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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: 0, Troll) by Sulla on Sunday January 21 2018, @01:25AM (2 children)
Nobody actually *needs* more than 30k a year. We need to do something about these worthless American, European, and Japanese super wealthy. People in those countries are able to pay for electricity and internet, and they FLAUNT it to the rest of the world, it is unequal and unequatable. We need to take 90% of what every person in the first world makes and distribute it to the rest of the world. The rest of the world has to work significantly harder to get by, there is no reason for some fat bastard in Germany of France to only have to work 30 hours a week.
#ithastoend
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @01:39AM (1 child)
I could live in reasonable comfort in the US for $10k a year. That's less than $30 per day. That's with no health care or car though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @12:22PM
with no health care or car
Keep the vehicle but give up paying rent/mortgage.
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