Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Dozens of downtown Chicago businesses shuttered" video.

  1. Mini-experiment in fascism. Notice how the big-box stores were the only ones allowed to remain open, while Mom & Pop's were kept on lock-down? Huge transfer of wealth to big companies from small companies? Big Box stores played along and were big enough to hire "compliance technicians?" (You know. The masked mask-bouncer at the door and the drone running around with spray sanitizer and a dirty wash cloth?" But now we see that that is all temporary. Eventually, the big companies get a sharp stick in the eye, as well, and the situation becomes untenable for ALL. In general, bit companies love the government interventions, because however onerous they are for the big company, they're twice or three or four or more times more onerous for a small company, so it weeds out the competition. Also, the big companies are rich enough to exercise the political clout needed to make sure the new regulations or mandates don't kill THEM off. Usually what we see, when we don't see legalized theft trumping all else, is the big companies are guaranteed they'll survive, if they adopt increasingly stupid and inefficient bureaucracies that eventually bury the big company with red tape and incompetence. It just usually takes many years, and the CEOs who embraced the intervention retire as heroes, before the big company crumbles of its own weight and inefficiency. t never turns out well, but usually it takes longer for everyone to feel the pinch. COVID and BLM madness accelerated the entire process. Mom & Pop aren't viable, and within a year, neither is the big box.
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