The Davos dance

Leaders around the world are gathering in the warm, cosy and luxurious halls in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss the social and economic issues their subjects are facing back home. Has this event not become an annual ritual for world leaders and business tycoons to gather, discuss and depart to meet again next year? What are the world’s immigrants getting from Davos?
Obviously both Europe and Australia cannot afford this never-ending influx of mostly economic migrants. Both Australia and Italy are not accepting any more of these people. Boats and ships carrying migrants are being diverted, sometimes to death, to other countries. Every other month, we hear of a human tragedy unfolding at the high seas. Keeping aside the tall claims and rhetoric we will soon hear from Davos, the fact is that the world is getting divided along the lines of the haves and have-nots. According to Oxfam, soon the world’s wealthiest one percent will possess more than the rest of all the inhabitants on earth. What does that mean? It means an abject failure of the global economic order. We do not need Davos but some real action to bring back the world from great economic failure.
Masood Khan
Jubail
Saudi Arabia