The Covid-19 pandemic has created a glorious opportunity for politicians and experts. Local politicians, the state and the city in the United States and the city and barangay in the Philippines, have earned a fortune, strength and fame.
The key to the deal, however, is that the pandemic has the world, at least for the foreseeable future.
Much of the adjustments we face are aimed at businesses and in general. Many jobs in developed countries will not return after the crisis is over. Millions of small businesses have already been destroyed, decimated by Fed policies that favor big business. In addition, there was a wave of automation before the pandemic that will continue in the future.
A year ago, low-income people were asking for and striking for a higher minimum wage in the US Now that they are unemployed and especially in fast food, robots are the future.
The fact is that the rise of globalization has placed the interests of giant companies above those of the national economy; However, one fact is also that the only way to compete globally is by lowering production prices across the economy. send production abroad to countries like Southeast Asia and China or automate.
But China’s largest personal employer, Foxconn, which manufactures the iPhone, has installed more than a million robots. Finally, “you don’t have enough jobs to look for [cheap] labor,” says Rodney Brooks, an Australian robotics company. automation and robots come in. “
However, job adjustments are only one component of the situation. American political science professor Andrew Latham teaches plagues, pandemics and politics in his course. “Pandemics have a tendency to shape human affairs in three ways. First, they can profoundly replace society. Second, they can disappoint basic economic structures and can ultimately influence the struggles for force between nations.
He cites that antonine’s plague, which wiped out at least 25% of the population of the Roman Empire, caused a transformation of devout culture. Christianity had only 40,000 adherents in the Empire. A generation after the end of the plague of Cyprian, Christianity had the dominant faith of the empire.
Motivated by Christian charity and an ethic of caring for the sick, the Christian communities of the empire were willing to provide care. The pagan Romans chose to flee the plague epidemics or isolate themselves in the hope of saving themselves from infection. in Europe in 1347 and at the end of the pandemic, labour shortages created a flexible market for workers, breaking the servitude and slavery of centuries past.
Until the plague of Justinian from 542 to 755 AD, the Mediterranean region was unified through trade, politics, faith and culture. Rome was paralyzed by the plague, but it was also its rival Persia Sassanid. Neither can simply take credit for each other. But the Islamic caliphate of Rashidun in Arabia was hardly affected by the plague. Caliph Abu Bakr temporarily conquered the entire Sassanid Empire and expelled Rome from the Levant, Caucasus, Egypt and North Africa.
Latham leaves us with this thought: “But just as the plagues of the afterlife have done the global thing we live in now, this scourge will push back what it pobleded through our grandchildren and great-grandchildren. “
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