Covid kicked off a massive change in the way we should and must understand government itself. Every bit of evidence we have is that its growth and activities are fueled by subsidy-hungry industry, a key point hardly mentioned at all in any textbook: * Banks and finance pushed the money creation and zero interest rates; * Congress voted the astronomical spending as a quid pro quo for industry campaign donations; * Pharma plotted the entire show to recruit new customers for its experimental technology; * Online commerce cheered as people used stimulus payments to stock up on everything; * Online learning platforms thrilled at the boost in their customer base; * Legacy media loved stay-at-home eyeballs on their programming and advertising; * Private equity seized upon the economic struggles to buy out myriad smaller companies and homeowners who felt the pinch; * Big box franchises were overjoyed to shut their smaller competitors in the name of disease control. And so on it went, with large industry as the main beneficiary of the largest wealth transfer ever recorded in the history of man. Government was merely the handmaiden of this giant plot.