The pandemic profiteers are cashing in. The Wall Street Journal reports that "48 top executives have collected more than $200 million each from stock sales, nearly four times the average number of insiders from 2016 through 2020." The insiders know a market crash is coming. 1/ 
According to the WSJ, "[I]nsiders have sold a record $63.5 billion in shares through November...The technology sector has led with $41 billion in sales across the entire market." The article quotes Wharton School Professor Daniel Taylor, who calls the selling "unprecedented." 2/
Elon Musk has sold $10b worth of grotesquely overvalued Tesla stock (while denouncing proposals to tax unrealized capital gains). Other big sellers include Google's Brin and Page. Mark Zuckerberg has dumped $4.5b worth of stock. 3/
Their socially obscene personal wealth has been made possible by criminal policies responsible for the deaths of 800,000 people in the US and millions more globally. Changing policy requires ending the dictatorship of the rich and the expropriation of their illicit wealth. 4/4
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