

Oddly if you look into a lot of them, there were a lot of “small business owners” that aren’t beholden to a company or people connected to someone else’s wealth, or illegal under the table wealth, or other shady things. It has been a while since I looked into it, but it was a combination of personal fiscal stupid decisions, access to rich with money to burn. The tl;dr was basically: they didn’t care what they did to themselves because they thought The Orange Oompa McBurger Loompa was going to anoint them all soldiers of his magic rich person court.
When you have a fatalist/selfish/sure-thing psychology working “outside” the system, you really don’t care if your kids have medication, and you don’t lose your health insurance because you’re taking Ivermectin from the neighborhood vet that sells it under the table.
I’m a bit concerned for their long-term well-being right now. Does tech exist to make a distributed mesh / torrent style clone of them where millions of computers back up fragments of them? I’ll toss a few terabytes at them.