The World Economic Forum: Fact, Fiction, and Fallacies

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Who's gonna tell Simon that in America billionaires already get together and influence politicians on government policy?

Keep making 85% of all YouTube content, Simon, you'll be invited to Davos soon... Maybe even Bilderburg

Every now and then Simon reminds me how naive he is by saying "doesn't everyone want equality?"

Me keeping my job is a financial interest yet I am seen as replaceable. I have a greater interest in the company than the company has of me

Any one person or company accumulating that amount of farmland is concerning. Also, foreign ownership of domestic farmland is problematic as well.

The complaints of "economic planning" meetings like this are not that a bunch of rich people are planning on how they want to use their money to help humanity... It's that they are more likely to plan how to use everyone else's money to help humanity. The issue is that their definition of "help humanity" is likely to differ from mine, and it's my money in the form of tax dollars that end up going to initiatives that I have no say in. That's a technocratic dystopian scenario. That, of course, assumes that such complaints are remotely accurate.

I live in South Africa and even I was taken aback by the almost 1/2 the world not having proper toilets. WE as humanity are failing...

I'm always so thrown off by how naive Simon's idea of Elon Musk is. Definite blindspot. He should do an Infographics on him, if he still does them.

The problem with Bill Gates isn't that he does philanthropy - it's that he does it his own way, and sometimes his solutions have worse outcomes than there would have been if he'd partnered with experts and not benefitted his own companies and business partners in the process. It's similar in some ways to IOF loans - sure, you are helping another country, but the long term repercussions show pretty clearly you aren't doing it entirely unselfishly. Billionaire philanthropy always has this issue and always will. No one should have the power or money to decide unilaterally, for millions (if not billions) of people, how their problems are going to be solved. No one has that level of expertise, it gives people a God-complex like no other, and it ends up having massive repercussions in almost every single instance.

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." - Adam Smith

While helping the world these billionaires seem always to help themselves

I think people (not me personally) would be more okay with owning nothing and having no privacy if we knew the folks making the rules would abide by them as well, but we all know they wouldn’t…

The annoying thing about the WEF is that you don’t need to believe the stupid conspiracies to recognise how evil it is. It’s clear as day and yet the thing they take issue with is the ‘marketing’

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” C.S. Lewis.

2:05 - Mid roll ads 3:30 - Back to the video 4:50 - Chapter 1 - What is even the WEF ? 37:05 - Chapter 2 - The great reset 1:17:05 - Chapter 3 - The DAVOS Pact

Just remember that the people telling you to give up everything won't be giving up anything...

Americans over a certain age know who Tony Blair is.

Most of them could not change a lightbulb, you ever met these kinds of people? Most of them have never worked a real job that we would all know, they inherited the wealth. So yeah they potter about thinking they run stuff saying "look what i did"... But the reality is they did nothing just thinking aligned with what was going to happen anyway.

Slight correction, Bush Sr. was between Reagan and Clinton