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Agree. There was a Reddit thread a day or two ago asking something along the lines of, "How is this pandemic going to change the future forever?" People had s

Agree. There was a Reddit thread a day or two ago asking something along the lines of, "How is this pandemic going to change the future forever?" People had some really wild ideas about how the population at large was going to have these revelations about globalization, the economy, their expenditures, travel, caring about one another, UBI, social norms, voting habits... I don't know if these people were too young to notice around 2008 or what, but my prediction is that people will be only too happy to be able to be served a cheeseburger and a beer in a restaurant or bar, where they will bitch about the past few months for a couple weeks before promptly forgetting any of it happened.

runawaybottle 7y ago
Right, like if you think society is going to ponder ‘hey remember when our society went to shit because we all stopped going to restaurants for a month? Haha, weird, what a fragile economy/social system, wonder if we should figure that one out’ - not gonna happpen.
- AnthonyMouse 7y ago
  This one's a bit interesting, because everybody is staying home. Disproportionately many people, who still have jobs waiting for them when this is over but aren't doing them right now, so right now they have time to organize. That hasn't really happened since the internet has existed.