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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 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!