[Pearls Before Swine]

Musicians aren’t (or shouldn’t be) the point so much as gig workers in general. With loads and loads of workers paid by taxpayers at their full rate without working at all (via the PPP incentive to small businesses)—while gig workers at best got squat through PUA.

Forget about the regular workers... what about government workers who have been on 3 to 4 month vacations so far, with full pay and benefits? It's oh so Soviet for the government workers to be a special class--salaries, living accomodations, resorts, special stores, hospitals... We're heading that way. A Democrat/Communist revolution would only accelerate it.

[9YearLurker]

Right, with their exorbitant pensions padded day by day.

Our town despots have delighted in keeping its citizenry locked away, while their layabouts do nothing.