad)
Compare that to one of my neighbor's engineering company who made it a point early in their history to always have at least 4 month of salaries in the bank. He makes about 33% with engineering services that continue remotely right now. The manufacturing crew of his company gets currently paid for waiting it out. When they get back to work, the engineers will get extra paid vacation as business demand allows. That's a place you want to do business with and work for.
Vote with your ballot, your wallet, AND your 'punch card'.
As far as your personal challenges are concerned, do not worry about your job. Look at the work you do, the value you create. What skills are you using? Who or what else could benefit from these skills? Now is also the time to invest in continuing education, a new suit, a brushed-up resume, etc.
When I look back at the instances where I got laid off or outright fired, they were gifts to get me out of my complacency and moving towards new opportunities I should have pursued earlier. At one job I joked that 60% of my paycheck was for pain and suffering, the other 40% for what I actually did. Why did I need to wait until the layoff?
"It's not going to get better or get fixed until it crashes and burns and we rebuild it."
We may be closer to this than most think. This pandemic will fundamentally alter the world, this country, and the way we do business. We should change our personal lives accordingly. Instead of itching to go back to yesterday, we should search for the opportunities of tomorrow that meet future needs as well as our desires and dreams.
Let's say you are a travel agent. Should you worry about when you can peddle cruise vacations on a floating Petri dish again or should you ask how people could recreate without exposing themselves to the agonies of airline travel and cattle herding?
Also good riddance to cubicle farms and mega gyms. Who in his right mind steps from the corporate treadmill onto a gym treadmill, then spends hours in the car, just to devour junk food in front of the TV? Interrupting this routine by getting wasted in a bar and getting laid here and there does not make this lifestyle any more desirable. This is not life, it's death in monthly installments.