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📣 cloudking

Problems to solve in a post-virus world?


What are new problems to solve in the aftermath of the Coronavirus?


  👤 mdorazio Accepted Answer ✓
I'm with samizdis on this one. Covid is a black swan event. Solving problems unique to it (like toilet paper and ventilator shortages, mass work from home implementation, etd.) is probably an economic non-starter as a result. Instead we should be looking at solving the other problems that it exposed globally:

- Fragility of single-country supply chains

- Lack of a real social safety nets in many countries

- Lack of focus on personal hygiene on a day-to-day basis

- Non-sustainability of debt-based economic growth

- Lack of childcare choices for many families, especially when both parents have to work to pay the bills

- Disconnect between local wages and local cost of living in many cities for non-rich workers

Etc.


👤 samizdis
Call me old-fashioned, but how about using the covid-19 crisis and its eventual aftermath to reflect on how we might solve the existing problems that plague us? Inequality, injustice, poverty and all the other usual suspects.