Poor Prince Harry. A court has awarded him £150,000 compensation for the ‘harassment and pain’ he suffered from press intrusion into his private life. Yet in many parts of the world children are sleeping on the streets and begging for food. Who is compensating them? Even in the UK, according to Barnardo’s, ‘more than a million children either sleep on the floor or share a bed with parents or siblings’. Is there compensation for them?
What does it take to make people question such nauseating inequality? It takes a consciousness that capitalism is the cause and must be replaced by a world society of free access to all goods and services organised cooperatively and democratically.