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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: 5, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Saturday January 20 2018, @10:53PM (2 children)
Oh, hey, and we're working on that with school vouchers, allowing the more wealthy to claw back their school tax dollars and put them together with private money to put their kids in more expensive schools than are provided for the general population. Also know that these privatized schools are essentially free to discriminate based on academic ability, mental and physical disability, and of course ability to pay. While these privatized schools pull away the better students, parents and teachers, the public school system will be shrinking in funding and ability to deliver a competitive education. It won't be long before we've got a major chunk of the population who simply can't access a competitive education due to circumstances of their birth, and that should go a long way toward keeping the poor in their place, unable to move up in the world for generations.
That is what we've been driving toward for the last 30 years, isn't it?
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @02:47AM (1 child)
It's so outrageous that successful people get to do what they want, just because they earned more than us! To have freedom, everybody else has to move at the rate of our dumbest and laziest and least capable like you! Otherwise it would UNFAIR!! Whaaa!
(Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday January 21 2018, @06:14AM
Did you know all those strawmen you burned are going to be waiting for you in Hell? And they have some creative ideas about where you can stuff all that hay...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...