This historian called out billionaires at Davos over tax avoidance and he’s everyone’s hero right now
A Dutch historian called Rutger Bregman has gone viral after he used a session at the Davos World Economic Forum to take billionaires to task for not paying tax.
Bregman started off by noting how 1,500 people had travelled by private jet to listen to David Attenborough warn about climate change.
Then he really warmed to his theme.
“I hear people talking the language of participation, justice, equality and transparency but almost no one raises the real issue of tax avoidance, right? And of the rich just not paying their fair share.
“It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference and no one’s allowed to speak about water.”
‘It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference and no one’s allowed to speak about water.’ — This historian wasn’t afraid to confront the billionaires at Davos about their greed pic.twitter.com/TiXSJZd89M
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) January 29, 2019
And this is what people made of it.
Please please please watch this https://t.co/rMzF4b69Ys
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) January 29, 2019
This is so brilliant. Can't agree more. Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.
— Stephen Forster (@Stephen_Forster) January 29, 2019
Fantastic work, @rcbregman https://t.co/f0WDWKwrmk
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) January 29, 2019
He made have made a good comment but SHE Winnie Byanyima the Executive Director of Oxfam International made the best points!
— K Scarpetta (@miltonawalleye) January 29, 2019
Watch the whole video. It's an education. https://t.co/cw15uZNeso
— Kay Cannon (@KayKayCannon) January 29, 2019
The smugness of Yahoo dude. 😡
— EastieStrong (@eastiestrong) January 29, 2019
I guess I’m into bigamy now because I will be marrying both of these people pic.twitter.com/YwdxUBM66m
— Hannah Jane Parkinson (@ladyhaja) January 29, 2019
Where can we vote for him?
Here’s the long version of what I tried to make clear in Davos. Most wealth is not created at the top, but merely devoured there. https://t.co/iSZlcJssaa #wef19
— Rutger Bregman (@rcbregman) January 27, 2019
