The material interest is not shutting things down. If people aren't going out to eat or shopping or whatever, then that's less money. It jams up the demand which jams up production and causes problems (under capitalism). They needed to buy time to adjust to covid. If you just shut everything down, they lose money while having to spend on covid protections. If you let them stay open they can slowly build up their covid stuff while still making money.
That goes into a cultural thing in America that's very closely tied to material interests. The cultural thing is that the government can't do stuff. It's just untoward. It's oppressive, it's literally 1984. Because since the late 60s everyone has been pumped full of libertarian bullshit. The government telling business when they can be open and what to do while they're open is something that's been fought against for decades if not centuries.
Another material thing is the petite bourgeois and the working class can only socialize and live their lives through consumption. Consumption means leaving the house and seeing a movie, going shopping, traveling, dining out, etc. They're only at home as much as they need to be, like for sleep and bathing. Workers have a lot less time to do this stuff so they don't do it as much, but they do it. The petite bourgeois do it a lot. The wealthy have enough amenities at home and live in such luxury that they don't have to do it. So people get mad when they can't go consume. There some justification in that anger, but only because it's a result of a much bigger problem with society and not because the guberment is too big.
Trust in medical authorities erodes when most people can't afford healthcare. They don't go see doctors. The doctors they do see charges the shit out of them for basic stuff and are usually bad doctors. Racism is responsible for mistrust of the medical establishment among marginalized groups. Plus we've seen why you shouldn't trust them. They fuck around and say dumb stuff out of political expedience and then change their tune when it suits them. People aren't going to take the pandemic seriously when the special educated class that informs everyone doesn't.
People don't trust the government because it's ran by capitalists who do everything they can to make government fail at everything it tries to do. Because the capitalists don't want government to function and they don't want people thinking the government can just command capital.
It's really the perfect storm of different things that are all related to the mode of production. It's not one single bad actor with purely material interests pulling all the strings. It's a bunch of people with aligned but separate interests doing what they think is correct and good. But they're wrong. That's why you need social science and not just vibes.
The material interest is not shutting things down. If people aren't going out to eat or shopping or whatever, then that's less money. It jams up the demand which jams up production and causes problems (under capitalism). They needed to buy time to adjust to covid. If you just shut everything down, they lose money while having to spend on covid protections. If you let them stay open they can slowly build up their covid stuff while still making money.
That goes into a cultural thing in America that's very closely tied to material interests. The cultural thing is that the government can't do stuff. It's just untoward. It's oppressive, it's literally 1984. Because since the late 60s everyone has been pumped full of libertarian bullshit. The government telling business when they can be open and what to do while they're open is something that's been fought against for decades if not centuries.
Another material thing is the petite bourgeois and the working class can only socialize and live their lives through consumption. Consumption means leaving the house and seeing a movie, going shopping, traveling, dining out, etc. They're only at home as much as they need to be, like for sleep and bathing. Workers have a lot less time to do this stuff so they don't do it as much, but they do it. The petite bourgeois do it a lot. The wealthy have enough amenities at home and live in such luxury that they don't have to do it. So people get mad when they can't go consume. There some justification in that anger, but only because it's a result of a much bigger problem with society and not because the guberment is too big.
Trust in medical authorities erodes when most people can't afford healthcare. They don't go see doctors. The doctors they do see charges the shit out of them for basic stuff and are usually bad doctors. Racism is responsible for mistrust of the medical establishment among marginalized groups. Plus we've seen why you shouldn't trust them. They fuck around and say dumb stuff out of political expedience and then change their tune when it suits them. People aren't going to take the pandemic seriously when the special educated class that informs everyone doesn't.
People don't trust the government because it's ran by capitalists who do everything they can to make government fail at everything it tries to do. Because the capitalists don't want government to function and they don't want people thinking the government can just command capital.
It's really the perfect storm of different things that are all related to the mode of production. It's not one single bad actor with purely material interests pulling all the strings. It's a bunch of people with aligned but separate interests doing what they think is correct and good. But they're wrong. That's why you need social science and not just vibes.