Comment by sbuttgereit

Comment by sbuttgereit 9 hours ago

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It's a fair point. I actually posted the article mostly to get discussion... and before I realized exactly what the rest of the website was about. So I would urge taking things in that spirit, including feeling free to call out that the assertions in the article are wrong in fact or interpretation.

I do think it raises some fair questions about the drive to certain forms of digital commerce and identification. Perhaps, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.... at least sometimes...

For the record, I've seen no convincing evidence for the existence of a divine presence of any sort and don't support most of the site's messaging. Sure, we could be on the edge of real apocalypse, but am very doubtful that, should that day come, it will be the Christian Apocalypse or the same prophesied from any other faith for that matter.

zigzagger11 9 hours ago

For one, the WEF is not actually aiming for people to "own nothing and be happy," as the author states.

  • Lammy 9 hours ago
    • zigzagger11 8 hours ago

      Those are predictions...not policies. You'll note that the WEF is far from the only group saying that meat consumption will go down because of climate change.

      • DANmode 7 hours ago

        > Those are predictions...not policies.

        Bill Gates makes some interesting predictions that happen to tightly align with how he advises leaders, and invests.

        Kind of the same thing, here.

        Split the hairs.

  • narrator 9 hours ago

    The WEF did publish an article that said that. They may have deleted it by now because of all the bad press it generated.

    • zigzagger11 8 hours ago

      It said that, as in it literally said that that was a prediction the member had for the future. It is no way an economic policy of the WEF. And its not deleted.

  • shwaj 9 hours ago

    Maybe Klaus shouldn’t have said it then.

  • DANmode 8 hours ago

    This is a disingenuous-at-best interpretation of that story.

    • zigzagger11 8 hours ago

      Not really. Show me where the WEF is publicly planning to get rid of private ownership.

      • DANmode 8 hours ago

        Sibling comments are more than sufficient.

        You will engage in some form of hair-splitting about what he was saying, or whether or not he actually speaks for the organization.

        More than enough here if someone wanted to look.