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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 22 2018, @10:38PM
Only idiots like you buy into social darwinism. All the examples of poor people managing to claw their way out of a system designed against them won't change your mind, you cling to the idea of "welfare mamas" and ignore the ways we could solve those problems.
Do you know WHY there is a welfare trap? Because Republicans are assholes that refuse to be decent human beings, so all the welfare programs were encumbered with "reasonable" measures trying to bring accountability back in. So, if a single mother gets a part time job then she can no longer receive benefits. However, if her benefits pay more than the job then she obviously won't take the job! Thank you assholes for making it difficult for people to improve their own situation, good job, golf claps all around! I also just really enjoy having the assholes who set up the system for failure use that to destroy it even further.
You are the type of person making the world a worse place and by god you think up is down and you're a tough loving saint! Blegggghh.