From Proof of Health to UBI: COVID-19 Changes Everything

From domestic manufacturing to economic nationalization by proxy to proof of health on a blockchain, a preview of the decade to come.

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Joe McCann currently works in cloud and AI at Microsoft and has spent decades in tech, crypto and open source communities. He recently wrote a piece called “A New, New World Order” about the second and third order effects of COVID-19.

In this conversation, Joe and NLW discuss:

Localism and the beginning of the end of globalization
The return of domestic manufacturing
The "Roaring 20s" of Inflation
The inevitability of Universal Basic Income in response to inflation
QE infinity and the U.S.’s nationalization by proxy
National health care as national security and why microbes are this decade’s terrorists
Proof-of-health, and why it’s likely to be implemented on a blockchain

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