I’m one of those people who cares most in life about people, our environment and sustainable approaches to life. I’m 68 years old and therefore been around to see things which have supported people and things which haven’t. I’ve definitely become more radical as time has gone by (but in a positive way), and I’ve increasingly seen the destruction of our natural environment (including climate) by corporate exploitation and the excessive focus on profit. So when folks say to me I’m an anti capitalist, my response is no, but if capitalism is the way forward, it needs to change. I probably took the blue pill rather than the red because of colour blindness.
I learned to programme computers at Harwell in Oxfordshire in the 1970’s using punched cards and I now run my own home built Astronomical Observatory powered by microcontrollers, all funded from my poor attempts at capitalist gain, which didn’t really motivate me.
If ever the pills were offered again, I’d ask the question ‘which one do you think is red?’