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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday January 20 2018, @10:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the eat-the-rich dept.

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

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2018/jan/19/project-davos-whats-the-single-best-way-to-close-the-worlds-wealth-gap

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 22 2018, @03:04PM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 22 2018, @03:04PM (#626087)

    Oh I see. You must not have been born in a public hospital and you started working right out of the womb. Then you never went to elementary school or high school. Must have been home schooled. Quite the early pull yourself up by the boot strings type. Very commendable.

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday January 22 2018, @04:00PM (7 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday January 22 2018, @04:00PM (#626110) Homepage Journal

    Can you genuinely not tell the difference between parents fulfilling the obligation they took on in having a child and someone actually owing a debt? What a fucking moron.

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    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 22 2018, @10:24PM (6 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 22 2018, @10:24PM (#626281)

      Every public system works only because you have aggregated enough people into it. The cost of educating you was not carried solely by your parents. Your share of public infrastructure is not carried only by you. You are whining about taxes, then when asked to pay us back for all the services used you switch to "I / my parents paid for it!" So taxes aren't theft when they are useful to you, but they are when you don't like them. You're such a fucking tool, hopefully fewer people argue with you and just mod you down to flamebait when you're being stupid.

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 23 2018, @05:25PM (5 children)

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday January 23 2018, @05:25PM (#626644) Homepage Journal

        Yes, it was. They paid what was asked of them in taxes. When you pay for something you are entitled to it. When you do not pay for something, you are not entitled to it. That's how "entitled" works.

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        • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @06:11PM (4 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @06:11PM (#626672)

          Still the fool I see. Was algebra hard? I'm just asking because you seem to have trouble thinking beyond a single simplistic dimension.

          Maybe this will help, "you need to pay back all the services you used at the market rate minus the discounted socially aggregated benefit rate." This also means that you must kill yourself (not saying you should do that, but if you want to square up with your idea of "taxes are theft" then its your only choice) to repay all the dead soldiers that fought for your right to freedom. I mean shit isn't free right? Why should you get "freedom" when you didn't do shit for it? You'll also need to bequeath all your money to slave reparations since a massive amount of infrastructure and wealth was generated by their labor. I mean you're not pro-slavery right? You believe people should be paid for their hard work right? Otherwise how will they ever be not poor?

          Oh, anything inherited is totally off limits. I mean why should you get any benefit from the work of others? You gotta earn that shit bro! So donate any inheritance to whatever government agency you love best, along with all the above, and we'll call it even. I mean, you aren't a THIEF right? Cause otherwise you'll just get shot, according to your rules anyway. We may have been able to work in a waiver for the death part, perhaps a lifetime repayment system where you get an extra 20% tax rate, but if you're stealing shit we gotta put you down!

          • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 23 2018, @06:18PM (3 children)

            by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday January 23 2018, @06:18PM (#626679) Homepage Journal

            You realize by this insane clown logic that you owe a moral and financial debt to Wal-Mart, Big Pharma, and even Big Tobacco, yes?

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            • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @06:36PM (2 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @06:36PM (#626684)

              I'm not the one trying to be a greedy bastard and avoid my responsibilities to my fellow citizens. I'm not the one supporting evil fuckers who play your greed for their own benefit. I am the one advocating for improving society with universal healthcare and higher taxes on the rich, and the data backs me up. Go ahead and cite whatever bullshit you'd like, make excuses, you'll still just be a greedy bastard advocating for an obviously broken system. You are just on the top of the garbage heap at this moment so you don't care what is below you, that is IF we believe your claims of personal success.

              • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 23 2018, @08:50PM (1 child)

                by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday January 23 2018, @08:50PM (#626752) Journal

                He claims he's a small business owner if I remember right. I'd be very interested in knowing which business that was, precisely...

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                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @10:22PM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @10:22PM (#626804)

                  Being an idiot he probably doesn't realize that proper tax adjustments wouldn't drown out small businesses, and hopefully would actually lower tax burdens for poor-middle-small-biz by having the megacorps and ultra rich pay their fair share. Guess he's just another temporarily embarrassed billionaire.