When entropy overwhelms order, smart and adaptive pivot to new normal! Is it time for a hyphenated-playbook for the 2020s, where old formulae don’t work anymore?

1. When entropy overwhelms order, smart and
adaptive pivot to new normal!
Is it time for a hyphenated-playbook for the
2020s, where old formulae don’t work anymore?
• Bloomers from generation X, Z and the
millennial seek acceptance vs. denial,
alignment vs. assurances, action vs. slogans
and result vs. promises
• The blossoming generation pursue their
values, beliefs and goals by means
unbeknown and outcomes incomprehensible
to the generation that is fading yet, continues
to rely on hard levers and exercises control
over physical resources, some critical and
many inconsequential
• Unaccountable isms; axis of clubby and
grubby politics, vassal institutions, airborne
capitalism and pliable academia; all fatally
collude to imbue chasm between right vs.
wrong - worthy vs. untenable and
unsustainable
In the times of dominant fifth-estate, extractive
and unapologetic surveillance capitalism,
doctored freedom and democracy on ventilator;
debased globalization is giving way to prickly,

2. populist and nationalistic localisation, partisan
trade wars and tariff-terrorism; where crony
capitalism and oligopoly continues to strain the
fabric of trust, fellowship and cohesion at large
I posit that:
• Causal human experience will triumph over
expensive, malleable and fleeting loyalty,
which is fatigued and suffers relevance-
anxiety
• Generation that matter will frequently usurp
flow, conjure discourse and redefine choice;
in ways unfamiliar to those used to lord over
purse, power, thoughts and actions
• “Fifth estate” will rule the politico-socio-
economic nursery, shifting the game away
from the bromidic, despite their intermittent
growls, generally ineffective and routinely
expensive
• Smaller and responsive, warm and humble
organizations will rise and flourish
• Whilst data with technology will spew
unprecedented insights and opportunities,
enjoined by remorseless disregard to tenets
of privacy, propriety, civics or civility; riding
on refresh-overdue legal loopholes, pliant
polity and toothless-talkfests; mastery of

3. emotions, deep empathy and behavioural-
economics will determine successes or
failures in the new-paradigm
• Global tech giants will face headwinds from
the wronged, disfranchised, exploited,
displaced and disillusioned; will stare at
ruinous liabilities and tauten restrictions;
nation states will be reluctant to stand-by
stateless globals
• Inflation will rise, primarily around
essentials and survival needs, in the hunt for
rent by light-footed and unapologetic
capitalism
• Rising polarization will be the cause du jour
for the ascent of moral-capitalism
• Many developing nations will prematurely
fritter-away their promise and potential,
vainly giving into fanciful self-worth,
aggrandized revisionism and self-concocted
entitlement in pursuit of self-
aggrandizement and pecking-order
maneuvering, giving rise to bouts of
economic migration!
• Demographic dividend will fast become
generational demographic liability,
burdening nation states at-large with
unprecedented carry and repair costs with
indeterminable social risks

4. • De-globalization will give way to electorally
populist, abrasively nationalistic
localization; rise of catchy-phrases and
optics in place of ideas, policies, leadership,
sweat and service, with hard to dismantle
new vote banks
• Protectionism will weaken investments,
talent and labor flow, trade harmony, growth
and overall economic prospects; “world is
flat” will soon be a distant memory,
subsumed by "byzantine majoritarianism
and burly personality politics", just a catchy
phrase from a rich and entrepreneurial,
having lived its 15 minutes of fame!
• Turf war will severely and materially impact
services economy, the white collar brigade if
you like, after the turns of kleptocracy in
resources and slash & burn labor arbitrage
in manufacturing...
• Overall economic growth will be slower than
the last decade, thanks to depleted savings,
ballooning sovereign debts, weak public
investments, decades of crippling low-wages,
constrained consumption and insufferably
mortgaged future labor and time of the
“fatigued hopefuls”… How can consumption
lead growth be imagined amidst unyielding
1%ers and exhausted 99%ers?

5. • Public will catch-up on many a myths of
vulture-capitalism and it’s well-worn tag
lines such as; the role of invisible hand in
dynamic market-efficiency or that rising tide
lifts all boats or that new-technologies and
new-ways render newer, at-scale and better
opportunities for the displaced...
• Punitive and long-deferred costs from past
political shenanigans, foreign policy
misadventures and environmental
vandalism will come home to roost
I have been Satya Chari
January, 2020