ANET AHERN: Surviving a world on fire
All crises involve both a change and a return to normal — but the new normal will be entirely different to how things were before
07 May 2020 - 05:00
My late mother was profoundly affected by the Great Depression of the 1930s. She recalled how it altered the way her parents saw food entirely. The depression changed consumption patterns for generations, even if the US economy rebounded in leaps of 10%-19% during the 1940s.
It illustrates how crises involve both a change and a return to normal — even if that new normal is entirely different to what came before...
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