Now imagine you’re a software programmer. A midlevel manager. An accountant. These days you sit at your home computer, but your salary is intact. All that money you might have spent on nights out, the European vacation you planned for summer 2020, maybe your wedding? It’s piling up in the bank, along with your $1,200 stimulus check. You’re grumpy but doing fine.
Take another leap and imagine you’re Jeff Bezos. Your net worth, much of it tied up in Amazon stock, has ballooned by over 60% since the pandemic began. You made a cool $70 billion last year. Congratulations!
You get the picture. The COVID-19 recession has struck U.S.
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