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Project Davos: What's the Single Best Way to Close the World's Wealth Gap?

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

AnonTechie writes:

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: 1) by khallow on Tuesday January 23 2018, @01:16AM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 23 2018, @01:16AM (#626373) Journal
    And yet, so what? You've made a lifestyle choice when you could have made a choice with lower costs of living. I don't see even the slightest reason to have the state pay for that when you can pay instead.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @10:16PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @10:16PM (#626801)

    You are a true sociopath, if you led the country we'd be back to the dark ages by supper time. Who cares about community? I need better efficiency for my Excel bean counting!

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday January 23 2018, @10:33PM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 23 2018, @10:33PM (#626813) Journal

      You are a true sociopath, if you led the country we'd be back to the dark ages by supper time.

      And if we were still running on feelz like you desire, we would have never left the Dark Ages.

      When you're demanding something that society has to pay a lot for, you need to have a better justification than what JoeMerchant presented here. There's a lot of bad lifestyle choices out there presented as economic necessity. For example, most farm subsidies are partially rationalized on the basis that it protects a way of life.

      Well, my view is that if your way of life costs so much that you are unwilling to pay for it, then that means you don't want it enough to justify me paying for it either.