Fabrício Maciel

Meritocracy has always been praised in the modern world as a superior moral system and the most effective for tackling inequality. For its advocates, its great virtue lies precisely in the fact that it opens up real opportunities for everyone to move up the social ladder, thus breaking down the barriers of social injustice imposed by inequality of origin. As a result, all that is needed to build a more egalitarian and inclusive scenario is individual effort...

Understanding capitalism is not a simple task, precisely because it is an economic system and a way of life that is constantly changing. Throughout the twentieth century, there were many attempts to define and classify the stages of capitalism. Now, in the twenty-first century, the technological dimension of the system is already showing its most aggressive face, producing on a global scale a new kind of digital underclass. In this scenario, the coronavirus...