This week, over 2,700 world leaders attended the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. During their stay in the Swiss ski resort, elites from business, politics, and civil society have been discussing humanity’s most pressing problems under the theme of “Cooperation in a Fragmented World.”
If they want to inspire cooperation in our world’s very fractured geopolitical landscape, the answer is simple: end the age of extreme wealth and tax the rich. Or simply realize that the gulf between the super-rich and everyone else has grown too wide and will ultimately destroy our society.
