Essential workers are really the mules in all of this.
The whole system works because they have no killer instinct, and succumb to the pressure to keep working for the same pay or a couple more dollars per hour, when their labor is now FAR more valuable with everyone else staying home scared.
Bankers and politicians on the other hand will exploit every bit of leverage they have at all times. Theyll print up new money and devalue that of everyone who already earned money thru laborer. They 100% game the system because they know in situations like this, the proles can be hearded to keep doing what theyre supposed to, with a few commercials about “thanking the essential workers” blah blah blah.
Toilet paper SHOULD cost ten bucks right now. A sandwich should cost 50. But it’s illegal to raise prices in a disaster. Yet it isnt legal for the Fed to print money ANY TIME IT WANTS OR MANDATE A LOCKDOWN
This is why society is stratified. Some people are organized and using killer instinct. Others are a disorganized mess just going where theyre herded.