1% Dine in Davos as Latin America Pulls People Out of Poverty

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By Cyril Mychalejko
Source: teleSUR English
January 24, 2015

The world’s billionaires and political elites have swooped into the Swiss resort town of Davos in about 1,700 private jets this week to rub elbows at cocktail parties and glad-hand at the annual World Economic Forum. Some time after paying at least $71,000 to get there, and in between networking and sealing business deals, these world leaders are also expected to solve some of the globe’s most pressing problems as outlined in the World Economic Forum Global Risks 2015 report.

But Alex Scrivener, policy officer at the U.K.-based social justice organization Global Justice Now, isn’t buying what they’re selling.

“Davos is all about casting the super rich as being the good guys, the heroes. It’s about perpetuating the myth that the rich can save the world with their kindness and philanthropy,” Scrivener told teleSUR.

Scrivener wrote a report “The poor are getting richer, and other dangerous delusions,” to debunk many of the myths these world leaders will be marketing to the world, namely free market, corporate run economic policies.

http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/dangerous-delusions

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1. Excessively wealthy people are a disruptive influence on any democracy

These excessively wealthy people are more disruptive to a peaceful society than any terrorist. They should be treated as the very dangerous people they really are.

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2. They seem to forget they're part of that democracy .......

or maybe they aren't anymore.