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The change in technology is independent of politics. Unless the government finds a way to ban the internet (North Korea could, the United States – not really), or at least to ban telework and distance education, the world is changed. Distance education means (once we get used to using it efficiently), that a family could live anywhere in the country (or world), and get a Torah education, and a good secular education, for their children. Many jobs can be done anywhere. If a dozen Jewish families move to a small town in a rural region, as long as they have good internet, the community is viable. Frum Jews only recently became hyper-urbanized, and we could go back to living in small communities.

There are winners and losers. Anyone owning real estate in a big city is a LOSER. So is someone whose business depends on having employers and employees being physically close (bad news for restaurants, bad news if you run an office cleaning service, etc.). Education institutions with a heavy investment in physical plant will be the biggest losers.

Given the growing anti-semitism is the “blue” urban centers, this could be the best news of Yidden since Britain turned down Germany’s peace offer in 1940 (which we didn’t know about at the time).