There is, of course the “to hell with the workers” aspect. Can’t allow the peons to stop giving their labor on the cheap, so that billionaires can profit off it. (for every dollar a worker gets paid for their effort, they make a significantly higher amount of profit for the company–google seems to be failing me on finding the current numbers)
If a lot of people die, their property (homes, land, stock portfolios) end up back on the market, where billionaires (or rather, the S Corps that they use to obfuscate their income and holdings in order to avoid needing to pay any tax) snap them up, increasing the percentage that billionaires own. (noting that real-estate, and stock portfolios are things that tend to appreciate in value, and having possession of them also gives leverage over other companies (stock-holder voting), and municipalities (owning lots of land)). And, if lots of people die off in a short time, or are hit hard financially because of the outbreak, the market will be temporarily glutted, lowering prices, making it even easier for the billionaires to take over. Notice the latest trend in home-buying: Corps buying in order to turn them into rental properties and/or leverage them for equity. (similar to how corporate raiders leverage the corporations they buy to extract the money out). So, the pandemic is a huge opportunity to the obscenely rich.
