As the lockdowns continue to ease and as life begins to return to something more like normality – although it is still a very strange normal in many countries – one simple question will be asked with at first hesitancy, but then we think with growing insistence: “Was it worth it?”
After every national trauma, there is the opportunity to do things better in future. It is a chance to redress the most grievous of society’s ills. What will follow the Corona Crisis? We think there will be a renewed attention on the value society places on different contributions to our communal welfare, a new assessment of the value of each person’s labour. And foremost in the firing line will be executive pay.
