Extra Credit - NY Times

The NY Times published the following article https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-inequality-history.html about the economic need for small businesses and essential workers. I find it interesting that history is repeating itself to some degree as the wealthiest 1% always seem to get tax breaks, however; they heavily rely on essential workers and the small businesses for the grunt work of things. To sustain an economy, we need local networks and workforces and not rich kings and elitist. The working class and poor people most times feel they do not have the power as the rich do, however, when they come together as a community, they find that they have an immense power to overthrow the rich as the rich relies on them and without them, money does not generate. During the Bronze Age, 50% of the population was killed by plague, wars, fire, and famine. When these rich towns died, two new small communities were built, both fairly and sustainable by all of the people working together, without the ruling of rich kings. This brought a new culture to Greece and there was no reason for the working class/poor to feel the need to overthrow anyone or start a war as supreme unfair rulings did not exist in these harmonious communities the people built. This goes to show that humankind, no matter how far back in history we look, works together, sticks together, and unites in the most turbulent times in the economy. Money cannot buy unity or the power of the human cohesiveness. United people stand and united people fall.

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