Corporate Profits

How Much Is COVID Being Used as a Pretext for Imposing Ever Greater Levels of Social Control?

Large corporations, especially Big Pharma, Silicon Valley and giant online retailers like Amazon.com, have profited enormously from COVID-19, increasing their already massive wealth—and political influence—to record highs not seen since the Gilded Age of the 1890s. To put a fine point on it, “The wealth of the richest 0.00001% of the U.S. now exceeds that […]