The political changes brought about by the pandemic have centralized authority — at least so far — but the economic changes have gone the other way.

  JOEL KOTKIN: The Great Office Refusal: Executives say workers are ‘pining’ to return to in-person work. Migration patterns say otherwise. Driven partly by fear of infection, and by the liberating rise of remote work, Americans have been increasingly freed from …

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B IS FOR BITCOIN, C IS FOR CENTRALIZED

https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1033566564400996352   Everyone knows about the Bitcoin price crash. Less well known: the # of transactions peaked at the beginning of this year, and is now lower than 2 years ago. Replacing conventional money, not so much pic.twitter.com/DMaTJyoxHV — Paul …

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