Reward Work, Not Wealth: To end the inequality crisis, we must build an economy for ordinary working people, not the rich and powerful.
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2018-01-22Keywords
Corporate taxationEconomic growth
Education
Fair trade
Finance
Gender inequality
Healthcare
Labour standards
SDGs
Supply chainsTax dodgingTaxationUnpaid careWomen's economic empowermentWomen's rightsLabour rightsHuman economyDavos 2018
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Last year saw the biggest increase in billionaires in history, one more every two days. This huge increase could have ended global extreme poverty seven times over. 82% of all wealth created in the last year went to the top 1%, and nothing went to the bottom 50%.
Dangerous, poorly paid work for the many is supporting extreme wealth for the few. Women are in the worst work, and almost all the super-rich are men. Governments must create a more equal society by prioritizing ordinary workers and small-scale food producers instead of the rich and powerful.