The virus is not discriminatory
Between the rich and the poor
The virus is obviously colourblind
Viciously greedy and unkind
Why then, are stock markets still open
Greed, profiteering from air and ocean
Ivor Steven (c) March 2020
Virus Greed
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G'day, and welcome to my blog site. My name is Ivor Steven, I live in Geelong, Australia. I'm an ex-industrial chemist, and a retired plumber, and a former Carer of my wife(Carole), for 30 years, who suffered from severe MS. I Write poetry about those personal thoughts, throughout and beyond my life as a Carer. I've been blogging for over 2 years, and writing poems for 19 years. Of course a lot of my poems are about my favourite subject Carole, but since I've been blogging my writings have become quite varied, humourous, mystical, observational, and even a few monster/horror poems. View all posts by ivor20
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great question
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They can do it they want to… but corporate greed rules over politicians and leaves goodness rolled up in their toilet paper…….
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It’s this virtual world of ours, everything is done from afar.
I suppose the only comfort in our failing economies is that we’re all in the same boat! 🙂
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We certainly are Sue… and if the powers to be really had some balls, they would shut-down the worlds monetary system, the same as they’ve locked-down the people ….. but who am I to say…. “a common man verses ‘the greed’
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I have to admit that I do not understand Finance not even a tiny jot. But if we’re all in the same boat then it seems evened out! Like I said I am clueless 😀
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You are right Ivor why are they still open…makes sense.
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Greed, Ivor… greed! 😖
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Oh Punam, it saddens me greatly…..
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This may be very naive of me because I do not grasp the stock markets at all….but I did wonder why they didn’t stop the tradings and such until everything settled down. So there wouldn’t be panics like there was back in the ’20’s.
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Yes that’s my, but there is still money to be made by the very, while some smaller companies are going down
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Whoops “by the very rich”
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Beth got there right away
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It does not make sense the stock markets are still working, whilst everyone is made to curb their life others are profiteering at the expense of everyone else, Stock market never made sense to me. Take care
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Agreed!
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Right on, Ivor!
(((HUGS)))
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Some supermarkets and store are actually taking advantage of the situation and raising prices.
Sad side of human nature
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Yes Drew, they’re doing that here too,in Australia,….. funny how corporate greed maintains their lack of common sense and compassion, even though a third of the nation have now lost their jobs ??
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