I thought a lot of the problems presented were irrelevant to Davos. The world's rich and powerful aren't the reason there's a housing shortage blocking young and low-income earners from buying a house in this country, neither are they the reason nobody wants to buy skull ceramics for that matter.
I think the primary focus of the summit at the moment will probably be the continued restructuring of neo-liberal financial markets and the future distribution of world aggregate demand. Many of our problems are unique to us or Europe, like high youth unemployment owing to crap education and a culture of entitlement; so no, I don't think it's some sort of conspiracy. You have to remember that everybody has gotten richer over the past 3 decades, it's just the rich have gotten richer quicker than the average punter.
I do fret at the influence some heads of multinationals, that are richer than most countries have over elected leaders, however.