President Trump will attend the meeting in Davos this evening.
At Davos, issues have been discussed, on the global scale. The topics include taxes, regulations, entrepreneurship, investments, trade, education, climate change, security, etc among others. Meanwhile, thousands protested against the participants of the summit in Switzerland that are responsible for the current systems of the economy and the society.
While they talk mostly of the success of the US economy and its model, here are things that are not discussed at the meeting. Wealth disparity. Social services. Equality. Welfare of the rest of us. There are things that can not be privatized. Those services are of public nature. Without the public support, the inhibitory costs overwhelms the whole entire industry, economy, and society. Healthcare. Education. Security.
In this capitalistic state of ours, those services are not fully supported by the state. The insufficient amount of the public support on those areas makes not only our lives hard, makes the costs of supplying those services sky high. The healthcare services are so expensive that the life expectancy in poorer communities is ten years shorter than in rich ones. The cost of college education is so expensive that the student loans exceed the credit card loans. In maintaining the security, companies and individuals must pay so much more than any of the OECD countries on earth. Which is apparently not good enough in protecting citizens against not only from terrorists but against those in their own communites. The lack of public transportation systems have driven the auto-manufactures investing in not yet practically feasible automatic driving.
Making money on those public services is unethical and, most of all, inefficient. All other OECD nations can provide much more cost efficient healthcare services on public basis. The global competitiveness of schools show more efficient investments in education on public basis. Providing security on private bases by hiring security guards and building gated communities push up the cost of opening and running an office way high. The crime rates are still at the highest level in all OECD nations. Those services are of public nature. Those services need more support on the public basis.
The success of the all other developed nations, which probably are not the topics of conversation at the meeting, should be of the rest of us.
At Davos, issues have been discussed, on the global scale. The topics include taxes, regulations, entrepreneurship, investments, trade, education, climate change, security, etc among others. Meanwhile, thousands protested against the participants of the summit in Switzerland that are responsible for the current systems of the economy and the society.
While they talk mostly of the success of the US economy and its model, here are things that are not discussed at the meeting. Wealth disparity. Social services. Equality. Welfare of the rest of us. There are things that can not be privatized. Those services are of public nature. Without the public support, the inhibitory costs overwhelms the whole entire industry, economy, and society. Healthcare. Education. Security.
In this capitalistic state of ours, those services are not fully supported by the state. The insufficient amount of the public support on those areas makes not only our lives hard, makes the costs of supplying those services sky high. The healthcare services are so expensive that the life expectancy in poorer communities is ten years shorter than in rich ones. The cost of college education is so expensive that the student loans exceed the credit card loans. In maintaining the security, companies and individuals must pay so much more than any of the OECD countries on earth. Which is apparently not good enough in protecting citizens against not only from terrorists but against those in their own communites. The lack of public transportation systems have driven the auto-manufactures investing in not yet practically feasible automatic driving.
Making money on those public services is unethical and, most of all, inefficient. All other OECD nations can provide much more cost efficient healthcare services on public basis. The global competitiveness of schools show more efficient investments in education on public basis. Providing security on private bases by hiring security guards and building gated communities push up the cost of opening and running an office way high. The crime rates are still at the highest level in all OECD nations. Those services are of public nature. Those services need more support on the public basis.
The success of the all other developed nations, which probably are not the topics of conversation at the meeting, should be of the rest of us.