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FT Weekend: How has lockdown changed us? Plus: a night on the Orient Express
FT News Briefing
The Virus Didn't Come to Teach Us Something, but It Did
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I think it's what happens when the country has been too rich for too long, you just become complaisant about what got you there. You start playing frivolously with the idea of an agrarian, pre modern society. When we had that world it wasn't one tenth as pleasant as we now imagine. I mean, not only was there no plumbing, but there also, you know, women had one role. It was a very different world. Exactly everything we take for granted is a product of the past,. whether it's women in the work place or basic sanitation fridges. And i wonder if all bad, like, even if the virus didn't come to teach us
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