Ách chuyên chế của chế độ nhân tài

như dịch covid-19 cho thấy, chúng ta ngày càng phụ thuộc nhau như nào, ko chỉ vào bác sĩ, y tá, mà còn là nhân viên giao hàng (shipper), lái xe tải, nhân viên cửa hàng tạp hóa, nhân viên nhà kho, nhân viên chăm sóc trẻ em...

-> cần phải đánh giá lại triệt để, 'đạo đức hơn', 'tôn trọng hơn' đóng góp của hàng triệu người (có thể không có bằng cấp cao) này,

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…The only way out of the crisis, Sandel believes, is to dismantle the meritocratic assumptions that have morally rubber-stamped a society of winners and losers. The Covid-19 pandemic, and in particular the new appreciation of the value of supposedly unskilled, low-paid work, offers a starting point for renewal. “This is a moment to begin a debate about the dignity of work; about the rewards of work both in terms of pay but also in terms of esteem. We now realise how deeply dependent we are, not just on doctors and nurses, but delivery workers, grocery store clerks, warehouse workers, lorry drivers, home healthcare providers and childcare workers, many of them in the gig economy. We call them key workers and yet these are oftentimes not the best paid or the most honoured workers.”

There must be a radical re-evaluation of how contributions to the common good are judged and rewarded. The money to be earned in the City or on Wall Street, for example, is out of all proportion with the contribution of speculative finance to the real economy. A financial transactions tax would allow funds to be channelled more equably. But for Sandel, the word “honour” is as important as the question of pay. There needs to be a redistribution of esteem as well as money, and more of it needs to go to the millions doing work that does not require a college degree.