How to repair

I am not optimistic that we can avoid major global unrest as a reset because that is how history has always functioned. In the early 20th century it took two world wars to then usher in a long period of prosperity. The early 21st looks much the same as the previous one in that the appetite for authoritarianism as problem solver is once again present.

Wealth disparity at an all-time high means that the bottom rung of society is increasingly in desperation mode and those who hold power seem in no mood to abandon systems which no longer function. Largely unchecked capitalism as it has been practiced particularly over the last 50 years has proved disastrous but to fix that there must be both the global appetite and initiatives put into place to repair where we are. 

No one wants to go first.