The difference between being a blind optimist and a realistic optimist is that we recognise and accept when things are wrong....and then we change them.
As reported today our ex Minister of finance was quoted "The message coming out of everything we have seen over the past year in the Arab Spring, people on the streets in Europe, the Occupy Wall Street movement and the overall failure of systems of the past, is that that model is broken. We need something that deals with the needs of people and the economy must serve the interests of the masses ... and at the moment the market doesn't provide for that."
Until we recognize that we all share the world, we run the risk of creating a divided global society which history teaches us is the recipe for upheaval and conflict.
I may be a happy capitalist but not at the expense of others. That is just not right.
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