The worst of times; the best of times

Have you noticed that all the folks telling you you gotta stay home have cushy jobs where they can work from home?

While this plague is the worst of times, it's the best of times for folks who know how to make hay under the pandemic sun. Check out this headline; How billionaires got $637 billion richer during pandemic.

And it's not just billionaires. 

This pandemic summer has been the busiest in memory for building contractors around here. Real estate is booming. Folks who can afford it aren't shy about building new homes.

And don't cry too many tears for the front-line workers. Any nurse who's been working double shifts for the last six months is having paydays like never before in their careers. They're buying those new builds.

There's a Harley dealership in Pennsylvania having its best year ever. Seems every other yokel in the county signed over their covid check as a down payment back in the spring. Most of those purchasers were operating on the "we're fucked anyway" premise. The world is going for a shit anyway, so I might as well get a couple of months tooling around on the Harley of my dreams.

By the fall, most of these customers had defaulted on their loans, and now the dealer gets paid by the lenders to repo all those bikes. 

Business has never been better!