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It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life.

But beginners to the World Economics Forum have to understand there is no single Davos experience, and there is no single Davos community either. There are numerous tribes who interact only at a minimal level.

It turns out that the rich are much better placed to feed at the public trough. The poor get crumbs.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people.

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth.