Originally Posted by
JohnKreg
This: "Technology and work-at-home changes have eliminated geography" is definitely not generally true - as you may have observed in your own domain of endeavor. We are mammals who want to smell each other before we really trust each other. We can be organized into companies at a distance, but the work that matters most takes place in the trenches and there, real, not virtual face-to-face interactions will always rule/out compete the alternatives.
It's going to be a painful period for NY and other cities, but as soon as it is possible to operate without the physical distance, folks will rush back in.
This disease is exposing a lot in very concrete ways about how we are organized and how wealth and privilege are distributed - for good and ill - in the face of a universally shared threat. One might hope that this could lead to more fairness, in the long run. Of course, if one fundamentally models ones reality on a lifeboat with limited carrying capacity and a population that far exceeds it, one will not see the possibility of such an outcome.