It was a long and winding road that led us from the initial attempts at globalisation onto the realities in 2050. Globalisation had had its critics as a framework resulting in the reinforcing of inequalities … but then again, the big problem is that democracy is notoriously understood as the rule of the majority. And the majority of people were spoon fed the idea that inequalities act as the engine for aspiration and self-determination. Not much space in this postcard to flesh out how this reinforcement of inequalities started to be understood as a serious motor for greed. Greed, as the blind focus on increased revenue, has now turned the market outcomes one too many times into bubbles filled with empty air. The slavery to irrational markets has been blamed and shamed, from many rational, logical angles. Society starts to agree that the measurement of progress in terms other than public GDP and private profit should give way to more balanced, rounded alternatives. A new breeze of fresh hope can be sensed across the world …
Author: Pilar
