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Donald Trump and Angela Merkel will join 2,500 world leaders, business executives and charity bosses at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland which kicks off on 23 January. High on the agenda once again will be the topic of inequality, and how to reduce the widening gap between the rich and the rest around the world.
The WEF recently warned that the global economy is at risk of another crisis, and that automation and digitalisation are likely to suppress employment and wages for most while boosting wealth at the very top.
But what ideas should the great and good gathered in the Swiss Alps be putting into action? We'd like to know what single step you think governments should prioritise in order to best address the problem of rising inequality. Below we've outlined seven proposals that are most often championed as necessary to tackle the issue – but which of them is most important to you?
- Provide free and high quality education
- Raise the minimum wage
- Raise taxes on the rich
- Fight corruption
- Provide more social protection for the poor
- Stop the influence of the rich on politicians
- Provide jobs for the unemployed
Do you think these ideas are enough, or are there any better ideas to close this wealth gap ? You too can participate and vote for the idea that, you think, works best.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Entropy on Saturday January 20 2018, @11:38PM (14 children)
Perhaps some of the families that can't afford food shouldn't have 5 children. Google "Angel Adams" and her 13 or so children that she insists someone else needs to pay for. No, she needs to pay for them--but she never will because her only purpose in life is a useless baby factory.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by julian on Sunday January 21 2018, @12:05AM (6 children)
So you punish the child for the sins of their parents? Very Old Testament of you.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by crafoo on Sunday January 21 2018, @12:27AM (3 children)
The world is going to punish the child, then punish us for her sins. And this story will be repeated a billion times. The moral of the story, what you SHOULD HAVE LEARNED, is to do something about it before the child is conceived.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @12:38AM (2 children)
Mandatory abortions for mothers in poverty. Doing something about it! Tough on poverty!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @05:33PM (1 child)
There's no need for that. Give them the choice of zero aid or permanent sterilization.
Meanwhile give out free condoms etc. The parents who are more responsible will then have the number of children they can afford to feed and raise.
While the irresponsible ones will starve or be sterilized.
When you have billions of people on the world it's not so important to help reproduce the genetic material of those who can't learn important stuff like not having more children than you can afford to feed and raise.
Time to focus on quality and not quantity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @08:23PM
Psychopath
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @12:34AM (1 child)
Here are some ways I can think of to get a handle on this.
- Sufficiently advanced feminism. Yes, womyn-born-womyn can spit out babies, and with great power comes great responsibility. This only works if we provide women with no-cost contraception.
- Forced sterilization. Require women to be married before they may have children. This is not Yahweh/Diana-compatible.
- Children the parents cannot support are taken from both parents and raised by the state. This is not Yahweh-compatible.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday January 21 2018, @05:47PM
How about cheap contraception? Isn't that good enough?
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Sunday January 21 2018, @12:17AM (6 children)
There will always be exceptions.
But if you let your policy be determined solely by trying to counter the exceptions, you get bad policy.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday January 21 2018, @02:55AM (5 children)
To the kind of people who want that sort of policy, this is a feature, not a bug. There is a visceral disgust these people have for the poor, and they'll do anything they can to salve it--the disgust, not the problems of poverty. If that includes turning their back and inching their way to democide of the poor, so be it, as long as they don't have to look at the poor.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @09:10AM
I’m so glad to hear you’re willing to pay for their daycare. How virtuous of you!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @09:25AM (1 child)
Do you want more people to be poor? Subsidize poverty, and you'll get more poor people. They breed.
It could be considered evolution. If the environment changes to include welfare or child support, those who best exploit the new environment will leave the greatest number of descendants. Over time, these mental attributes become numerous in the population. In the long term this is unsustainable, leading to a crash. Civilization is going down.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 22 2018, @10:38PM
Only idiots like you buy into social darwinism. All the examples of poor people managing to claw their way out of a system designed against them won't change your mind, you cling to the idea of "welfare mamas" and ignore the ways we could solve those problems.
Do you know WHY there is a welfare trap? Because Republicans are assholes that refuse to be decent human beings, so all the welfare programs were encumbered with "reasonable" measures trying to bring accountability back in. So, if a single mother gets a part time job then she can no longer receive benefits. However, if her benefits pay more than the job then she obviously won't take the job! Thank you assholes for making it difficult for people to improve their own situation, good job, golf claps all around! I also just really enjoy having the assholes who set up the system for failure use that to destroy it even further.
You are the type of person making the world a worse place and by god you think up is down and you're a tough loving saint! Blegggghh.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @11:24AM (1 child)
You don't understand welfare. [spectator.co.uk]
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday January 22 2018, @05:51AM
Yes, yes, and the Klan was largely Democrats once. What's your point? Times change, people change.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...