> It can't be back to business as usual because that's exactly what has
> changed. There will be no more business as usual. The post WWII American
> dream of working class families attaining stable work, modest housing, and
> education and resulting upward mobility for their kids has just been
> destroyed for at least a generation. Everybody's hoping of course that
> this is not the case and that they will find the rabbit hole that saves
> them from life-long indentured servitude (at best). It will take some
> years before they realize that there are no more rabbit holes or before
> they realize that this is mean dream for humanity. Another thing that has
> changed (and will not change back) is the dispossession of the middle
> class and the reliance upon the middle class and the intelligentsia to
> reconcile the workers to their lot. Both of these changes might result in
> radical mass mobilizations.
>
> We'll see.
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I agree. My reference was to the possibility of mass working class protest
rather than to living standards, and am agnostic like yourself.