The Davos Question We Should be Making a Better World, Not Just Making Videos About It
By G. Melesaine

I was supposed to do a Youtube video response for the Davos question. What is the Davos Question? And what is Davos for that matter. Davos is a place in Switzerland where every year there is a World Economic Forum. This is where all global leaders meet and discuss how to create a better world by setting an economic agenda and other things. The question that Youtubers are going mad crazy responding to is: What one thing that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?

Doing research on this Davos thing, it was said that security for this meeting cost about 5.4 million dollars. I understand that there are some pretty "high up" people attending this so I'm kind of somewhere in between having high cost security and not having it because if security was that needy, I don't really think the right people are there discussing how to make the world a better place. There's a lot of money that goes into this meeting and hopefully there's inherently some incentives for, which I'm unsure of, but I'd like to believe that these global leaders really want to make this world a better place. Maybe I'm just being skeptical, but when there's so much money to discuss economics, it just sounds like an investment to me, by rich people.

When I look at all the video posts to this answer from Americans, I see a lot of people in America forgetting about America. They forget about their own country's struggles because there's a lot of things here that blind us to see it. Its normal for police brutality in certain places, its normal that children in low income environments get a lesser education than a child that lives in a high income environment, kids going to prison and other children committing the same crime seeing no time. Lima, Ohio. An innocent woman is killed by the police and her 14 month baby is also shot with no consequences from the shooter, that has become normal. And I'm saying "normal" in the context of people who read news like this, act like it's a regular thing because it happens too often. If we rewind time to about 50 years ago the same thing was also happening, except no media covered it. The same thing.

I think to really make the world a better place, we have to look at ourselves, why we treat people the way we do, why we love certain people and hate others. Though this may sound corny as hell, the change has to come within ourselves first, what we believe is right and wrong. I'm not perfect and I also have some things in my past that prove my flaws but I'm trying to better it today. And that's my answer to the Davos question. I think if we make better within of today or at least try there should be a visible shift in the world becoming better. I hope those CEOs/global leaders take a look at themselves and their incentives because everyone has potential to be good no matter how long it takes. But hey people say that everyday, "change has to come within ourselves" and it's a regular corny thing for people to say that and a regular corny thing to hear that. Regular corny things come and go.