🔮 Immigrants; corona architecture; apps & Apple; TikTok, future cities & generalists++ #275

I’m Azeem Azhar. I convene Exponential View to help us understand how our societies and political economy will change under the force of rapidly accelerating technologies.

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💰 Super interesting paper from Raj Chetty and the crew. As the US economy closed down in March, “high-income households sharply reduced their spending, primarily on services that require in-person interactions.” In fact, the top 25% of earners cut their incomes the most and were responsible for “half of the decline in consumption.” My observation: it is remarkable that we can turn this granular analysis around so quickly. I’ve referred to some of the precursors to this in previous EVs—it starts to beg the question of what the circumstances and co…