MARK BARNES: Make peace with the radical economic transformation bugbear
The problem is systemic. The solution is to be found in logic, not politics
Radical economic transformation has everyone's knickers in a knot. It shouldn't have, it's simply a challenge we have to face and sort out. We have no choice. We have to define it unambiguously lest it divide us, rather than unite our economic efforts. It requires a mind-set change. Success will come only once every participant across the economic spectrum has reached clarity of purpose in radical economic transformation. The objective must be common cause if we are to have any hope of getting there. Only once we have all seen the destination and agreed on its overwhelming virtue, and the better life it will bring for all, can we talk implementation specifics and timetables. The objective is a statistically normal distribution of wealth in our society. Our distribution now is skewed and polarised - and simply not sustainable, like it or not. Absent common cause, an economically divided society will not right itself. Left to its own devices, inequality will become further entrenched....
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