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The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity
By Richard Florida
I just finished reading Richard Florida’s The Great Reset and loved it.
It is fascinating look at our current economic situation (collapse) as compared to the economic collapse and resulting social crisis of 1870 and 1929 in the United States and how we not only survived those difficult times, but thrived.
In his newest book Richard Florida not only reviews history, but offers real hope that the United States can survive our current crisis and prosper individually and as a nation if we look at the current situation as an opportunity. We can look to the past for answers and adapt what worked before to today’s global society.
Some examples he discusses at length in the book:
- Investment in infrastructure such as high-speed rail lines to connect megaregions/cities to support a more mobile living and working society.
- Move to make jobs in the service industry high paying, respected positions just as we moved manufacturing jobs in the 30′s and 40′s from low-paying, dirty, dangerous jobs to well paid jobs that allowed people to support their families and communities.
- An overhaul of our educational system-one that served us well during the move from an agricultural society to a manufacturing one, but one that is only hurting us now.
- Other topics: what a more mobile society looks like, what the consumer is now buying and what he/she will be buying in the future, financial and real estate bubbles, and more.
If you are looking for signs of hope and possibility for yourself, your children and your grandchildren this is an excellent book to begin to see what the future could look like and what you can do today to support it.
