Meritocracy is broken. In the post-pandemic world, the best need to take care of the rest

At this moment in time, the old model doesn’t work any more. When President Donald Trump pledged to put “America first”, he could not have imagined that the United States would one day top the world in coronavirus cases (over 1.2 million) and deaths (over 75,000). Few could have imagined the world’s most powerful economy would, in a matter of months, move from near full employment to more than 30 million seeking unemployment aid.And those of us who bought into the “one for all, all for one”…

Read the original article at South China Morning Post