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Capitalism and Covid in the moral maze

Capitalism and Covid in the moral maze

What principles do we need to create a better society after the pandemic?

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Melanie Phillips
Oct 22, 2020
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On BBC Radio’s Moral Maze this week, we discussed whether Covid-19 had conspired with global capitalism to create a “lost generation” — no, not the people who have died from the virus but the young, who some people claim have “sacrificed everything” to save the lives of the old.

As the programme’s home page puts it:

A parallel has been drawn with the p…

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