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The comments about neo liberalization at the end make me wonder if the “20s” will be remember as an era of Anti globalization and nationalism.

We saw it start to take hold about halfway through this decade and I wonder if the trend will continue.

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I remember left-antiglobalisation (against free movement of goods) being huge in the late 90s and early 00s. The days of huge clashes at the G20 meetings. This eventually got suppressed by the police, and now we've shifted to "right"-antiglobalisation with a very different focus against free movement of people and the use of trade policy against national enemies.

Rising nationalism in the 20s and 30s eventually leading to major armed conflict from 39 onwards.

Let's do the time warp again!

We seem on track to avoid the jump to the left in the UK, alas we've already stepped to the right several times

My crystal ball says remote work will revolutionize lifestyles, we ll see huge changes in health tech (long overdue), and in governance. Nomadism is a 2010s trend and ,even if not scalable, it shows the way. The renationalisation experiments did not bear fruit, i think it s becoming increasingly evident. I think the 20s will be a good time for freedoms

There are other types of reaction to neoliberalism (and the concentration of power in a handful of people that seems to be its hallmark in this context). They seem to have far less steam than nationalism, but there's a few other ways things could go. Mostly nasty, I suspect, though :(

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