Did you read my explanation of the phrase? I agreed it’s not some call to dictatorship, but a description of trends like renting products and buying services instead of buying goods themselves. Basically the software as a service model applied to everything.
There are lots of dumb takes on that phrase. Mine isn’t one of them. I know exactly how it is used and meant. It was part of ‘The Great Reset’ set of ideas, which also includied things like a heavy emphasis on ‘stakeholder’ capitalism, ESG investing to push the flow of capital to the ‘right’ things, etc.
Allowing capitalism to operate so long as it does the things the leaders want is not socialism. It’s closer to fascism. Or techno-authoritarianism in the Chinese model, which is also closer to fascism than socialism.
But once again, as I said early in this thread, the WEF is a strange amalgam of planning organization and TED-style idea factory. It’s also a grift. Anyone who can pony up $80,000 can give a talk, and many do.
But the mix of crazy talks and serious panels opens the door to a lot of confusion about what the WEF is really about. For example, a serious panel on Covid vaccines is followed by a talk about how we could embed chips in people with syringes to track their carbon consumption, so naturally the covid vaccine is putting chips in people, right?