The comedian George Carlin was unforgiving in his disdain for people like me: “The Baby Boomers,” he said, “[are] whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: ‘Gimme that! It’s mine’.” While this might be a crude and not entirely accurate dismissal of an entire generation, he’s not completely off the mark, and there is one thing we can all agree on: we were born lucky.

Those of us who were born between the late 1950s and early 1960s have lived, mainly, through an era of peace and prosperity, of opportunity and security, of free love and home ownership. And, now, we have bequeathed to our children a world riddled with threat and insecurity, and with that fundamental of economic self-determination – owning their own home, something we took for granted – becoming an ever more distant prospect.

It’s not our fault. Luck is not a sin. But denial of it is. And if we are to have a legacy beyond being the cipher of an age of selfishness and consumption, we must be open to finding a way to rebalance power (particularly financial power), and to help create a society that is more equitable for........

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