COVID causes pandemic
Pendimic causes lockdown
Lockdown causes boredom
Boredom cause increase in consumption of digital entertainment
Increased demand cause valuation increase
Increasing valuation causes increased ability to raise funding
More money means increased hiring
Higher demand means more higher salaries
Higher salaries causes companies to innovate and offer permanent remote
Permanent remote jobs cause mass relocation from high cost urban areas
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Point is lot of people with different perspectives can predict or capture what's happening or going to happen and cover lot of bases. Understanding New trends and changes have implications on every level of society.
Causality/ correlation
You won't be able to sort all the points of people with insight to the appropriate category, as you'll never get to know the true cause, but you might always see an corelation