Here’s what I thought just now. Here we are, IT people, designers, and journalists, relatively confident about tomorrow: there will always be work for us. If everyone is locked in at home, there’s always a way to earn money, and then spend it right away in online stores. But all this hope and confidence are based on the fact that there is the internet. And yet, it’s a resource that can be quite easily shut off. Theoretically, if a lot of people lose their jobs (and they have already started losing them), self-organization online will move to a new level, and many governments might see this as a threat. Ultimately, all our work depends on a single point of failure without the possibility of hedging.
In general, quarantine has two possible outcomes: a bright one (as much as we can apply this term) and a dark one. The bright side is associated with the explosive growth of e-commerce and remote services, more money will circulate among participants, and there will be happiness for everyone. The dark side is associated with using problems in the interests of strengthening the power of the elite and obtaining a lot of free or even slave labor in exchange for security and maybe even food.
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 