It's a little bit more. It's the conflict that's been simmering for 25 years, between the "Online" world and the "Offline" world, coming to a head. All the demographic shifts rolled into one, with a bit of global warming on top of it.
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Replying to @oliverbeige @Fatalmeh
You are suggesting generational ~ war of ‘the worlds’ scenario, all of us at the front line? 21st century spin on survival, fittest etc
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Replying to @GoodMortgageGuy @Fatalmeh
I was about 25 when I moved to the US in 1995, to the University of Illinois where the web browser had been invented about a year earlier. I was so excited about the new toy that I decided to study its effects on the economy, and the wider world. So I'm exactly on the cusp.
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So I've been watching the generations adopt to the tool, and the concurrent trends of global travel and global economy.* My generation, Xers, is online for work, boomers, barely, and millennials don't know anything else.
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Since at least 2009 I've known that we're headed for a Malthusian shock, since the "Online" world started to draw more and more resources out of the economy. The thing is, we can't operate without a physical world.
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is the US economy losing manufacturing overseas while retaining a burgeoning tech industry an example of what you mean?
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Collapse of the production base in the US is absolutely one of those seismic shifts. There are four areas that have benefited from the Internet: Bos/NY/Wash, Silicon Valley and SoCal, Seattle, and for some reason Minneapolis (healthcare?). All others suffered.
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Replying to @oliverbeige @_StevenFan and
You can connect them all to attention/information industries. Boston = education, NY = finance, DC = politics, SV & Seattle = tech, Los Angeles = entertainment. The physical "offline" industries got left behind.
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Now we can watch these industries retrench to full-time online: wfh, zoom classes, assuming that the physical stuff works itself out. But that's also people who we expect that they expose themselves to deliver our boxes. But Amazon is about to turn off its supply chain too.
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my summary after decades of winner-take-all effects created a true economic global village, pandemics cause industries to retreat to online connectivity or to be cut off entirely if not geographically adjacent
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