Since the last time top politicians, billionaires and CEOs gathered in the Swiss mountain village of Davos to discuss the world’s biggest problems and pitch their solutions to them, the Coronavirus pandemic was a blip on the radar for all countries other than China, the European economy was humming, and the war between Ukraine and Russia was probably only a shadow of a plan in the mind of Putin.
But two years later, the world turned topsy-turvy as the COVID-19 pandemic touched every continent, and Russia invaded Ukraine. But for the elite and powerful attending Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum, very little, except their bank balances, has changed. The rest of the world has felt the economic squeeze, and inequality rose astronomically for the first time in decades.
Jenny Ricks of the Fight Inequality Alliance spoke on Radio Islam International and said most people had not missed it as most were busy trying to survive the economic downfall whilst enduring unimaginable loss of family, friends and colleagues.