I’m a millionaire – this is why I’m at Davos begging to pay more tax

Phil White at Davos: ‘This is about our personal values and the kind of society we want to live in.’ Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images

As a member of Patriotic Millionaires UK, I’m a self-confessed wealthy individual who spends a lot of time repeatedly asking the government to increase taxes on my wealth and the wealth of people like me.

This week, that message has brought me to snowy Davos, where the World Economic Forum (WEF) meets annually to discuss major economic concerns. The current theme of “cooperation in a fragmented world” sounds great, so why did I feel it necessary to join a protest hike against it? The answer to that question lies in what I and others see as the root of that “fragmentation” – the worrying wealth extremism that goes neglected by the Davos elite.