See, this reads like an absolute dystopia to me, like a late-stage capitalist endgame. With the WEF being a bunch of hypercapitalists, it ain't too surprising that they'd pitch it as utopia instead.
I'm not convinced that WEF is a bunch of capitalists of any kind, but they definitely are working hard to both create and sell a world where nobody other than their membership has any capital.
That would be the capitalist endgame, yep. Or feudalist, if you prefer, but at the end of the day it's pigmeat v. pork; either way, you've got a tiny elite who owns (as close as possible to) everything and rents it back out to everyone else (who pays with their labor, be it directly as serfs or indirectly via their wages).
Just like communism in practice. We can look at Venezuela, North Korea, Cuba, USSR, etc, where the top elite certainly own things, just not the general public.
It's almost as if using a term meaning "a classless, stateless, and moneyless society" to describe societies which are precisely none of those things (in theory, let alone in practice) ain't a sign of intelligence or rationality - be it among those calling themselves "communist" or the ones taking their claim at face value.
A society wherein "the top elite certainly own things, just not the general public" is the capitalist endgame; the goal is to maximize profit/wealth, and being one of the lucky few who owns everything and rents it all back out to the masses is a damn good way of going about that.
They smoked a fat joint when writing this, didn't they?
> First communication became digitized and free to everyone.
Arguably nothing is free, and nothing will ever be free, as long as private organizations want to make a profit. This article is hiding the downsides between the lines. Yes, social media is "free" but you pay in data, attention and effort of creating content. I wonder what the parallels to "free" energy and "free" transportation would be. In this future dystopia, you probably don't even own yourself, or your time.
I know this is a few years old, but the current WEF isn't backing away from their dystopian nightmare recommendations. They're already promoting the metaverse for ALL education, effectively creating the typical sci-fi dystopia. The lack of self-awareness is astounding (unless I'm cynical and then conspiracy theories look plausible, how can they not with these ideas).
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 64.8 ms ] threadA society wherein "the top elite certainly own things, just not the general public" is the capitalist endgame; the goal is to maximize profit/wealth, and being one of the lucky few who owns everything and rents it all back out to the masses is a damn good way of going about that.
Cool, enjoy the toddler toys covered in chocolate milk puke and pink eye. This is fundamentally moronic.
> First communication became digitized and free to everyone.
Arguably nothing is free, and nothing will ever be free, as long as private organizations want to make a profit. This article is hiding the downsides between the lines. Yes, social media is "free" but you pay in data, attention and effort of creating content. I wonder what the parallels to "free" energy and "free" transportation would be. In this future dystopia, you probably don't even own yourself, or your time.
I know this is a few years old, but the current WEF isn't backing away from their dystopian nightmare recommendations. They're already promoting the metaverse for ALL education, effectively creating the typical sci-fi dystopia. The lack of self-awareness is astounding (unless I'm cynical and then conspiracy theories look plausible, how can they not with these ideas).
For things to be free, I think a slave workforce will be necessary. But even then there is a cost to feeding and housing the slaves.
I think this is more indicative of a lifetime of total, stone-cold sobriety and bean counting.
> They live different kind of lives outside of the city. Some have formed little self-supplying communities.
The silver lining of this otherwise tone deaf dystopian nonsense.