Elyse Melling, Epilogue, Question 6

One thing about the epilogue that was interesting was the exercise that Wheelan proposed. He said, "Find a young child... and try to explain to him or her why much of the world lives comfortably... while millions of people elsewhere on the planet are starving to death and billions more are barely getting by. At some point, the explanation just starts to feel inadequate" (Wheelan 323). With time, we've learned that not everything has an explanation or answer. We've also found that with time, we can find answers for some things. It was interesting to me how unpredictable the economy in the future can be and how many different scenarios there are to predict what it will be like. Wheelan said that one scenario could lift billions of people out of poverty and another won't.