| Comment | At the very least, it fundamentally undermines arguments about there being no Magic Money Tree, being unable to house the homeless, it being acceptable to pay key workers less than a living wage, UBI being unfeasible magical thinking (notice the extreme pains the government is going to to make sure their employment support measures can't be called that) and it being ok to size the NHS to slightly less than typical seasonal capacity.
I would like to think some of the behavioural elasticity we have demonstrated can now be channelled into tackling climate change through similar measures - if we can stay home for months, then maybe we can also be a bit more flexible about transport usage / remote working and learning, and open to new ways of using renewable energy in our lives that require far less extreme modifications to our actions. |
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