I was referring to shutting down the economies of entire states. Propagandists such as yourself have convinced people doing such a thing is consequence free, and we are seeing that it isn't. Business isn't about greedy people getting more money. That's 1/100th the market. It is majorally people taking care of their needs and earning an income by taking care of other people. Shut it down and no one is taken care of. Enable investment and more of people's needs are taken care of to the point that the marginal need taken care of verges on luxury, which you hate. But you are soon going to find out that luxury and absolute need are all on a continuum and are taken care of by the same systems. (The ones you hate).

Besides, to the extent that people feel like they are on more of a treadmill than the past, that is due to the Federal Reserve. See, when they print money and give it to the banks at below natural interest, it is a wealth transfer to the banks. You can see this in the more absolute case where the interbank lending rate is at zero real interest rate (a line we've already crossed). If I handed you a loan for $5 at zero interest and said there are no term limit on the loan (pay me back when you want to), did I just give you a loan or $5? When the Fed prints trillions of dollars and gives it to the banks it doesn't create anything.

So having a dollar is having some degree of command over the goods that are available in the market. When you work you add to the market pool, and you get some dollars. Then you can extract from the pool what you like. When a bunch of money is created and handed to some 5 or so parties (banks with a relationship with the Federal Reserve), all it does is shift the share of command of the available goods from some to the banks. So essentially you now have to rent that purchasing power back.

I don't know how you latestagecapitalism folks don't oppose the Fed. You'd have to be stupid not to. The problem isn't capitalism. It's that people who hate natural markets insist on fucking around with it making it worse. You all automatically think any deviation from a natural market is automatically a good thing, but it's not. Sometime we need to talk about how minimum wage creates homelessness. You can see it empirically in geographically similar towns and states.

Your problem is y'alls obsession with false consciousness. When someone tells you what the relevant criticisms of a policy are and why it will backfire you just tune them out as being pro-capitalist.

Shutdowns, Fed, Minimum wage (which if you look at it historically it was intended to be an economic Jim Crow so it's not even that weird to think it could harm people). You keep making the little guy's life worse, because you don't understand enough about economics to even comprehend how your ideas could be harmful.