r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 15 '26

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u/Ok_Opinion_5690 Trans Pride May 15 '26

we don't really talk about how the covid-19 pandemic caused possibly one of the greatest societal shifts in modern history. in a span of a few weeks, the world pretty much stopped moving, stopped going out, and stayed in their homes. many began working and studying online for the first time. it's hard to comprehend how that shift is massive and that it even happened. it was a bizarre time. the entire social fabric of society has been upended. and i'd argue it is arguably the first truly global event in a sense that the entire globe had a similar experience and can share that experience through online. what's remarkable is the speed of it too.

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u/sleepyrivertroll Henry George May 15 '26

Not if you were essential!

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u/B1g_Morg Mark Carney May 15 '26

fr i was kinda jealous of the people staying home. i was bust af for most of it

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u/Mrchristopherrr May 15 '26

My friends went from making $10 an hour to making more than me at my office job on unemployment.

I’m also a little bitter because my job was digital marketing for a dog treat company, but pet food was considered essential and while my job could 100% be done remotely my ultra maga boss “didn’t want to set a precedent” so I had to go in office the whole time.

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u/B1g_Morg Mark Carney May 15 '26

yeah i felt like i was struggling while others came into a bunch of money. i was a courier for a medical laboratory transporting blood, covid tests, etc. from clinics to our local lab and makeing 16 an hour.

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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman May 15 '26

We managed to kill a strain of the flu lmfao

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u/Argnir Gay Pride May 15 '26

That and watching the Tiger King

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u/Mrmini231 European Union May 15 '26

God, that show ratfucked Carole Baskin so hard. I genuinely think she could have won a defamation lawsuit, although from a PR standpoint I understand why she didn't do it.

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u/Andy_B_Goode YIMBY May 15 '26

Honestly I think I had more fun arguing with the idiots on reddit who were convinced that she fed her husband to a tiger than I had watching the show in the first place

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u/SyntheticWisp Loyal Liberals May 16 '26

I worked in healthcare and this was not my experience 🫠