On billionaires

I think I might be feeling the twitches of a nascent political conscious. Not being eligible to vote in any of the countries I've called home til now, I have remained distant and cynical about the sordid world of politics. But the news snippet on the Beeb this morning about the dwindling number of billionaires in the current economic climate somehow jolted me. Billionaire has become just another word in our vocabulary; a decade ago it was unusual if not downright improbable. Now we accept that such staggering wealth is perfectly normal. While we watch Africa starve. I'm beginning to think capitalism may not be the answer.