From Proof of Health to UBI: How Everything Changes Post COVID-19, Feat. Joe McCann

From domestic manufacturing to economic nationalization by proxy to proof of health on a blockchain, a preview of the decade to come.

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Joe McCann currently works in cloud and AI at Microsoft and has spent decades in tech, crypto and open source communities. He recently wrote a piece called “A New, New World Order” about the second and third order effects of COVID-19.

In this conversation, Joe and NLW discuss:

• Localism and the beginning of the end of globalization
• The return of domestic manufacturing
• The "Roaring 20s" of Inflation
• The inevitability of Universal Basic Income in response to inflation
• QE infinity and the U.S.’s nationalization by proxy
• National health care as national security and why microbes are this decade’s terrorists
• Proof-of-health, and why it’s likely to be implemented on a blockchain

See also: The Questions We're Not Allowed to Ask, Feat. Hidden Forces' Demetri Kofinas

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