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"COVID will change everything about work." No. But fertility rates will, tho!
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"COVID will change everything about work." No. But fertility rates will, tho!

Middle managers are not changing, writ large But automated suites + less people in the tax base = will change things.

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Oct 12, 2021
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Here is a good, long, often-drastic article from The New York Times about global demographic shifts, fertility rates, replacement rates, and the like. Let me pull-quote the essence of said article for you:

The strain of longer lives and low fertility, leading to fewer workers and more retirees, threatens to upend how societies are organized — around the …

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