We don't need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.
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The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.
It's one thing to recognize that the gap between the rich and everybody else is growing like a cancer; it's another thing to come up with useful solutions.
The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.
In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.
Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.
I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.
We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they've ever been at any time in our history, we've also got the biggest gap between the rich and the poor that we've ever had, and we've potentially got a planet which is going to go bust any day.
Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.
The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.