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We’re clearly not “out of COVID” yet, but a lot of people are essentially behaving like we are, which has a notable list of pros and cons far beyond this article. But this upcoming March will be three years since COVID hit the USA shores. That’s not long enough to figure out all the repercussions from COVID, i.e. the true reckonings of that social period, but I think we can start sketching out a little bit of what we know and might have learned. It was a bomb cyclone in some respects, absolutely.
Professional side: I think a big lesson for people during COVID was that most jobs generally suck, and people should work less. That’s where you hear the “Great Reconsideration” narrative, right? But — people still need checks, and they need checks even more right now, with inflation and all that. So it’s hard to just stop working. Can you do something that you love more? Sure. But that’s easier if you have cash somewhere, or a rich uncle, because scaling up a love project takes years (if not decades) for most people, and you need to bridge gaps in the meantime. I’m personally of the belief that COVID won’t do that much to impact the “future of work,” and said future will be impacted predominantly by declining fertility rates (bad diet, etc.) and automation. Less people and less jobs pushes us way closer to “complete…
