After the coronavirus is over, what ways do you hope society will have changed?

Our entire method of economic organization. Events like this show us how vulnerable we are in crises and how ready large corporations are to be entirely amoral when it comes to profit.

There's an uncomfortably true meme about airlines doing the rounds, but the same can almost be said of any industry right now. They're all completely happy to charge customers through the nose for small concessions, but then a crisis comes along and they're lined up with their hands out for taxpayer money.

Plus, the whole late stage capitalism gaping chasm between the haves and the have nots. The whole living paycheck to paycheck thing in the US and elsewhere, or working for tips to allow employers to pay people a pittance, isn't working so well right now.

I don't mind Bernie Sanders, for his grumpy honesty and focus on helping people, but even his model of economics is sort of outdated these days. I was onboard with Andrew Yang, as an intellectual sort of thing--I'm not American--but not even for the whole universal basic income. He was the only candidate seemingly thinking about the future and willing to think about things, rather than filtering everything through an ideological filter.

Something needs to change, and I really hope that this crisis brings change to the forefront.

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