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A focus group at the World Economic Forum in Davos became sensational after a Dutch historian blamed the billionaires for not paying taxes.
In a video shared tens of thousands of times, Rutger Bregman, author of the book Utopia for Realists, deplores the failure of participants at the recent meeting in Switzerland to tackle the key issue of the fight for greater equality: the rich fail to pay their fair share of taxes.
Noting that 1,500 people had traveled to Davos in a private jet to hear David Attenborough talk about climate change, he was stunned that no one is talking about raising taxes for the rich.
"I hear people talking about language of participation, justice, equality and transparency, but hardly anyone raises the real problem of tax evasion, is not it? ? And rich people who do not pay their fair share, "Bregman told Time magazine's panel on inequality.
"It's like I'm at a firefighters conference and no one's allowed to talk about water."
The industry needs to "stop talking about philanthropy and start talking about taxes," he said, citing the high US 50s tax regime as an example to refute the arguments put forward by Davos businessmen such as Michael Dell, that strongly taxed personal income economies could not succeed. "That's all," he says. "Taxes, taxes, taxes. All the rest is bullshit in my opinion.
An audience member, Yahoo's former chief financial officer, Ken Goldman, challenged his remarks by saying that it was a "one-way panel." He claimed that the fiscal parameters of the global economy had been fruitful and had created a record number of jobs.
But another committee member, Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam, resumed the fight and said the high rate of employment was not a good thing in itself, as many people found themselves in exploitation. She cited the example of poultry workers in the United States who had to wear diapers because they were not allowed to go to the bathroom.
"It's not a dignified job," she said. "These are the jobs we've been told, that globalization creates jobs. Job quality matters. In many countries, workers no longer have a voice.
S addressing Goldman, she said, "You count the bad things. You do not count the dignity of people. You count the exploited people. "
Billions of dollars have been released every year through tax evasion, which should rather help reduce poverty in developing countries, she added.
After the Bregman sign tweeted a link According to an opinion piece that he had written for The Guardian in 2017, "most wealth is not created at the top, but simply devoured there."
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