The slight majority of Americans say they are worse off than four years ago, while their assessments of the U.S. economy are subpar and inflation remains a key concern.
Covid was super miserable because some operational ties have formed on top levels of bureaucracies and businesses, which weren’t there before it. And the covid tech bubble added to that. And the data collected by everyone using things like Zoom and Teams and other such, and probably accessible to governments, - owch.
It’s a bit like neural connections in our brains, say, an ADHD person has severe lack of some of them, but if they take meds when they are still developing, some subset of those will actually form and make them more capable for various tasks.
This consolidation has really accelerated our time’s remake of something like 30 years war.
Covid was super miserable because some operational ties have formed on top levels of bureaucracies and businesses, which weren’t there before it. And the covid tech bubble added to that. And the data collected by everyone using things like Zoom and Teams and other such, and probably accessible to governments, - owch.
It’s a bit like neural connections in our brains, say, an ADHD person has severe lack of some of them, but if they take meds when they are still developing, some subset of those will actually form and make them more capable for various tasks.
This consolidation has really accelerated our time’s remake of something like 30 years war.