Some of the old ideas used to encourage our ancestors during times of great challenge have not aged well.
That the world’s almost 3,000 billionaires — around 500 achieved that status in the last year — control more than $13 trillion (€10.7trn) gives the lie to that charter for subservience: “The meek shall inherit the earth.”
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