Ep.18 - The Two Faces of Davos

“Rebuilding Trust in the Future»” was the theme of the latest edition of the World Economic Forum, held like every year in Davos. This title immediately sounded vague when considering our present time of constant crises and the earthquake that is shaking globalization itself. Despite this, the meeting continued to show its “good side”: a cavalcade of abstract rhetoric, incapable of grasping the challenges of our time – from the environmental emergency to the crisis of global production chains. But the Forum has two faces, the second of which reveals a beehive crawling with private agreements and exchanges of favors between companies and states. The ambivalence of Davos is a perfect mirror of our present, of its deepest contradictions and of the inactivity, which restricts any attempt at change.