As they say, never waste a good crisis.
Even if all businesses were cash-flow-positive during Covid, the environment is still more unstable.
If govs can print out 2x the money supply in a few years, you want to “cash out” profits as fast as possible instead of reinvesting them.
Might as well as raise prices, work less, and extract more money to these passive assets.
As opposed to previous decades where we only invaded several countries and started a few wars. Or the decades prior US had the draft to send young men against their wilk to fight a war in vietnam. Or the war with china in Korea. Or wolld war?
This is amongst the calmest decades in terms of government actions