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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: 4, Insightful) by julian on Saturday January 20 2018, @11:25PM (9 children)

    by julian (6003) on Saturday January 20 2018, @11:25PM (#625392)

    Ripping yarn, and also totally irrelevant. Other people suffered worse and succeeded in the past, therefore we shouldn't do anything to mitigate suffering or unfairness today. That's a fallacy (relative privation [wikipedia.org]).

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @11:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @11:46PM (#625403)

    Yours is the assumption that a list or fallacies is relevant outside of a high school debate team contest. Scoring points isn't the goal here.

    In the real world, relative privation actually matters. I can and I will dismiss the idea that things are so bad and terrible now.

  • (Score: 0, Troll) by khallow on Sunday January 21 2018, @03:00AM (7 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 21 2018, @03:00AM (#625496) Journal
    What isn't a fallacy is the observation that in the past people routinely fixed their own problems without requiring a government nanny and these problems were in general worse than the problems that we are demanding government fix now.

    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @09:20AM (6 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @09:20AM (#625580)

      This is just wrong. Seriously, self-deluding wrong. Who do you think gave (note, gratis, if not under the Homestead Act) land to these "self-sufficient" subsistence farmers? Yes, the government, after they got done stealing it from its native occupants and rightful owners. So I am going to demand, as a Native American, the right to self-help in pushing these damn Washita off my land, and I demand you withdraw the government subsidies (Farm price supports, the entire Dept. of Ag.) from them, and any protection by armed forces or police. "Without requiring a government nanny"!! What the fuck are you, some Vienna Circle Libertarian Sophmoron?

      • (Score: 0, Troll) by khallow on Sunday January 21 2018, @11:54AM (5 children)

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 21 2018, @11:54AM (#625613) Journal

        Who do you think gave (note, gratis, if not under the Homestead Act) land to these "self-sufficient" subsistence farmers?

        Themselves. Farms don't spontaneous form out of the aether.

        Yes, the government, after they got done stealing it from its native occupants and rightful owners.

        What makes you think the native occupants owned the land? Where's the foundation for that assertion?

        So I am going to demand, as a Native American, the right to self-help in pushing these damn Washita off my land, and I demand you withdraw the government subsidies (Farm price supports, the entire Dept. of Ag.) from them, and any protection by armed forces or police.

        Non sequiturs don't help your argument a bit. You can demand whatever you want to demand in a land of free speech. Just don't be surprised when the rest of us don't care.

        "Without requiring a government nanny"!! What the fuck are you, some Vienna Circle Libertarian Sophmoron?

        The language is appropriate, so not seeing the need to care that you're worked up over "government nanny".

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @08:20PM (4 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @08:20PM (#625775)

          So yes, you are a libertarian moron. Thanks for clearing that up! Your persistent adherence to ignorance leaves only simple derision as an option. Though people routinely try to help you anyway.

          • (Score: 0, Troll) by khallow on Sunday January 21 2018, @11:46PM (3 children)

            by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 21 2018, @11:46PM (#625878) Journal

            So yes, you are a libertarian moron. Thanks for clearing that up! Your persistent adherence to ignorance leaves only simple derision as an option. Though people routinely try to help you anyway.

            Ah yes, the gracious way of announcing to the world that you've lost the argument.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 22 2018, @10:31PM (2 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 22 2018, @10:31PM (#626288)

              Moron :) I wasn't the one arguing the point, that person gave up when it became obvious you were just soapboxing and denying things you don't like.

              • (Score: 0, Troll) by khallow on Monday January 22 2018, @10:48PM (1 child)

                by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 22 2018, @10:48PM (#626304) Journal
                No problem here. Rationalize it however you'd like.

                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @10:39PM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @10:39PM (#626816)

                  That is exactly what you are doing. Basically take every insult you hurl and if you're honest you'll find out you're mad at yourself.