Let's abstract from this: it takes a wall - or at least a barrier to one's field of vision, in the case of one way windows - to make the mirror functional. The reflexive nature of the mirror is reliant on light travel reaching its limit in a given direction, and then bouncing back.
In the same way it often takes a terminus to bring about the widespread revelation: it takes a king starving his people to bring about revolution in the streets. Or it takes the rule of capital to plunge a majority of its population into disease, amidst a pandemic that was otherwise manageable, to unmask the beast.
So these huge businesses are suing and lobbying their way to mass immiseration? Well poverty can still be fought and negotiated, so we can rationalize that these businesses are just protecting trade secrets and exercising free speech. Say, manufacturers, insurers, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies striving to keep equipment, medicine, and treatment costs up to protect their business model, for example.
Now these same huge businesses are suing and lobbying for their own provincial interests amidst an unfolding pandemic? Now the question is: what the fuck are you doing? As it should be.
Of course these businesses, these corporations, are just doing what they have always been doing. They correctly perceive that they must work together to prevent the majority from experiencing the possibility of something better. But then, what happens when all of that suppressing, or oppressing, reaches bedrock, and the exploited have nowhere else to go? The revelation there lies at the terminus. If not in this particular pandemic, then in something comparable.
You can only take more than you put in if there is something still to take. And historically, the tendency has been that the taking gathers momentum and cannot easily be reversed. And then once you get to that wall, all of that energy going in that direction must now go back the way it had come.
