I hear from people that the World economic forum is pushing socialist views can some one here elaborate on that, like what views are they pushing.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental organization for public–private sector collaboration[1] based in Cologny, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded on 24 January 1971 by German engineer Klaus Schwab.
The foundation’s stated mission is "improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas
The WEF seems to have supplanted Bill Gates, International Bankers and the Illuminati as the favorite target of conspiracy theory-mongers.
It’s not “socialism” per se that the loons are worried about, but fantasies that the “elites” are plotting (via a widely publicized annual meeting) to control people via “The Great Reset”, by confining them to 15-minute cities, making them eat bugs, adding vaccines to the water supply and a bevy of other sinister activities.*
Just sneak up behind them, whisper “Davos!” and watch them jump.
*the most horrifying of which is a plan to “eliminate” conspiracy theorists. Good luck with that.
Looking at the WEF from a moderate left wing perspective it is a pro-capitalist meeting. Only, it is pro enlightened capitalism - for benefiting the haves, and to ensure the have-nots are incentivised not to rise up against capitalism. The loony Right, on the other hand, sees everything as a zero-sum game and is obsessed with harming the have nots - which not the same thing.
Seen this a lot on twitter. Illuminatibot has all that info, everything you have mentioned.
So…we don’t have to eat bugs? What if. What if they’re right? Curious. Would people rebel?
I think it was Argentinian President Javier Milei that got everyone wiled up over it.
Where Argentinian President Javier Milei saying the west is becoming more socialism than capitalism and the world economic forum is pushing socialism.
But Argentinian President Javier Milei did not say what policies are socialism.
In a fiery and passionate speech, Argentinian President Javier Milei took the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and delivered a powerful message about the virtues of freedom and capitalism.
Milei, a libertarian economist and outspoken critic of government intervention, argued that the West is facing a serious threat from the rise of socialism, which he defined as "the intrusion of the state into the economy and the degradation of society.”
Milei called for a return to the principles of individual liberty and free markets, which he said are the keys to prosperity and progress. “The state is not the solution, the state is the problem itself,” he declared. "You are the true protagonist of this story. And rest assured that as from today, Argentina is your staunch unconditional ally.”
Milei’s speech was met with a mix of applause and boos from the audience, but it is sure to generate a lot of discussion and debate.
This is a real speech conducted by Javier Milei at the World Economic Forum. AI was used to translate Javier Milei post from Spanish to English and read in his voice. You can find the original and AI versions in description and comments below
The conservative position on WEF is that they are “globalists” who’s main aim is to destroy White Christian Culture. Socialism is just one prong in their attack.
We just had someone on my local Nextdoor complain about our power company doing a meter upgrade (to permit remote meter-reading) as a plan to give us all a “WEF-meter” and state that they would never under any circumstances give up their old electric meter no matter how much extra it costs them each month.
For some reason they are not put off by having a meter reader come into their yard every month to get their eletrical usage…
This is probably 99% of it. Anything with “World” as the first word in a title is automatically suspect to these folks, because by their lights, any global solution has to have negative local effects to them because there has to be some sort of loss of sovereignty/agency, and some sort of erosion to their own way of life. And because a global solution pretty much has to be funded by the global “haves”, and will benefit more of the “have-nots”, they view it as automatically “socialist”, because there’s a certain element of the richer paying for the poorer.
I don’t even know if it’s necessarily the philosophical ramifications that they oppose, so much as any and all change that they’re not themselves initiating and guiding. That, and the idea that they might be compelled to pay for something they don’t derive 100% of the utility from, is hugely aggravating to them.
I predict that when we eventually end up doing some sort of huge-scale geoengineering to keep a lid on global warming, these same people are going to decry it as “socialist” because US and European money is largely going to fund it, not money from Mexico, Burundi, Indonesia, etc…
Wow… that’s just moronic. The WEF does push smart meters, but more as an efficiency improvement sort of infrastructure improvement. They allow for a lot more analysis- time of day, peaks, anomalous usage, etc… that merely reading the difference between last month and this month can’t do.
I mean, who wouldn’t like the City to call them when they notice that your water usage indicates a slow leak? Or a larger one? Or that someone might be stealing your electricity? Those are all things AMI meters can identify because of the way they work.
Before the WEF was plotting world domination, there were similar bogeymen - the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderbergs and the Trilateral Commission. Or generic Juwes, sorry, meant to say International Bankers.
All feature Elites who wear designer clothes, feast at banquets and are Up To No Good.
A brave legal maverick in Toronto has had a bit of a setback as he battles the WEF.
A judge ordered Rocco Galati to pay $132,000 in legal expenses of a rival crank group he sued for libel.
The judge evidently isn’t impressed with another lawsuit Galati is pursuing, which alleges a huge pandemic-related conspiracy involving the WEF, WHO and prime minister Justin Trudeau…
"The Ontario class action Galati is leading “is prolix (tediously lengthy) and argumentative. The claim advances pseudo-legal concepts and conspiracy theories that the pandemic was pre-planned and executed by the WHO, Bill Gates, the World Economic Forum and unnamed billionaires and oligarchs.”
The WEF is not socialist. I’d say closer to Black-Mirror techno-fascist, maybe. Or Chinese-style central authoritarianism. But mostly it’s just a place where surplus elites go to listen to some of the world’s worst ideas to justify flying around the world in their Gulfstreams and pounding out more CO2 per hour than most people manage in a year.
It’s also a full employment program for the region’s prostitutes and escorts.
The WEF thinks we need global solutions to our problems, issued by global authorities. I can’t think of many things more dangerous or more likely to create widespread misery.
And it’s not just all talk, and it’s not harmless. The farmer’s riots in Europe are all about rejecting WEF-style plans for centralizing agriculture and forcing reductions in food supply for the planet.
WEF styled policies in Sri Lanka caused food riots. The WEF-aligned governmentts in New Zealand and the Netherlands both fell due to widespread opposition.
In Canada, our finance minister is on the board of the WEF, and Klaus Schwab brags that over half of Canada’s cabinet is composed of WEF leaders. And we’ve been piloting every crackpot WEF proposal. The latest was ARRIVE-Can, a pilot project for the WEF’s global digital ID program. It was a corrupt failure.
As you can see, I’m not a fan. But it’s not a bunch of socialists. For which the socialists are probably very happy.
I would point out that the loony right is against almost all the examples that you pointed out. I do agree with a lot with what @Mops says, but I don’t agree with some from the left that see the Forum as bad, considering that the loony right even sees the examples you give as bad for their business. The WEF could be better for the needy, but it is not on the whole a bad thing.
Cite for that? That is not what becoming sustainable should lead to.
With fertilizers, we face a kind of Goldilocks problem. Some places have too few nutrients and therefore poor crop production, whereas others have too much, leading to pollution. Almost no one uses fertilizers “just right.” Our analysis shows hotspots on the planet—particularly in China, northern India, the central U.S. and western Europe—where farmers could substantially reduce fertilizer use with little or no impact on food production. Amazingly, only 10 percent of the world’s cropland generates 30 to 40 percent of agriculture’s fertilizer pollution.
Among the actions that can fix this excess are policy and economic incentives, such as payments to farmers for watershed stewardship and protection, for reducing excessive fertilizer use, for improving manure management (especially manure storage, so that less runs off into the watershed during a storm), for capturing excess nutrients through recycling, and for instituting other conservation practices.
I do remember that in a previous discussion it was found that the former leaders of Sri Lanka did it cold turkey, something that many reported was not a good idea and then there were other issues with the corrupt government.
Not sure I understand are you saying the world economic forum is going after small and medium farmers in the Europe and only want big farms or some kind of centralized farm.
