I can recommend "The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay" by economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman for some concrete ideas on how to fix this problem.
Some ideas seemed a bit unlikely, but overall great refreshing read in my opinion.
Counterpoint here: I travelled for about 8 months about 7 years ago (already? damn!) and it even though it didn't change me directly as a person, it did instill an ever-present hunger to see more of the world. More importantly, it made me marry my foreign travel-partner which has without a doubt been very transformative ;)
A bit far-fetched to link this book to the current COVID crisis, but I actually read it a few month ago and really enjoyed it! It's obviously very specific from the point of view of an old European intellectual and filled with nostalgia, but a fascinating read nonetheless, with some great portraits of famous artists from his time.
His rant on passports feels very relevant in these times of ever decreasing personal freedoms and privacy. Hard to imagine the Habsburg empire was actually not that long ago.
While educating the elderly can help in the short term, I feel like this shows structural problems such as personal data protection and phone carriers' unwillingness to fix these sort of issues.
I'm not saying phone fraud is non-existing in my home country of Belgium, but I've never received a single scam call, nor do I know of anyone who did, so the size of the issue in the US is surprising to me.
I do remember getting a lot more spam calls while living in Spain for a while, so it seems very linked to countries' law enforcement and carrier cooperation.
