Nearly 2,500 global leaders from business, politics and civil society are expected to convene this week in Switzerland’s luxury Alpine ski resort of Davos. On the agenda will be issues including Covid-19, Russia’s war in Ukraine and the climate crisis.

Dutch historian Rutger Bregman’s epic rant against the super-rich in front of the super-rich at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos has turned the 30-year-old into a viral social media star.

Davos 2018 has emerged as a bastion for anti-Silicon Valley sentiment. The 2016 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, took place in a more innocent age. Donald Trump had not yet assumed control of the White House, and Silicon Valley was still considered a protagonist in the American landscape, beloved of users and lawmakers alike. The year’s theme was “the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” and the soiree centered on emerging technologies, which seemed to presage an era of unprecedented possibility.