Radical changes needed to beat the inequality virus

Jeff Bezos could have paid all of his 876,000 Amazon employees a bonus of US$105,000 and still remain as wealthy as he was before the pandemic, Oxfam's report showed.

PINE as we may, we cannot return to pre-coronavirus times. And we should not.

It was an unequal, skewed world. The Covid-19 pandemic, which has taken over two million lives worldwide so far, will be remembered for how inequality rose in almost every country on earth at the same time and also showed that no state, no institution and no individual can take on such cataclysmic fights alone.