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Capital’s interests on your productive labor happen to coincide with your interest to not die a horrible death. They want covid done so they can keep skimming off your excess labor value, you want covid done so you and your family do not croak.
Thank you. This is it.
while you are correct in your analysis, capitalists are rarely unified in their thinking. which is why the bourgeois state exists: to mediate conflict between factions of the ruling class in the overall interest of Capital. the vast majority of capitalists threw tons of money into creating a vaccine as quickly as possible to get back to business as usual, as they saw this as the best path back to profits and growth, as technological solutions to the problems capitalism creates is what has kept them in power for centuries now.
but there is one faction of capitalist class funding all the anti-mask anti-vaxx nutjob ivermectin shit coming out, which is how it has spread so widely. and they are doing this because they thought the best way to return to profit/growth/normalcy was to try and downplay the pandemic and go on as usual and just let people die and ignore it. they began this line of reasoning before the vaccines were completed, as some were saying it could be years or decades before a viable vaccine was ready to use. that’s why they pushed junk like hydroxychloroquine, ideas that covid is no worse than the flu, etc… and now that faction is getting lots of people killed, but they don’t care. it’s not enough dead workers to disrupt profits more than the lockdowns did, so they are fine with it. hell both factions of the capitalist class would be fine with it if it wasn’t straining hospital capacity. i’m sure even the pro-vaccine majority would be fine with it if we just built more hospitals and ICU wards so the capacity wasn’t strained, and then went back to business as usual.
Conservativism is a disease and horse paste is the cure
Nah, I think it’s more like…
If you were a cop, you’d pretty much just beat peoples’ asses whenever you wanted , right (of course, they gotta be “the right kinda people” to keep it all acceptable)? And there’s like a 50/50 chance you’d absolutely do it if you were a cop, cause you’re the physical fist that backs up the state; you’re a violent scumbag and that’s just what you do.
If you’re a weird billionaire you exploit everything you can; loopholes, institutions, resources, and, of course, people.
So billionaires are exploitation incarnate (like police are state violence incarnate), it’s just *what they do. You exploit people for labor or whatever other sick shit you want, because you’re part of the web of relations that exists above the market and influences it, and essentially nobody is gonna stop you. You’re why all of these institutions of state violence exit, to protect your “right” to exploit people
at the very beginning they should have offered a $2000 check to get the Standard Vaccine while also offering the exact same shot as the Elite Business Tier Inoculation, priced at $200. We’d have been at 80% vaccinated in no time
I probably would have been less likely to get it if it wasn’t free though
At one point Pfizer was semi-ironically considered the “premium” vaccine by people who had nothing better to do than group themselves by something arbitrary.
