‘We need a more humane and flexible approach.’ Photo: by Remy Gieling on Unsplash
For what it’s worth: Barbara Pensom on value
‘When the time comes to review our fractured society, how do we devise new ways to assess the “worth” of our fellow humans?’
by Barbara Pensom
29th January 2021
How is ‘value’ to be assessed? I was recently amazed to read that an Old Master painting sent to auction was ‘worth’ a staggering number of noughts. Its ‘value’ apparently had been further enhanced by having been briefly owned by a modern painter.
