One of the great fallacies of the pandemic is the notion that "we’re all in this together". This tends to get trotted out by somebody with a lot of followers from the comfort of a well-staffed Italianate palazzo, and it would probably be met with something of a raised eyebrow from a day labourer walking home to his ancestral village from the slums of Mumbai.

The contrast in fortunes is similarly broad in the corporate world, with many a sector reeling and others making out like bandits...

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