This crisis is exposing the different characteristics and features of the social-economic value structures:

• our economy is struggling because the real economy does not exist anymore
• the higher the distance for consumption and production the more money is to made, captured and "reinvested"
• the limitations of these models: where things are made, how they are distributed and who owns the means of consumption

More than a health crisis, this is a crisis of values
- the move from shareholder value versus localist economy
- local business changing their offerings — take-away, rethinking who they source and produce for
- Even broader policies and practices are put in check: healthcare regulations, right-to-try, placement of manufacturing, government reach and response, civic organising

Questions to discuss tonight:
- What re the Articulated Values that the pandemic made clear about our current economic model? More importantly, what are the suppressed ones?
- Why are these values suppressed? What structural features of drive the evolution of norms and make it harder to live by the suppressed values?
- What could be a new value-system for the world post pandemic?

Start with

• Distributed economics — a new engine for innovation
• Get Ready, a Bigger Disruption Is Coming (either the link from bloomberg or use outline.com)
• How Coronavirus Kills Capitalism and Gives rise to Metamodernism