pseudo-individual,

Sorry to be one to tell you but WE = pseudo-individual.

Mr Opinion,
If you say so Kemosabe !

Musical Chairs!

Too many participants and too few chairs to begin with, but so long as the music went on they were all happy - now the music stopped and the author found himself without a chair.

This lost "capital" was never destructed, but just never existed in reality because tall office buildings in city-centres were never a good idea. So far the losers were the workers who were forced to commute there, wasting their precious time on earth unpaid, which is a form of exploitation - now instead, it is the share-holders who became the losers, shedding crocodile tears over losing their "riskless" investments. Why so happy to get nice profits but unwilling to accept that any investment is attached to risks as well?

Yes, superannuation too: nobody is forced to keep their super in risky investments - the choice is always there to keep one's savings in cash or safer assets, yet so many succumb to greed.

I don't like the virus, nobody does, but it did one or two good things and clearing up the city-centres and the unhealthy, stressful and unnatural lifestyle that goes with them, is one of them.

And good news for the few who liked to commute because they had no company otherwise: nothing stops you from taking a bus around in your free time even now, just without the pressure, to find acquaintances there (however, I believe that there are more efficient ways to find friends).

I agree with Hasbeen and enjoyed Individual's comment:

«What it all boils down is that frivolous industries have simply become just that, frivolous !»