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The new normal seems exactly like the old normal except everything good is delayed, costs more, and involves more paperwork, and everything bad is accelerated and less containable by paperwork or money. And no deep lessons have been learned.
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Realized this suddenly last month and it’s been bumming me out since. We’ve learned a bunch of narrow and contentious facts about pandemics, but no consciousness-raising things. Everybody’s decided events prove they were right about everything all along.
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A big historic event is like a very hurried package tour on an airport layover in a foreign city. Grab a souvenir, take a bunch of photos, maybe review them later if you get around to it.
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Idk, the whole “certain sectors are struggling to maintain enough workers to properly function” feels like a bit of a paradigm shift in how Americans in general view their relationship to work. Feel like it could lead to something.
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agree but there's something odd going on in the labor force. something not captured by stats or analyses so far. I can't figure it out.