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For the majority of people of the planet, but not for the super, super rich, things have gone backwards since the first Davos meeting was held. That’s no coincidence as Davos - for all the ’progressive’ waffle about ‘stakeholder theory’ and the ’global public interest’ - is all about maintaining an elite-friendly, neoliberal economic order which has caused so much economic, social, cultural and environmental damage.

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China begins wooing the Middle East as they flex their geopolitical muscle; Davos misleaders talk automation as markets descend into chaos; and the public trades controlled news for controlled search engines.

China begins wooing the Middle East as they flex their geopolitical muscle; Davos misleaders talk automation as markets descend into chaos; and the public trades controlled news for controlled search engines.

Back in 2010, as the global charity Oxfam reminds us in a new report released on the eve of Davos 2016, the world’s 388 richest billionaires had a combined fortune that equaled the net worth of the poorest half of the world’s population.
But last year just 62 top billionaires had enough net worth to match the wealth of humanity’s poorest half. That bottom half totals some 3.6 billion people.
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