By Ann Kreilkamp | August 12, 2014

Robert Reich offers a ray of hope that some form of capitalism can actually remain in place, once enough people, especially those in the .001% realize that only when all humans count as of value can any of us truly thrive. To this end he distinguishes between stakeholder and shareholder capitalism, arguing that the first prevailed up until the 1980s when “greed is good” took over and ran amuck.

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Is Reich naive? I.e., is “reform” possible? Or is revolution the only “solution” to what has gone so wrong. I’d say it depends on whether or not the majority of people realize that the chaotic headwinds now pummeling the globe can only be dissipated if even the wealthy realize what’s truly at stake. On the other hand, Nafeez Ahmed in the Guardian argues that

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Prince Charles talks to Lynn Forester de Rothschild (left), organizer of the Conference on Inclusive Capitalism, and Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, before Tuesday's conference. The 250 corporate and financial leaders who attended control some $30 trillion, about a third of the world's investable assets. WPA Pool/Getty Images
Prince Charles talks to Lynn Forester de Rothschild (left), organizer of the Conference on Inclusive Capitalism, and Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, before Tuesday’s conference. The 250 corporate and financial leaders who attended control some $30 trillion, about a third of the world’s investable assets.
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An NPR story about the conference —

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ends like this:

Conference organizer Rothschild says there will be follow-up with all of the delegates, but she made a conscious decision not to ask for any commitments up front.

“Even for me,” she says laughing, “I thought that would be a little pushy.”

Pushy? Ye gods. How much time do we have before the world blows up?