The world order, in terms of socio-economic and politico-legal structures, is for sure changing, but it's more a matter of demographics and communication.<p>We have shattered certain assumptions about the world economy to ensure the continuing welfare of the oldest of us. This is an unprecedented act of selflessness by everyone younger than seventy-ish, because we love our elders so.<p>The real change in the world order is logistical, which has caused significant re-pricings of almost everything (even the things that are roughly the same price are so in a very different set of market conditions).<p>It is no longer a matter of how nations compete but how they collaborate, and the markets are adjusting accordingly.<p>I'm quite optimistic, but then I study Science.<p>[Edit (apart from mis-spellings)]:<p>The shattered assumptions pertain to debt management by governments, which are trivial compared to the volume of daily trading. We are in for a reckoning on resource measurement hopefully not of catastrophic proportions and this pandemic is merely a spur. In a nutshell: money fails dimensional analysis.<p>[Edit the second]:<p>By the way, if any of you would like to get together and discuss type theory and dimensional analysis and maybe reach out to the folk on the n-category cafe and lambdatheultimate and suchlike I'll happily help. We've a problem needs solving and Hacker News is populated by folk who like solving problems. I'll end (cheekily, give it a search engine result) with a reference to Terence Tao: A mathematical formalisation of dimensional analysis. I keep coming back to this blogpost. The subject kinda weirds me out.<p>[Edit the third]:<p>Removed the first paragraph as snarky, mea culpa