This guy is not getting invited back to the World Economic Forum 😂😂😂 🔊 "1500 private jets have flown in here to hear Sir David Attenborough speak about how we're wrecking the planet." "It feels like I'm at a firefighters conference and nobody is allowed to talk about water."

The climate change movement should not be taken seriously so long as the elites are buying beachside property and cruising around in private jets.

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This guy should get a medal, good for him for speaking up. It is insane to hear the hypocrites talk.

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it would be great if people specifically talked about the “loopholes” as well as politicians when they make laws it annoys me because if you just say “wealthy should pay fair share” but don’t talk about the actual mechanics of how they aren’t, you get braindead talking points

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An angry historian ripped the ultrarich over tax avoidance at Davos. Then one was given the mic. Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian and author who studies poverty and global inequality, had a first this year: being invited to the world’s most prominent gathering of wealthy people — the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Switzerland — as a speaker. But after arriving in Davos, the small town in the Swiss Alps where the conference is held, the 30-year-old felt there was something missing from the conversations he had been having over the course of the week. “I had this uncomfortable feeling,” he said in a phone interview. “Could I really talk about my book and basic income but not address the elephant in the room?” The elephant was the issue of taxes, or, more specifically, how wealthy people around the world work to avoid paying them, Bregman said. The issue has shot to international prominence in recent years after disclosures such as the Panama Papers, amid tensions over rising levels of global inequality. And it has galvanized the political conversation in the United States after a congresswoman from Queens — perhaps you can guess which one — floated the idea of returning the United States to a country where incomes above $10 million were taxed at high rates. But Bregman believed there wasn’t enough discussion about it at Davos. So he decided to say something during the panel discussion about income inequality he was on, hosted by Time magazine on Friday. He started by saying that he found the conference’s mix of indulgence and global problem-solving a bit bewildering. “I mean 1,500 private jets have flown in here to hear Sir David Attenborough speak about how we’re wrecking the planet," he said. "I hear people talking the language of participation and justice and equality and transparency. But then almost no one raises the real issue of tax avoidance. And of the rich just not paying their fair share. It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference and no one is allowed to speak about water. “This is not rocket science,” he said. “We can talk for a very long time about all these stupid philanthropy schemes, we can invite Bono once more, but, come on, we got to be talking about taxes. That’s it. Taxes, taxes, taxes — all the rest is bulls---, in my opinion.” The discussion drew a sharp response from former Yahoo chief financial officer Ken Goldman, who was at the forum. Goldman stood up to ask a question — it was really more of a comment, really — to critique the discussion about taxes. “I have to say, honestly, this is a very one-sided panel,” Goldman said, noting the United States' low unemployment rate. “We’ve actually reduced poverty around the world; no one’s talking about that at all.” Another panelist, Oxfam International executive director Winnie Byanyima, forcefully rebutted Goldman’s remarks, pointing to the story of a worker named Dolores from a poultry processing plant. Dolores, she said, told Oxfam that she and her co-workers had to wear diapers to work because they were prevented from taking bathroom breaks while working. A ride-hailing app driver she had ridden with recently in Kenya told her he could only afford to share a room with two other drivers; they slept in turns. “This is in the richest country in the world,” Byanyima said of the United States. “Those are the jobs we’ve been told about, that ‘globalization is bringing jobs.’ The quality of the jobs matter. It matters! These are not jobs of dignity.” (Continue reading below👇🏼)

Brave man, well played 👏

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The problem with the world is governments don’t have enough of the peoples money. Got it.