Thanks for the thoughtful comment. Yes, a look at history quickly reveals that things have been worse and we're not so special. My sense of Trump is that he's more interested in actually helping than he was in his first term, particularly after getting grazed by a would be assassin's bullet. I feel the same way about the tariffs and totally agree that business as usual is a guaranteed losing strategy.

I do think that we're still reliant on systems designed for a paper based world, and that modernizing these systems might eliminate a large number of jobs.