How the Wuhan Virus Will Change the World Order

[Oliversmom 250]

22 minutes ago, Orangesapples said:

It is better from a physical distancing standpoint, true, but I find it very annoying. It also breaks quite often and you still need to have an employee help you. I prefer to have people scan things for me, doing it myself just feels like a hassle. I also like interacting with cashiers. 

I actually like self-checkout.  I always use it a  Walmart.  I like doing it myself and not having to interact with anyone.  

[Ban Hammer 13,419]

37 minutes ago, Orangesapples said:

I also like interacting with cashiers. 

sounds like a violation of the 6' social distance rule....

[Orangesapples 1,954]

4 minutes ago, Ban Hammer said:

sounds like a violation of the 6' social distance rule....

In a non pandemic context, obviously. I also like traveling and hanging out with friends but that's obviously not an option now. 

[Steeleballz 7,550]

 

    Three things I will continue to do when the pandemic ends is grocery pickup, check deposit from home, and online TP/paper towel delivery. Saves me about 3 hours a week. I also hope they keep the online school setup for blizzards and freezing winter days so they don't have to debate whether or not to close schools until 5AM. It would be nice just to say the night before that school will be from home the next day. 

 

   Grocery delivery was something I found to be not worth the hassle. 

  

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

6 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

    Three things I will continue to do when the pandemic ends is grocery pickup, check deposit from home, and online TP/paper towel delivery. Saves me about 3 hours a week. I also hope they keep the online school setup for blizzards and freezing winter days so they don't have to debate whether or not to close schools until 5AM. It would be nice just to say the night before that school will be from home the next day. 

 

   Grocery delivery was something I found to be not worth the hassle. 

  

Check deposit from home?  You mean you have been going to the bank all this time?  I'm guessing I've stepped foot inside a bank maybe 5 times in the past 15 years.  Have been doing mobile deposit since circa 2005 or so.

[Orangesapples 1,954]

10 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

    Three things I will continue to do when the pandemic ends is grocery pickup, check deposit from home, and online TP/paper towel delivery. Saves me about 3 hours a week. I also hope they keep the online school setup for blizzards and freezing winter days so they don't have to debate whether or not to close schools until 5AM. It would be nice just to say the night before that school will be from home the next day. 

 

   Grocery delivery was something I found to be not worth the hassle. 

  

Wait, people actually deposit checks offline? 

[Steeleballz 7,550]

4 minutes ago, Voice of Reason said:

Check deposit from home?  You mean you have been going to the bank all this time?  I'm guessing I've stepped foot inside a bank maybe 5 times in the past 15 years.  Have been doing mobile deposit since circa 2005 or so.

 

  Oh yeah. They finally closed the drive up at mine, because that is still a risk of transmitting a virus. They had a sign that said the bank downtown was still open or use the phone app to do it from home. Smart phones are not really my thing, so I've always been at the tail end of that technology curve.

[Steeleballz 7,550]

8 minutes ago, Orangesapples said:

Wait, people actually deposit checks offline? 

 

  Just take a picture with the app.It was probably the most straight forward productivity app I've ever set up. You would be surprised how many people don't know that. They are always blocking me at the bank, but not any more.

 

Edited April 10, 2020 by Steeleballz

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8 hours ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  Oh yeah. They finally closed the drive up at mine, because that is still a risk of transmitting a virus. They had a sign that said the bank downtown was still open or use the phone app to do it from home. Smart phones are not really my thing, so I've always been at the tail end of that technology curve.

Let us go back in time.  The year was 2006.  I was in Korea, and a person claimed to have already mailed me a check, which I had not gotten 4 weeks hence.  They offered to write me a new check and mail it.  I said, "No need, just take a picture of the front of the check and send it to me."  A short while later, they did (though I suspect they JUST wrote a check and backdated it), but the joke was on them, because I took the pic, printed it, and imported it into my banking app.  Imagine their surprise about 5 minutes later when I texted and thanked them, assuring them the money was in my account.  Deposit @mobile rocks!  (I didn't have a smart phone at the time, either).

[Steeleballz 7,550]

2 minutes ago, Voice of Reason said:

Let us go back in time.  The year was 2006.  I was in Korea, and a person claimed to have already mailed me a check, which I had not gotten 4 weeks hence.  They offered to write me a new check and mail it.  I said, "No need, just take a picture of the front of the check and send it to me."  A short while later, they did (though I suspect they JUST wrote a check and backdated it), but the joke was on them, because I took the pic, printed it, and imported it into my banking app.  Imagine their surprise about 5 minutes later when I texted and thanked them, assuring them the money was in my account.  Deposit @mobile rocks!  (I didn't have a smart phone at the time, either).

 

      I imagine that was easier to pull off in 2006 than it would be now.

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,376]

On 4/9/2020 at 5:11 AM, sl1pstream said:

I think you're seriously underestimating the power of cheap labor and how unwilling people are to pay more when they can pay less.

Combine that with the fact that people won't have any money in the first place and you get to the point where not a whole lot will change.

 

There might be some supply chain changes where companies like Apple will get a reserve again, but I really don't see companies like Walmart switching to more expensive stuff just because it's American made. People don't care where things come from.

 

This article underestimates how expensive all of those changes are. All of those changes are great, but that means making huge changes in a world in which every country will either have a recession or will at least have an economy seriously affected by the virus' aftermath.

 

There definitely be changes in how we go through daily life and there will hopefully be some changes when it comes to how we treat minimum wage workers, considering their importance during this crisis. I just don't see the changes this article talks about happening, at least not on that scale.

Their use of "Wuhan-virus" kind of gives away their general stance on China, so I'm assuming that this is sort of their dream scenario, but they're way too overoptimistic.

Not only cheap labor, No OSHA, and very little concern for the environment. 

When I use to manage a manufacturing plant, our owner went over there a good bit. We outsourced a lot of plastic items over there.

Many of the videos he took in those places was eye opening. 

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,376]

8 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

Check deposit from home?  You mean you have been going to the bank all this time?  I'm guessing I've stepped foot inside a bank maybe 5 times in the past 15 years.  Have been doing mobile deposit since circa 2005 or so.

Me too. I think USAA was ahead of the curve on that.

 

I saw USAA was going to refund part of our insurance premiums.  Just assuming you are a USAA member. When I first became a member, they only insured officers

Edited April 11, 2020 by Nature Boy 2.0

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

Just now, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

Me too. I think USAA was ahead of the curve on that.

No doubt.  I was blown away when I tried to work with a local GA bank electronically back in 2016.  They had no idea what I was talking about.

[OriZ 3,157]

There's a difference between self checkout(which I am not a fan of), and something like Amazon go. The latter is a game changer, future generations will laugh at how we used to shop

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

Just remember to keep your distance.  (As if it matters more in reality than in words)