Health as our greatest asset for societal progress
The market economy remains one of our most impressive inventions. But the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed, in horrific detail, how our most vulnerable and those in poorest health have suffered the most; current structures are not fit for purpose to solve the challenges of now and tomorrow.
Many would argue that, certainly in the West, a new form of socially responsible, inclusive capitalism is needed, to harness technology for good uses in the "new normal" world ahead. The World Economic Forum is calling this "stakeholder capitalism" in its Global Reset initiative, to set the world on the right path.
Arguably, it is our young people who will suffer the most from the pandemic in the long term. Their mental health has suffered more than older populations, and I only have to look to my three sons to see that they see the future with less hope and optimism than I did at their age.
Heartening to see, however...
