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A sane society would take this opportunity to slow down

May 11, 2021

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https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/10/joe-biden-addresses-unemployment-insurance-after-april-jobs-report.html

How many of us would prefer not to go back to the old normal?

All the striving and the stress?

All the running around?

. . . and the impersonal institutions and the miserable traffic and the dreary jobs?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/07/jobs-report-labor-shortage-analysis/

. . . there is a great reassessment going on in the U.S. economy. There is growing evidence that a lot of people want to do something different with their lives than they did before the pandemic. The coronavirus outbreak has had a dramatic psychological effect on workers, and people are reassessing what they want to do.

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Steven Welzer
Steven Welzer

Written by Steven Welzer

A Green Party activist, Steve was an original co-editor of DSA’s “Ecosocialist Review.” He now serves on the Editorial Board of the New Green Horizons webzine.

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