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What will your New Normal look like?
We’re never going back to the old normal, so….
The economy is on fire. President Biden is killing it. Covid-19 is looking like it will be a tamed but ever-present enemy by late summer. We’re attacking racism and police brutality in courts and in cities, rewriting laws and training protocols. We’re accepting that only a massive wave of government spend will rebuild our caved-in middle class, and that without this middle class we really don’t have a country. We’re pulling out of Afghanistan, realizing it’s smarter to admit our mistakes than to throw more money and human sacrifice at a horribly unsolvable situation that is not our own. We’re accepting that big tech is evil and way too powerful, but for all its evil, tech is helping America lead the way, and is creating enormous wealth — for the few — and the world is crackling with exciting innovations that will continue to improve how we live, how we get healthy, how we make money, how we connect with each other and how we have fun. Admit it — there’s a lot of very good stuff happening. And… there’s the bad stuff.
Big tech kills jobs. We know. At this rate, we’ll keep vaporizing jobs — delivery jobs, warehouse jobs, call center jobs, retail checker jobs and more.
As jobs disappear, automation technologies and Ai’s and robots will do more, and the money…