Around the world, we have underutilized resources – people who want to work, machines that lie idle, buildings that are empty – and huge unmet needs: fighting poverty, promoting development, and retrofitting the economy for global warming, to name just a few. In America, after more than seven million home foreclosures in recent years, we have empty homes and homeless people.
他们说，我们的“体系”出了问题，这是对的。放眼世界，我们拥有未曾使用的资源——渴望工作的人群、被闲置的机器、空荡荡的大楼——也存在为满足的需求：比如消除贫困、促进发展、为全球变暖改变经济模式等等。在美国，近几年有数百万房子被取消了按揭赎回权，我们有大量的空房，同时又有大量无家可归者。