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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: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Monday January 22 2018, @10:10PM
Fun to remember, fun to tell...
In 1989 I did spend a week on trains in Denmark, Sweden and Norway, the Norwegians were all drunk at the time (fresh influx of oil money, heavily taxed $9/bottle beer on their corn flakes in the morning), the Swedes generally wouldn't talk to me, but the Danes were all about bitching about their tax structure, how the working people were taxed so heavily to take care of the children and elderly. I think every single Dane I spoke with, except maybe the high school girl on her way to counsel at a summer camp in California, but the other 4 or 5 all brought up that complaint at some point or another, a couple of them didn't talk about anything else.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end