Why The Internet Loves And Hates Oxfam's Global Inequality Report
The annual report is intended for the rich and powerful who gather in Davos to talk about world poverty. And it causes the Twittersphere to flare up.
by Tom Murphy
Jan 24, 2018
4 minutes
President Trump will join other world leaders later this week in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum. It is a decades-old event that is roundly mocked for hosting the world's richest and most powerful people in fancy chalets while they talk about the problems that affect the world's poor.
It may best be summed up by the sign at this year's event that directs people toward a refugee exhibit and the location of private car pickups.
Oxfam has seized on this disconnect by publishing an annual report on global inequality to coincide with the meeting. It hopes to pressure the attendees to take
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