BREAKDOWN: From Proof of Health to UBI: How Everything Changes Post COVID-19, Feat. Joe McCann

From domestic manufacturing to economic nationalization by proxy to proof of health on a blockchain, a preview of the decade to come.

Apr 21, 2020

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ABOUT

Joe McCann currently works in cloud and AI at Microsoft and has spent decades in tech, crypto, and open source communities. He recently wrote a piece called “A New, New World Order” all about the second and third order effects of Covid-19.

In this conversation, Joe and NLW discuss:

Localism and the beginning of the end of globalization
The return of domestic manufacturing
The ‘Roaring 20s’ of Inflation
The inevitability of Universal Basic Income in response to inflation
QE infinity and the US’s nationalization by proxy
National healthcare as national security and why microbes are this decade’s terrorists
Proof of health, and why it’s likely to be implemented on a blockchain

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