Pico Iyer: After capitalism comes a more rigorous and more thoughtful, a more searching sense of what riches really mean. I think men are always going to have the impulse to acquire, to get on better in the world, perhaps to make money, much though many of us deplore it. It seems to be as fundamental a longing as hunger and thirst. And I don't think we can legislate or hope that men at any point are not going to want to enrich themselves, perhaps to form communities and in the formation of those communities, to form divisions. That's a part of human nature. As Churchill said of democracy, I think, it's a bad system or it’s an imperfect system, but it’s the best imperfect system we have. And some people may say the same of capitalism, but many of the alternatives are ideal, but idealism has cost a lot of lives. So I am suspecting that we will muddle through with capitalism and try to refine and reform capitalism from within rather than reaching towards an imported system, such as communism, which has the beauty and freshness of representing another way and yet sometimes hasn’t factored in enough the needs of human nature. A theory that works so stirringly, in theory and on the page and in the abstract, but regards humans as digits rather than breathing people with longings and cravings that, sad to say, are part of the human bargain.