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Derek Thompson of The Atlantic on the Post-Corona workforce

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When the global economy came to a halt this spring, tens of millions of American workers found themselves working from home - and millions more found themselves unemployed. Derek explains the potential long term implications of an economy with a large “telepresence.”

How might this shift out of offices and even out of cities affect America’s cultural and economic future? Dan and Derek sit down to discuss what a Post Corona world might look like.

Host:
Dan Senor

Discussion (4)

  • Banned Member@HangOn

    Writing for The Atlantic = being clueless. So I don't think I'll waste my time.

  • Postmodern Hoplite@PostmodernHoplite

    One of Ricochet's design features is that it offers an opportunity to hear voices and opinions from the other side of the political/social/cultural spectrum not otherwise readily available. Perhaps this podcast is a good example?

    I have not listened to Dan Senor's podcast before now, and I'm not particularly interested in the thoughts of a regular writer forThe Atlantic. I suspect Derek Thompson is a run-of-the-mill Progressive, and therefore is unlikely to present any content I am not already exposed to in the mainstream media. Furthermore, if I want to know what The Atlantic is saying, I can read The Dispatch.

    However, I'll give it a try, and then decide whether or not to "like" the OP.

  • davenr321@davenr321

    Ok, I did listen. Is Derek Thompson over 21? I ask out loud because he seems to have recently discovered blogging, and he believes that more people in the streets, enjoying themselves on Avenue C (where? At the Zum Schneider or whatever German place, or the Cuban place where my wife swears she got food poisoning ? Or at the C Town?) equates to less crime as there’s too many people around. Has he not heard of pickpockets? To me, it seems he doesn’t grasp how more police, aggressively taking more perps off the street, is a big part of less crime. Thank you Mayor Giuliani.

    The weird NPR-like optimistic naivety about a New York City that has really only existed post-CBGB I think, is what might turn off the sophisticated Ricochet Cognoscenti to anything to do with the once, long-ago, readable Atlantic.

    But... there’s the new workforce. Everyone’s working at home doing what? Writing? That’s almost all of Manhattan! Plenty have already made it big, same with musicians, and other artists. And they’ve always worked long, lonely hours at home or at a small, lonely venue. But nowadays... Where is the audience? Where do people go to experience this new art? He gets into slim profit margins, but thanks to the Commie in charge, I can’t see how there’s anything but a negative profit margin - for new commercially -viable art or fringe art. Or food I imagine.

  • Postmodern Hoplite@PostmodernHoplite

    I listened to the first 13 minutes or so; I wasn't impressed. Once I found myself picking up other items from my desktop to read, I realized the podcast was boring and gave up on it. If the first 25% is dull, it's not likely to get much better. (It might, but I doubt it.)