Comment by motbus3

Comment by motbus3 2 days ago

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You'll own nothing. And you will be happy (using pills and medicines)

They were quite serious about destroying society as-is. Nobody took them serious

klipklop 2 days ago

You are getting down voted, but it's true. They (WEF-types during their meetings you can watch on youtube) telegraphed it during/soon after the entire Covid lock downs that they intended to make large structural changes to society and the concept of ownership. They didn't make this secret or anything. Heck some sold books on the subject.

Most of what the WEF discusses is how to gain more technocratic control over democracy. You know, for the benefit of everyone...

Etheryte 2 days ago

Who is "they" in this context?

  • matthewrobertso 2 days ago

    The World Economic Forum is famous for saying people will own nothing by 2030 and be happy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ll_own_nothing_and_be_ha...

    • ryandrake a day ago

      Then it's a good thing that the World Economic Forum are not government and do not have lawmaking powers. It's essentially a lobbying firm. I wouldn't worry too much about random slop they publish.

      • sph 18 hours ago

        That phrase was an essay from a Danish Social Democrat, the exact same party that has been pushing very hard for Chat Control in Europe.

        It’s not a lobbying firm, it’s the same people that make our laws and decide our future.

        By the way, the full title of that essay is “Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better”

    • Nursie 2 days ago

      The essay was a thought experiment based around the popularity of the so-called "sharing economy" at the time, not a WEF strategy document and certainly no government's policy.

      Even the author of the piece said it was not a description of her vision of the future, but intended to start a discussion about technology.

      But it's been picked up by wackaloons around the world as part of some overarching conspiracy theory.

      • chii a day ago

        > overarching conspiracy theory.

        it's because it's so easy to simply blame the ills of society on some illusory few pulling the strings behind the scenes. It used to be the migrants, or blacks, or the chinese (still is apparently) or the japanese...and now, it's the rich/shadowy figures etc.

        The actual truth is that the collective actions of everybody leads to certain outcomes - today's outcomes. It can't really have happened any other way.

        • torginus a day ago

          But it's literally true?

          Please don't dilute the argument by comparing racial groups with the ultra-rich.

          The (ultra-)rich form a class in the classical Marxist sense - a group whose interests naturally align, and they work together to further their interests.

          There is deliberate government policy behind what's going on with housing - free money for the rich, which they can in turn invest into speculative assets to make yet even more free money.

          Then they ensure that their money has weight by putting said money into housing, pricing out common folk, and building new units to serve as price control to preserve the value of their assets.

  • epsilonic 2 days ago

    They are the proponents of The Great Reset. Here’s an excerpt from a book I read:

    ‘As Hitler declared in 1934, “The German revolution will be concluded only when the entire German Volk has been totally created anew, reorganized and reconstructed” (cited in Koonz, 2003, p. 87). The “Great Reset,” announced by World Economic Forum (WEF) director Klaus Schwab, son of Nazi industrialist Eugen Schwab, attempts the same thing on a global scale, promising to “revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country [ . . . ] must participate, and every industry [ . . . ] must be transformed” (Schwab, 2020).’

    The book is: Wall Street, the Nazis, and the Crimes of the Deep State

    By David A. Hughes