Up to 300 million jobs exposed. 871,000 loneliness deaths per year. The social infrastructure of work is collapsing — and nobody is talking about what comes next. These four papers map the scale of the disaster. As you read, keep one question in mind: when the institutions that provided daily structure and social connection disappear, where do people go instead? The answer is closer than you think — and it’s been there all along.
Read Step 1: The Big Picture first if you haven’t already