Where does working from home leave productive industries ?

Productive industries will need to adapt. Or morph into co-ops where the work can be piece work and done by the worker cohort from a spare room or re-purposed garage. And supported by a couple of large delivery van or some such taking the pieces to various assembly/packaging points. And collected between midnight and dawn.

What'll make the latter work, is truly affordable energy! And fully electric delivery vehicles. Further assisted by a 15% flat tax we all pay above a generous threshold!

Worth considering in view that the virus is here to stay and we won't ever be able to go back to how things were until there is a vaccine and an 80%+ take-up rate!

We face an economy in meltdown and heading for a fiscal cliff!

And need to understand, now, today, finally, that the only private enterprise, free-market business models, that survived the Great Depression largely intact, were co-ops!

And that the Great Depression was a manageable recession, forced to become the Great Depression by suicidal conservative idiocy! Manifesting as dumber than dumb Austerity! In a vain attempt to preserve the status quo and privilege.

One has heard stories of millionaires reduced to their last million taking swan dives off very tall buildings, rather than face their reduced circumstances/less privileged lives.

As good as we were handling the dynamics of the pandemic. One sees in the unmistakable body language of the federal government. A diabolically dumb leaning toward supporting parasitical, exploitative foreign multinationals?

Rather than the great unwashed Australian cohort, i.e., we the people? The voters and employers of the elected serving officialdom!

Look at America where the leadership is too dumb to understand until you've beaten the bug, the economy is cactus and only looking good right now due to the huge debt creating, pump-priming taking place.

And where the stock market and reelection prospects far outweigh any and all health issues/the ever-mounting death toll!? Or that they are just too dumb to figure, without vibrant, general good health/herd immunity, there is no effective economy!
Alan B

Productive industries will need to adapt.
Alan B,
Consumers will need to adapt to new costings also !

Individual.

It's not the consumers who need to adapt, just the production and delivery model! Co-ops eliminate the usual bottleneck and the parasites who predate on the work ethic of others!

And if we eliminate all the unproductive practices from the supply side, we can more than undercut current costs.

Eliminate the paper shuffling profit demanding middleman/robber barons and you halve both the cost of doing business/cost of living!

It's the latter who want a return to business as usual and other folks earning their money for them and must be resisted to the enth as a new production paradigm is forced on us by the contagion!

Commissions need to be outlawed and replaced by salaried staff.

Production must be automated and wherever possible from a single covid-19 free bubble, per enterprise! I would suggest that is rural and regional Australia. Not jam-packed crowded cities!
Alan B.

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I have to say we've been hurt hard by two things - one the collaboration we used to have from other businesses in the space and two it's now very isolating working essentially solo. I'll be excited when we move to a back to work plan!

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