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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: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday January 24 2018, @10:56PM (9 children)
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)
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)
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.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday January 25 2018, @07:17AM (4 children)
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)
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)
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)
"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
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)
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.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:04AM
I'm not suffering. You may be, but I am not.