The rain of calamities will immediately start when rains of currencies stop; when normalcy faces dystopian landscapes and when old economic models stay jammed and populism chants rise. Unless in simultaneous synchronicity engaging stakeholders with powerful uplifting narratives demonstrating grasps of the magnitudes of the economic damages across nations, tabling national/global solutions, the surrounding dark negative forces will find this as an opportune time to grow their tentacles.
Our realities are not about some sudden environmental code-red causing damages or immediate red lines crossed on economic behaviors or planned red alert sirens to control billions displaced now ready to march. Our realities are about how to face the truth and design a better future based on real value creation and grassroots prosperity for common good. It is also very much about recognizing ourselves as being a prisoner trapped in our own illusions.
The forces of productivity of any nation are now hidden in measuring real “human contribution” via innovative excellence and entrepreneurial exportability and not about sniper robots dancing in algorithmic tangos. Nevertheless, blindfolded repeatedly for the last many decades for exporting “large-industrial-plants” or advancing “armed-democracies” across the world and swindled in believing fancy algorithms will take care of the national economy. Where is the long awaited Fourth Industrial Revolution now missing in action over a decade? Isolated in the osmosis of ideologies the lack of transformation to upskill national citizenry will be the next biggest mistake of economic progress. With populism at the gates, new thinking must come to face the truth to deal with the future, the one where we laid the foundation.
The Hardcore Economy Issues: What is the economic endurance if prolonged recovery prohibited normalcy for another few years? What is the future of national midsize businesses where super big will flourish and small disappear in silence? What is the future of downtown office, downtown towers, downtown retail and downtown economy?
The Human Productivity Issues: What is the future of productivity, embedded in remote working and global access to sharper borderless talents? What is the future of hierarchical management over flat and open talent pools with independent leadership? What kind of work models under what kind of business models survive and what will fail but why?
Why have we been living in some foolish paradise? The lingering notion that without brainpower how can anyone ever build clusters and Silicone Valley type thriving communities; this kind of mindset has a new shock coming. The hierarchies of brainpower or the chimpenzian notion of IQ measurement, isolating the top one percentile as magnets to attract unlimited new funding for sprouting technologies to run the economy is as false as ignoring the majority of population to go out and learn coding to fit into some App job of sorts.
The future now demands occupationalism of sorts; micro-businesses with micro trading and micro-exports, where human-made creates respectability over being kicked around by a robot-sniper-dog in the lineups of jobless. The cruelty of the message further bleeds where post-pandemic recovery processes start addressing the billions of restless citizenry against the miniscule numbers of highest IQ erectus hiding in heavenly paradises.
The questions of tomorrow are brutal, they will only strip open the incompetence of today and display our own self-abuses of recent past. Hopefully the long-term outcome of mankind to march forward basically demanding common sense to produce common good and to live in harmony with diversity, tolerance and equality. Nations on fast track digitization mobilization and commercialization of midsize economy, entrepreneurial talents and exportability can see some horizon.
The rest is easy
