twelve-hour days spinning the wealth of the world’s richest city – and were going home to disease, hunger, cold and a life expectancy of thirty years? Communism must have seemed like the best possible solution. It is the best possible solution, I said, but human beings can’t share. We can’t even share free bicycles. We were passing a canal with yet another orange bike upended in the green water. Humans: so many good ideas. So many failed ideals.
