A tecnologia está a avançar aos saltos e aos pulos — e a desigualdade económica também, diz a escritora Chrystia Freeland. Numa palestra apaixonante, descreve a ascensão duma nova classe de plutocratas (os que são extremamente poderosos porque são extremamente ricos) e sugere que são a globalização e as novas tecnologias que estão a alimentar, em vez de reduzir, o fosso dos rendimentos globais. Freeland sublinha três problemas com a plutocracia... e um lampejo de esperança.

A ascensão dos novos super-ricos mundiais

Economic inequality is skyrocketing as technology and globalization create vast fortunes for a select few, leaving the middle class increasingly hollowed out. The wealth of the top 0.1 percent in the United States now rivals where the top 1 percent was just decades ago, and two billionaires once held as much wealth as the bottom 40 percent combined. While globalization has lifted millions out of poverty worldwide, it has also outsourced jobs from Western economies and weakened social mobility. Real change will require ambitious new policies to ensure prosperity is widely shared.