High in the Alps, Plutocrats Play at Pondering

[marmar]

from Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality:


High in the Alps, Plutocrats Play at Pondering
January 26, 2014

At the annual retreat of our global elites, the world’s wealthy wring their hands over the widening inequality they so relentlessly widen.

By Sam Pizzigati




Every January our global corporate and financial executive superstars, accompanied by assorted heads of state and deep thinkers, make the trek up the Alps to the Swiss village of Davos. They don’t come to party, though they do their share of imbibing. They come instead to “solve” the world’s problems.

Through five days of workshops and lectures, these swells discuss and debate. Hundreds of reporters intently track their deliberations. The whole world listens.

The irony in all this problem solving? The world faces no greater problem than the concentrated wealth and power the men of Davos hold in their hands and stuff in their pockets, an irony never more obvious than at this year’s edition of the annual Davos “World Economic Forum.”

This year’s Davos confab opened last Wednesday just after the release of a Davos 700-expert survey that named our world’s “chronic gap” between rich and poor the risk “most likely to cause serious damage globally” in the decade ahead. .....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://toomuchonline.org/high-in-the-alps-plutocrats-play-at-pondering/#sthash.DYtJhNKw.dpuf

[xchrom]

1. they should ponder this

[marmar]

2. D'accord, mon ami.

[democratisphere]

3. The men of Davos can't horde ALL OF THE WEALTH......

and expect to have consumers to buy their products too! QUESTION: Does EXTREME WEALTH create tremendous stupidity?

[Armstead]

4. It causes a narrowing of ones viewpoint

I think a number of those jerks think what they are doing is good for the world.

There is a disconnect between their own self interest and the interests of the majority of the world population. But they don;t get it.

Perhaps its willful denial.