Think, then, about some of the legacies we leave our children. Debt – that we have built up by spending more than our means, even in normal times, on grounds that growth is too slow for our taste. No saved funds to pay for our retirement and certainly none to help them with theirs. Political paralysis. Climate change, which we have done precious little to reverse. Automation, which by causing great fear of the future, has unleashed the beast in many of us . . .

