Meet the folk hero of Davos: the writer who told the rich to stop dodging taxes

Meet the folk hero of Davos: the writer who told the rich to stop dodging taxes

Rutger Bregman. One of the biggest stars to come out of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week wasn’t a CEO or a head of state or a venture capitalist. It was Rutger Bregman, a Dutch journalist and historian, who used his speaking time at the conference to lambaste the rich attendees for failing to talk about the one thing we know could fight wealth inequality : raising taxes for the kind of people who go to Davos.

A video of his righteous rant went viral; the tweet below has nearly 47,000 retweets: ‘It feels like I’m at […]

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