Don't look at me, I don't have that kind of money.
From Time Magazine, September 14, 2020:
It is easy to see how such a deadly virus, and the draconian measures required to contain it, might spark an economic depression. But look straight into the eyes of the elephant in the room, and it is impossible to deny the many ways in which our extreme inequality—an exceptionally American affliction—has made the virus more deadly and its economic consequences more dire than in any other advanced nation. Why is our death toll so high and our unemployment rate so staggeringly off the charts? Why was our nation so unprepared, and our economy so fragile? Why have we lacked the stamina and the will to contain the virus like most other advanced nations? The reason is staring us in the face: a stampede of rising inequality that has been trampling the lives and livelihoods of the vast majority of Americans, year after year after year.
Of course, America’s chronic case of extreme inequality is old news. Many other studies have documented this trend, chronicled its impact, and analyzed its causes. But where others have painted the picture in terms of aggregate shares of GDP, productivity growth, or other cold, hard statistics, the RAND report brings the inequality price tag directly home by denominating it in dollars—not just the aggregate $50 trillion figure, but in granular demographic detail. For example, are you a typical Black man earning $35,000 a year? You are being paid at least $26,000 a year less than you would have had income distributions held constant. Are you a college-educated, prime-aged, full-time worker earning $72,000? Depending on the inflation index used (PCE or CPI, respectively), rising inequality is costing you between $48,000 and $63,000 a year. But whatever your race, gender, educational attainment, urbanicity, or income, the data show, if you earn below the 90th percentile, the relentlessly upward redistribution of income since 1975 is coming out of your pocket.....
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In for a penny....here's a gift from that amazing 1972 Playboy interview with Saul Alinsky:
"Rub raw the sores of social discontent"
“The despair is there; now it’s up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change. We’ll give them a way to participate in the democratic process, a way to exercise their rights as citizens and strike back at the establishment that oppresses them, instead of giving in to apathy. We’ll start with specific issues — taxes, jobs, consumer problems, pollution — and from there move on to the larger issues: pollution in the Pentagon and the Congress and the board rooms of the megacorporations. Once you organize people, they’ll keep advancing from issue to issue toward the ultimate objective: people power. We’ll not only give them a cause, we’ll make life goddamn exciting for them again — life instead of existence. We’ll turn them on....
The guiding principle of every community organizer since Alinsky first mentioned the concept in the 1930's.
Unfortunately there are no standalone pitchfork manufacturers* so no derivative plays are available.
And, well, in a burst of enthusiasm back in 2009 someone (ahem) went long physical pitchforks and, well, what with warehouse storage space getting so expensive, if anyone is of a mind to rile up the masses I know where they can get the quintessential implement of social unrest.
Cheap.
*In December 2008 I announced a research initiative:
Goldman Sachs’s Tax Rate Drops to 1%, or $14 Million
...Meanwhile I shall be doing due diligence on an implement with the light weight of the DuraFork but with the aperture making ability of steel tines.By March 2009 we thought the idea was catching on:
Zeitgeist: London Protesters Threaten Bankers, Evoke Executions
In April '09 I reported back on the due diligence:
...Most of the pitchfork manufacturers are smaller, privately held companies*.