That's capitalism for you

As noted earlier, the pandemic is exposing time and again corporate capitalism's many flaws. In this case workers from Amazon, Instacart and Whole Foods are walking off the job because they want unions, adequate protective gear, better pay for the hazardous conditions and paid leave. The protective gear is to safeguard not only the workers but customers, since the workers could transfer the virus onto purchases.

But the companies do not care that the workers protest and walk out, or that inadequate safety precautions might contaminate customers. Instead they are taking advantage of the rising unemployment situation and just replacing the workers with people desperate for any job and any rate under the same conditions. This exactly exemplifies corporate capitalism at its very core. Welcome to America, where our new motto is just go ahead and die already.