Quote from: StonksStonksStonks on August 05, 2020, 08:04:05 PM

Thats not the issue that causes jobs to not return... Its change of behavior. You get used to cooking at home, your diet changes, routine changes tend to have a longer lasting effect on restaurants ect. But even bigger is the work from home change. Many jobs are saying hey this work from home thing worked for a few months, we can do it permanent and save money on office rent. This for sure kills the restaurant next to the office, the gas station on your way to the office, and more. And then lastly, they once a job is remote work, they can outsoruce it to India.

Yep, those are all good points and I have in fact heard that some workers are continuing to work from home. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not, either for the worker or the employer. But I guess we'll just have to see how this whole thing transpires. I've seen a lot of restaurants start delivery service, and pharmacies as well. I have doubts as to whether these changes are permanent or not, though I hear what you're saying about changes in behavior and so forth.

As far as outsourcing jobs to India, I don't suspect that's going to happen to a great extent. The US has already outsourced so many services to India and other spots in Asia that whatever remains probably has a reason to stay in the US.

Quote from: Wexnident on Today at 01:55:23 AM

Nope. If they were just to print out money after money, they'd only be making their doom fall faster, and I'm pretty sure even the government realizes that.

I'd agree that they do recognize the danger of printing a near-unlimited amount of money, but I question whether anyone in the government has a plan to pay for all of this stimulus money, which is on top of all the quantitative easing they did a few years ago. As I've said before, someone has to foot the bill and that someone is always going to be the taxpayers. I'm wondering when the bill will finally arrive.