Newminimalists survive and thrive in 2020.
In 2020 the world took a pause from "business as usual" [see photo] and now it is time to unmask life on this planet.
We are heading into an era of the "new abnormal" and this will likely last for a long time. The changes we are about to experience all around the world are long overdue. The prime movers in these changes are public and private debt, healthcare inadequacies, incompetent leadership in government and private entities, financial services that inflate assets and deflate returns to labour, consumption-based spending as the driver an unsustainable global economy, political causes that misallocate essential resources into deadened projects, and more.
Clearly at the individual level of life there will be dramatic changes in response to the world ripping-off the Coronavirus mask. Individuals will become more frugal, thrifty, and cautious when using credit. Individuals will change habits as they substitute goods and services as they seek lower prices. Individuals will change beliefs as they downsize their homes, rent rather than buy, avoid mortgages despite low low interest rates, and choose quality over quantity.
Changes to communities will be structural as governments around the globe beta test programs such as Universal Basic Income, modern monetary theory as they seek to induce inflation to combat deflation, more spending at the local level than was common over the past 50 years, infrastructure spending by companies that include the roll-out of 5G networks, and more and more.
Richard
My mission is to lead individuals beyond their version of this Orwellian world. The way I plan to do that is to instruct them in the simple disciplines that change the ways they separate their needs from other peoples' wants and therefore alter their habits and beliefs.
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