It's different now/Rev III

Michael Ramirez, a brilliant political cartoonist, nails it regarding COVID-19 and the US economy as it's different now and will remain so, possibly forever, due to political and financial malfeasance of a different kind altogether.

The hologram of capital that was not really there dissolves before our eyes. That capital, you understand, was our notion of how wealthy we used to be, like, five minutes ago. And now the capital, the money, the mojo of modern life is going-going-gone. The hologram was projected by a fantastically hypercomplex hologram machine jerry-rigged with frauds, swindles, and false promises to pay tomorrow for that proverbial hamburger today. The people running it left the robots in charge and went off to frolic with the likes of Jeffrey Epstein, speaking of the profane. Then, the hologram machine broke and the iridescent image just plumb flickered out.

And so it goes. - K. Vonnegut