Coronavirus as a Symptom of Systemic Stagnation

... production (the first industrial revolution), for example, was the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. The First World War was preceded by the emergence of mass production (the Second Industrial Revolution). The universal computerization of the economy (the Third Industrial Revolution) took place alongside the collapse of the Soviet Union and socialism as a whole and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact. It is logical to assume that the coronavirus pandemic is a test of sorts to see if the global ...