As I’m writing this, the world is waist-deep into a Pandemic. Covid-19 is still very much causing disruption to our way of life and how economies are running.
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We are in the midst of a global pandemic, these are frightening and uncertain times. For individuals certainly, but also for businesses, neoliberalist ideas and capitalism itself. Covid-19 is spreading through the world; as it does so, it is exposing the fragility of our global systems. As the supermarkets, the so called ‘cathedrals of capitalism’ are laid bare, the system’s vulnerability is exposed. As is our dependence on it.
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20 years ago, you’d walk down the street and see shop signs decorated with names of local people as opposed to corporations. ‘Heseltine’s Butchers’ rather than ‘Tesco Express’; ‘Daisy’s Tea Rooms’ over ‘Starbucks’. It was a time when community meant more. Local people shopped at local stores and supported them because they were convenient……
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