What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.

What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.