Mike Stevenson: “It's time to rebalance our understanding of what money is about. When it comes to greed, we can pin it down to three things these days: business, money, and politics. We've allowed business to kind of morph into unfettered greed and we’ve allowed greed to grow. Business is a force for good and business should be a force for good. The market can solve problems and yet we've allowed it to get out of control. 

We now have a situation where the sixty-four richest people in the world, multi-billionaires, own more than the entire bottom half of the global population. 

They see themselves as successful. Yes. Okay. They've had great business ideas and implemented them. At this point they are people who are making money simply by having money and investing it. I don't think they're earning it. I think it's spurious to claim that people are earning it and it’s so much money, they can't even spend it within their lifetime. The worst part is that they keep charging the rest of us higher and higher prices. That's what I mean by greed.

Politicians are elected with money and are mainly made by money. That means that power and control are held by the people who have exercised the greatest greed. 

We get to separate money from politics.

We are living in really difficult times. The voices that will be heard come from people asking audacious questions and we need answers to those questions. 

The best leaders are people who live in some of our most impoverished communities, because leadership becomes a necessity to survive. People seem to think there is some kind of leadership gene. There isn’t. We've allowed bad leadership in politics. Now we get to reroute politics to communities where we live. That's where the power should be, because the people are sovereign. It's the whole foundation of democracy. We've gone beyond that.” 

Have a listen as I interview my special guest Mike Stevenson.