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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: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 23 2018, @03:21AM (18 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday January 23 2018, @03:21AM (#626406) Journal

    Dante wrote pornography, and I did not know the meaning of the word "pornography" before I read The Inferno...and, if it comes to that, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.

    Thanks for confirming what I had suspected all along about you but had only about a 75% confidence in my assessment, too. I knew you'd spill it eventually. Everything you say and do tells me. You're the one who keeps pre-emptively accusing me of being "broken." You're the one who's in such a hurry to declare yourself "not a victim" and absolve yourself of being a "victimizer." You are very much still a victim, and you would love to be a victimizer, as evidenced by your politics and your position on other people.

    Your "asocial" schtick isn't fooling anyone; you're messed up beyond belief, and instead of trying to at least kintsukuroi yourself back together like I did, you WALLOW in it. THAT is why I have no respect for you and would happily break your fragile psyche over my knee to prove a point: you have become what evil was done to you. I haven't.

    And THAT is the essential difference between us. I will never, ever, become what you have.

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    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday January 23 2018, @08:14AM (17 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 23 2018, @08:14AM (#626452) Journal

    Ho-hum. Same boring shit.

    • (Score: 2, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 23 2018, @03:41PM (16 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday January 23 2018, @03:41PM (#626581) Journal

      When you reply with things like this, it becomes obvious you are both annoyed and frightened. And feeling weak, else you wouldn't have this compulsive need to get the last word in. Runaway, really, it doesn't take a licensed, degreed psychologist to figure out that something is wrong with you and to make a broad guess as to what it is.

      --
      I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
      • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @06:16PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @06:16PM (#626678)

        It oozes out with his military recollections, I'm guessing abuse in the military is much more widespread than people let on. I mean really, who wants to be the sodomized soldier? Better to keep the "shame" in :( It is no excuse for becoming an amoral dipshit that pushes regressive republican politics. Progressive if you're rich though!

      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday January 23 2018, @10:54PM (14 children)

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 23 2018, @10:54PM (#626837) Journal

        Uhhhh - yeah. This, in a day and age, when half the schoolkids in America are diagnosed with SOMETHING. You go ahead, and assemble some "dream team" of psychobabble creatures to analyze me. Doesn't much matter what they have to say, I'll be laughing at them. Do you have any idea how much harder I laugh at some amateur psychologist who makes her analysis based on posts to the internet?

        Give it a break.

        https://www.cdc.gov/childrensmentalhealth/data.html [cdc.gov]

        Parent-reported information from the 2011-12 National Survey of Children’s Health showed that 1 out of 7 U.S. children aged 2 to 8 years had a diagnosed mental, behavioral, or developmental disorder (MBDD). Many family, community, and health-care factors were related to the children having MBDDs.

                Children with the following characteristics were more likely to have a MBDD:
                        Boys
                        Children age 6 to 8 years
                        Non-Hispanic white children
                Children were more likely to have a MBDD if they were from
                        poor families (those living at less than 100% of the federal poverty level) and
                        families that spoke English in the home

        If I really want to get serious about finding numbers, there are even more shocking numbers being thrown about. I remember reading that one in five adults are fucked up somehow.

        First, the numbers are less than credible. Second - being abnormal appears to be normal. Third - who in the FUCK decided what "normal" even means? Fourth - you people who dabble in psychobble are probably the craziest people there are! Why should any of the rest of us listen to you?

        Go ahead though - if being a part time amateur psychoanalyst amuses you, so be it.

        • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday January 24 2018, @03:47AM (13 children)

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday January 24 2018, @03:47AM (#626952) Journal

          Runaway, you don't get it...I don't need to expose you or your problems. You do a fine job of that on your own. Your dumb ass has some kind of compulsion to keep posting even when it would do you much more good to just shut up and take your lumps, and it's gotten to the point that completely anonymous commentators are starting to remark on how messed-up you seem to be.

          tl;dr: every time you post you reveal how screwed up you are.

          --
          I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
          • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday January 24 2018, @08:07AM (12 children)

            by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 24 2018, @08:07AM (#627046) Journal

            I'm a hetero white male - what is to expose? I'm exercising my privilege. You, on the other hand, don't get the same privileges that I do. Amirite?

            • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday January 24 2018, @09:41PM (11 children)

              by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday January 24 2018, @09:41PM (#627401) Journal

              Um, are you sure you haven't lost the thread here? That response was a complete non-sequitur. You're seriously starting to make me wonder if you have early-onset Alzheimers. I rather hope you do, as it would be some excuse for your complete lack of human decency.

              --
              I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
              • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday January 24 2018, @10:41PM (10 children)

                by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 24 2018, @10:41PM (#627435) Journal

                Nope, haven't lost the thread. I'm mocking you, and having fun. I kinda wish you were somewhere near, so that you could break me over your knee, LOL. Still waiting for you to put me in my place, like you did the carrion chicken guy, too.

                Maybe I should mention that I have sisters, and female cousins, and second cousins, etc ad nauseum. I've played this stuid game with them, you see. You go ahead, post meaningless shit at me, make accusations, maybe cry and whimper a little for third party sympathy, on and on it goes - and I can feed it right back at you. Most guys will get sick of it, and allow you to have the last word - just walk away from some stupid argument, in disgust.

                But, I can tolerate the smell of shit. You stir, and I'll stir, between us, we can raise a stink that very few others can bear to be near.

                Your turn. Post some more meaningless bullshit about how fucked up I am in the mind, and that I'll roast in hell, and you're the only person here qualified to comment on abused children - there's so much more. Keep it rolling!!

                Thread? There is no thread, because half of everything you post is absurd, and the rest is incredible. And, you can't figure out why you're labeled an SJW? You really need to read "SJW's Always Lie".

                • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday January 24 2018, @10:56PM (9 children)

                  by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday January 24 2018, @10:56PM (#627440) Journal

                  Ye gods, I'm just going to stand back and let you continue wharrgarbl'ing yourself into a frenzy. You're insane.

                  --
                  I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
                  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday January 24 2018, @11:54PM (8 children)

                    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 24 2018, @11:54PM (#627464) Journal

                    At least I'm not suffering from insanity. It is kinda cute, how you prompt a reply - any reply - then promply moderate it as flamebait or whatever. But, you have previously posted that you pride yourself on downmodding people with whom you agree. (again, that comment was in reference to the carrion chicken) Obviously, you take things far more seriously than you ought to.

                    As an aside - how sane do you think you are? And, how do you determine that your are fit to judge sanity? And, what if reality changes - will you still be fit to evaluate a person's sanity?

                    And, lastly - would you mind posting your psychobabble degree from an accredited liberal arts institution? I feel that I have a right to know how qualified my online psychobabblist is to babble at me.

                    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday January 25 2018, @03:26AM (5 children)

                      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday January 25 2018, @03:26AM (#627531) Journal

                      You missed the part where I said I'm not a degree'd or licensed psychologist, didn't you? If you believe my sheepskin I'm a geologist, not that I've touched a bloody rock since graduating the exact year the entire economy went to shit. I fix/build computers and sling Chinese food for a living...well, half a living each.

                      You know, you're not fooling anyone with these attempts to deflect the attention off yourself. What you say, how you say it, and the fact that you KEEP REPLYING TO THESE POSTS is what's making you look bad on here, not anything I said or did :) And you, like Uzzard, don't seem to be smart enough or enough of an adult to figure this out.

                      Do yourself a favor: make like an ABit Socket 754 mobo and stop posting.

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                      I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
                      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday January 25 2018, @07:17AM (4 children)

                        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 25 2018, @07:17AM (#627582) Journal

                        I missed nothing of the sort. You pretend to understand psychology, and you pretend to shoehorn people into your preconceived categories. What's the matter - when someone takes your own words, bends them out of shape, and posts them back at you, you don't like that? But - that's exactly what you do to people.

                        • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday January 25 2018, @08:40AM (3 children)

                          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday January 25 2018, @08:40AM (#627600) Journal

                          Oooookay, you've officially lost the thread. I'm sitting here watching you Taz-spin yourself into a self-righteous frenzy wondering when you're going to stop and listen to a word I've been saying. Not forecasting that for any time soon though. You really do not seem to understand that you are your own worst enemy...

                          --
                          I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
                          • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:07AM (2 children)

                            by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:07AM (#627635) Journal

                            It's you who don't "get it". You talk nonsense, just like a sister, I stick my thumbs in my ears, waggle my fingers, and chant back the nonsense you've been spewing. Worked up? Maybe one of us is, but it isn't me. The question is, how long do you want to continue your silly shit?

                            And, when was the last time you laid on the shrink's sofa,telling him/her about your various delusions?

                            • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday January 25 2018, @08:09PM (1 child)

                              by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday January 25 2018, @08:09PM (#627830) Journal

                              "I know you are but what am I" hasn't worked since second grade, Runaway. Do you really not understand the damage you're doing to yourself by continuing not only to reply to these posts but to do it in the most puerile, ineffective possible way?

                              Don't get me wrong, I'm all for letting my enemies hang themselves, but this is starting to make me feel guilty. Just a little, though.

                              --
                              I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
                              • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:14PM

                                by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:14PM (#627933) Journal

                                Well, if it hasn't worked since second grade, why don't you act like a third grader at least?

                                Don't worry about my self abuse, either. I haven't gone blind, and there is no hair growing on my palms. The priest lied to you!

                    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @08:34AM (1 child)

                      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @08:34AM (#627598)

                      At least I'm not suffering from insanity.

                      All the evidence, and the entire content of this seriously off-topic sub-thread, strongly suggests you are. Seek professional help. The VA should pay for it.