percent of the wealth is owned by one percent of the population so perhaps we can talk a little bit more in the conversation about how we leverage that when i can see you want to jump in here but first i m going to go to hell or if you hadn t had an opportunity to talk at and you were you actually wrote the article from which we got our title today a fourth social revolution it s a topic that you really can focus on also when you re working with families who are reliant on social benefits what inspired you to take on this cause and what is a for social revolution what s the vision so i think i work in communities i want to committees across the world but the last ten years in the u.k. with. many many people for whom it s really obvious that the brilliant welfare systems that we designed after the second world war no longer work because they have health conditions which can t be met because we ve got aging populations because the world of work is changing so fast what s really clear is
into this working world we can do it it s absolutely possible and to your point i mean there are stakeholders in the room here there are people who can influence change so hilary let me turn to you what do you see as the catalyst to inspire the social revolution you talked about the fact that there is this feeling of disenfranchised yes among many also here at the world economic forum we ve been hearing all this week that the economic outlook is not as rosy as it was in the past years what do you see potentially on the horizon to get this changed well nothing changes about the vision and actually i think the vision has to be positive we don t join something that is about i don t know kind of losing something and we need i mean the biggest challenge of course is the environment we need something that is organized around a small green revolution which we know will create jobs which will create different standards of living so we have a big vision we have to paint in a way that everybody
opportunity to talk to and hillary you actually wrote the article from which we got our title today a fourth social revolution it s a topic that you ve really been focused on also on when you re working with families who are reliant on social benefits what inspired you to take on this cause and what is up for social revolution what s the vision so i think i work in communities i work in communities across the world but the last ten years in the u.k. with. many many people for whom it s really obvious that the brilliant welfare systems that we designed after the second world war no longer work because they have health conditions which can t be met because we ve got aging populations because the world of work is changing so fast what s really clear is that in every industrial revolution we have a social revolution and actually what s also really important to win his point is that there is always a moment with every industrial revolution where inequality grows where there s
a woman there called pratham mom she lost her twins very recently because her and local clinic didn t have medicine didn t have a doctor but that s a country where billionaires happening creased. they could double would but it s also the country with one of the lowest investments in health care for my children didn t have to diet but so we re in a world where governments do not tax where else enough do not tax the rich enough they are now them to door to have paying their fair share of taxes and in the meantime and public services are crumbling health and education in rich and in poor countries and that s definitely something that we re going to talk about in this conversation when we talk about some action oriented approaches but first i d like to turn to you bob because you are running one of the lord s world margins on a day in consulting firms you re on a panel right now want to social revolution tell us where does business fit into
for the sake of unity can we make these changes? and i couldn t say no to dr. king and we made the changes. let s not forget we re involved in an era of social revolution. even with the compromises john lewis s speech on april 28, 1963 was fierce, though you have a forgotten in the shadow of dr. king s dream. we don t want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now. in the years after the march on washington, lewis and snick concentrated on registering black voters. the idea is we got more people participating in government and bringing about changes, if we got more people registered to vote so they could practice their fundamental rights. in mississippi during the summer of 1964, the students tried to register voters, with violent repercussions. and in selma, alabama nick