Denmark is one of the all time happiest places on earth. Why? They share nicely.

My favourite ever definition of humanity is “a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud suspended in endless nothing”. 

Denmark is one of the all time happiest places on earth. Why? They share nicely.

Thank you, graphic novelist Alan Moore. It was Moore who also gave us 1982’s V for Vendetta, which in turn gave the Anonymous movement their trademark Guy Fawkes masks. These masks continue to make more and more real life appearances on city streets around the world, worn by those protesting about inequality and the misappropriation of resources by something that the rest of us meekly call ‘the system’.

Despite being such intelligent fungus, not all of humanity has got the hang of what all of humanity needs – co-operation. Unlike what we insist our kids do, we do not all share nicely. According to Oxfam, if you put the world’s 85 richest people on a bus (although why a bus rather than a Lear jet or super-yacht remains a mystery, other than the rest of us – the other 7.125 billion – tend to know what a bus looks like, and can therefore reasonably imagine one).

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