Something unusual happened at Davos this year. The elites started talking about sharing. Not actually sharing, but talking about it. The annual World Economic Forum in Switzerland is an irony built on an irony. There was a time when global elites really did think it was they who would solve the world's problems. That was back when people did as they were told. Nowadays the noble idea that an exchange of ideas — which is what Davos is all about — will better humanity is wearing a bit thin. The elites are increasingly seen as being out of touch. It's out of their hands now as ordinary people challenge the status quo. As recently as five years ago, openly discussing sharing wealth would have been seen as sedition. The redistribution suggestion came from no less a luminary than International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde. Had Lagarde taken Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century with her on her December holidays? Had she had an attack of conscience? Maybe she was tel...
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