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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 23
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      People forced to take jobs they can’t stand. Family/friends moving in together who can’t stand each other. That’s the kind of hardship on the table here. People are going to wish for the McJob economy soon. A lot of what goes away in the next 18 months isn’t coming back.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 23
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      What follows unnatural social distancing is unnatural social closeness. You heard it here first folks.

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        1. Drew Austin‏ @kneelingbus Mar 23
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          This 2007 blog post I remember liking called that the "brother-in-law-on-your-couch vision of the apocalypse" http://casaubonsbook.blogspot.com/2007/08/brother-in-law-on-your-couch-vision-of.html …

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        2. Made in Cosmos  💫 Maria Górska-Piszek‏ @made_in_cosmos Mar 24
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          Why unnatural? This is how people lived for the most of history, I’m sure we’ll find a way to make it work. (Says someone who just moved in with MIL and is learning to resolve family drama fast)

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          "resolving family drama" will be a new and perhaps interesting topic.

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        1. crepuscular dispatch‏ @schakalsynthetc Mar 23
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          hm, "unnatural social closeness due to economic constraint" is pretty much the entire life story of at least fifty percent of my extended family and high school graduating class but I'm sure yr right that it's gonna come as a shock to some

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        1. Jakub‏ @nyogen_ Mar 23
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          Monogamy may come back into fashion for better or worse. Even a mediocre union offers layers of redundancy (economic, psychological).

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        1. Prasanna Andoju‏ @prasanna_andoju Mar 23
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          after the pandemic, people become more caring and cooperative with others as the thought of death is getting engraved on everyone's mind.

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        1.  💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops  💫‏ @generativist Mar 23
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          Conservation of social distance,,,

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        1. Bronwyn Williams‏ @bronwynwilliams Mar 24
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          @dionchang yep.

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