According to The Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University, the poverty rate in the United States rose to 14.1 percent in May. Best estimates say that over 580,000 Americans are unhoused at any given night, although the latest homelessness data is from January 2020 and does not reflect the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Meanwhile, according to Forbes’ annual billionaire list, eight of the top ten wealthiest Americans saw their net worth increase last year. At the same time, millions struggled with product shortages and price increases while avoiding a plague. These innovative and clever titans of capitalism spent most of the pandemic complaining about social distancing measures, becoming off-brand astronauts, and not-commenting on or downplaying their history with sex traffickers Jeffery Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.