People don’t need cosmetics or new clothes or cars or gasoline, and some luxury flashy items take a hit because there’s no way to really flaunt your wealth inside your own home. People aren’t traveling as much, tourist hotspots that were getting trashed from so much traffic are getting a reprieve. People take joy in simple mundane things like boiling some tea or tending to some house plants instead of enduring a miserable struggle chasing their wildest ambitions fueled by what they see on social media. People who work from home or remote are no longer second class citizens, they are now first class citizens just like everyone else who is also working from home. And a result of this, I find people are more tolerable, and I even find myself caring more about the plight of homeless people, because these are the times when one really needs a home more than ever.
Not every business can survive this, but most can if they are built with the assumption that this is the new normal. That’s how you protect yourself.
Fuck man, this is a way better world, and frankly I’m not sure I really want to go back to what we used to have. I actually get depressed thinking this will all go away and I’ll never experience anything like this again in my life. I hope the pandemic lasts long enough to make some of these things permanent.