Ship 30 for 30
Rejoice! Government matters again!
(Chortle) Had it stopped?
Quotes from Klaus Schwalb’s The Great Reset:
The COVID-19 pandemic has made government important again. Not just powerful again (look at those once-mighty companies begging for help) …. Good government is the difference between living and dying.
For the first time since Margaret Thatcher captured the zeitgeist of an era when declaring that “there is no such thing as society”, governments have the upper hand.
(Had they lost it?)
Governments will strongly encourage public-private partnerships so that private companies get more involved in the mitigation of global risks.
(Had they been uninvolved before?)
To varying degrees, business executives in all industries and all countries will have to adapt to greater government intervention.
Taxation will increase, particularly for the most privileged.
(I doubt that. The rich always have options.)
Put bluntly, we live in a world in which nobody is really in charge.
Most people, fearful of the danger posed by COVID-19, will ask: Isn’t it foolish not to leverage the power of technology to come to our rescue when we are victims of an outbreak and facing a life-or-death kind of situation?They will then be willing to give up a lot of privacy and will agree that in such circumstances public power can rightfully override individual rights. Then, when the crisis is over, some may realize that their country has suddenly been transformed into a place where they no longer wish to live.
I feel a bit like Gandalf, in the Mines of Moria, reading from the Dwarves’ ancient records ….
“They are coming.”
