Excerted from Renegotiate the Economy on substack.
Hello Fellow Consumers, Producers, Economic Citizens!
Welcome to the new Global Economic Landscape. Let’s terraform!
There’s this coronavirus serial killer stalking the globe. After much hesitation, the US has declared a national emergency, and the economy is in “lockdown”.
Both the virus and the economic lockdown have people terrified with competing and compounding visions of doom.
Don’t panic!
The fear of a bad economy assumes that the pre-covid economy was a good economy, with the best health outcomes that can be expected. Actually - it wasn’t. In fact, this thing we call “The Economy” is a lot of cool things, bundled up with a lot of crap. And our national and global health outcomes are actually pretty bad. We’re just used to how bad it is.
And right now we have a golden opportunity to examine this economic creature/beast, unbundle it, tease apart the good from the crap. To renegotiate the whole thing. Let’s do this!
Read the full post here. Let’s get #RenegotiateAmerica to trend. Better yet, let’s renegotiate an awesome America!
Here’s the full comic strip to inspire you:
PDF version also available.