The Covid era will slowly change things.
Not quickly because of the profound inertias. We found how fragile everything is. The cracking supply chains. How vulnerable so many are. The rich fled. Most were stuck having to live, and work in deadly environments. Many thousands of workers got sick and died.
It’s become clear. Viscerally clear to all what a production culture values, and it’s not lives. This is having an effect. Slowly it may change how we function as an industrial/post-industrial culture.
Like the Depression showed that we couldn’t leave people to just starve. Social Security, and other very basic havens came from that. More, and better may in time come from this.
No reform or revolution could do this. It’s so big so wrong, and unjust it took a worldwide act of nature to start the change.
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