Davos: G21 tribal elder Bill Clinton’s $60,000 platinum Rolex points towards wealth redistribution
How’s life treating the great and good in Davos? Last time a mountain people were on the news, it was the Yazidis up Sinjar “mountain of death”. Is the G21 Tribe fairing any better?
Kevin Williamson writes:
“The stories add up: Jeff Greene brings multiple nannies on his private jet to Davos, and the rest of the guys gathered to talk past each other about the plight of the working man scarf down couture hot-dogs that cost forty bucks. Bill Clinton makes the case for wealth-redistribution while sporting a $60,000 platinum Rolex.”
Felix Salmon was in Davos:
It’s not like CEOs and billionaires (and billionaire CEOs) need any more flattery and ego-stroking than they get on a daily basis, but Davos gives them more than that: it allows them to flatter and ego-stroke each other, in public. They invariably leave even more puffed-up and sure of themselves than when they arrived, when in hindsight what the world really needed was for these men (it’s still very much a boys’ club) to be shaken out of their complacency and to ask themselves some tough questions about whether in fact they were leading us off a precipice.
We can point up at them and laugh at the moral maze. But these graspers and super-rich are the people who affect our lives and chances to make an honest living that’s not all about raking piles of money in a moral vaccuum. Davos matters to us…
Posted: 25th, January 2015 | In: Money Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
