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The ownership and distribution models aren't the problem. The problem is that while everyone is locked up at home, no one consumes, we don't go to restaurants, to malls, we don't do tourism. And in some case we don't produce either, construction is halted, etc. There is almost no economic activity going on.

No economic model works when everyone is effectively on house arrest.



That sounds like an argument based on faith.

Edit:

that we can not "be reshaping our economic systems to be more resilient against such a crisis" seems like arguing from faith. There is no natural law that dictates that everything has to go to haywire just because things are on a pause, or that the current systems, particularly in the US, constitutes the optimal way to handle this.


> That sounds like an argument based on faith.

Faith? That when everyone has to stay home, no significant economic activity can happen? You can call it faith...




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