The
World Economic Forum (WEF) was founded fifty years ago. It has gained
more and more prominence over the decades and has become one of the
leading platforms of futuristic thinking and planning. As a meeting
place of the global elite, the WEF brings together the leaders in
business and politics along with a few selected intellectuals. The main
thrust of the forum is global control. Free markets and individual
choice do not stand as the top values, but state interventionism and
collectivism. Individual liberty and private property are to disappear
from this planet by 2030 according to the projections and scenarios
coming from the World Economic Forum.
Eight Predictions
Individual liberty is at risk again. What may lie ahead was projected in November 2016 when the WEF published “8 Predictions for the World in 2030.” According
to the WEF’s scenario, the world will become quite a different place
from now because how people work and live will undergo a profound
change. The scenario for the world in 2030 is more than just a forecast.
It is a plan whose implementation has accelerated drastically since
with the announcement of a pandemic and the consequent lockdowns.
According to the projections
of the WEF’s “Global Future Councils,” private property and privacy
will be abolished during the next decade. The coming expropriation would
go further than even the communist demand to abolish the property of
production goods but leave space for private possessions. The WEF
projection says that consumer goods, too, would be no longer private
property.
If the WEF projection should come true, people would have to rent and
borrow their necessities from the state, which would be the sole
proprietor of all goods. The supply of goods would be rationed in line
with a social credit points system. Shopping in the traditional sense
would disappear along with the private purchases of goods. Every
personal move would be tracked electronically, and all production would
be subject to the requirements of clean energy and a sustainable
environment.
In order to attain “sustainable agriculture,” the food supply will be
mainly vegetarian. In the new totalitarian service economy, the
government will provide basic accommodation, food, and transport, while
the rest must be lent from the state. The use of natural resources will
be brought down to its minimum. In cooperation with the few key
countries, a global agency would set the price of CO2 emissions at an extremely high level to disincentivize its use.
In a promotional video, the World Economic Forum summarizes the eight predictions in the following statements:
People will own nothing. Goods are either free of charge or must be lent from the state.
The United States will no longer be the leading superpower, but a handful of countries will dominate.
Organs will not be transplanted but printed.
Meat consumption will be minimized.
Massive displacement of people will take place with billions of refugees.
To limit the emission of carbon dioxide, a global price will be set at an exorbitant level.
People can prepare to go to Mars and start a journey to find alien life.
Western values will be tested to the breaking point..
Beyond Privacy and Property
In a publication for the World Economic Forum, the Danish ecoactivist Ida Auken,
who had served as her country’s minister of the environment from 2011
to 2014 and still is a member of the Danish Parliament (the Folketing),
has elaborated a scenario of a world without privacy or property. In “Welcome to 2030,”
she envisions a world where “I own nothing, have no privacy, and life
has never been better.” By 2030, so says her scenario, shopping and
owning have become obsolete, because everything that once was a product
is now a service.
In this idyllic new world of hers, people have free access to
transportation, accommodation, food, “and all the things we need in our
daily lives.” As these things will become free of charge, “it ended up
not making sense for us to own much.” There would be no private
ownership in houses nor would anyone pay rent, “because someone else is
using our free space whenever we do not need it.” A person’s living
room, for example, will be used for business meetings when one is
absent. Concerns like “lifestyle diseases, climate change, the refugee
crisis, environmental degradation, completely congested cities, water
pollution, air pollution, social unrest and unemployment” are things of
the past. The author predicts that people will be happy to enjoy such a
good life that is so much better “than the path we were on, where it
became so clear that we could not continue with the same model of
growth.”
Ecological Paradise
In her 2019 contribution to the Annual Meeting of the Global Future Councils of the World Economic Forum, Ida Auken foretells how the world may look in the future “if we win the war on climate change.” By 2030, when CO2
emissions will be greatly reduced, people will live in a world where
meat on the dinner plate “will be a rare sight” while water and the air
will be much cleaner than today. Because of the shift from buying goods
to using services, the need to have money will vanish, because people
will spend less and less on goods. Work time will shrink and leisure
time will grow.
For the future, Auken envisions a city where electric cars have
substituted conventional combustion vehicles. Most of the roads and
parking spaces will have become green parks and walking zones for
pedestrians. By 2030, agriculture will offer mainly plant-based
alternatives to the food supply instead of meat and dairy products. The
use of land to produce animal feed will greatly diminish and nature will
be spreading across the globe again.
Fabricating Social Consent
How can people be brought to accept such a system? The bait to entice
the masses is the assurances of comprehensive healthcare and a
guaranteed basic income. The promoters of the Great Reset promise a
world without diseases. Due to biotechnologically produced organs and
individualized genetics-based medical treatments, a drastically
increased life expectancy and even immortality are said to be possible. Artificial intelligence will eradicate death and eliminate disease and mortality. The race is on among biotechnological companies to find the key to eternal life.
Along with the promise of turning any ordinary person into a godlike superman, the promise of a “universal basic income”
is highly attractive, particularly to those who will no longer find a
job in the new digital economy. Obtaining a basic income without having
to go through the treadmill and disgrace of applying for social
assistance is used as a bait to get the support of the poor.
To make it economically viable, the guarantee of a basic income would require the leveling
of wage differences. The technical procedures of the money transfer
from the state will be used to promote the cashless society. With the
digitization of all monetary transactions, each individual purchase will
be registered. As a consequence, the governmental authorities would
have unrestricted access to supervise in detail how individual persons
spend their money. A universal basic income in a cashless society would
provide the conditions to impose a social credit system and deliver the
mechanism to sanction undesirable behavior and identify the superfluous and unwanted.
Who Will Be the Rulers?
The World Economic Forum is silent about the question of who will rule in this new world.
There is no reason to expect that the new power holders would be
benevolent. Yet even if the top decision-makers of the new world
government were not mean but just technocrats, what reason would an
administrative technocracy have to go on with the undesirables?
What sense does it make for a technocratic elite to turn the common man
into a superman? Why share the benefits of artificial intelligence with
the masses and not keep the wealth for the chosen few?
Not being swayed away by the utopian promises, a sober assessment of
the plans must come to the conclusion that in this new world, there
would be no place for the average person and that they would be put away
along with the “unemployable,” “feeble minded,” and “ill bred.” Behind
the preaching of the progressive gospel of social justice by the
promoters of the Great Reset and the establishment of a new world order lurks the sinister project of eugenics, which as a technique is now called “genetic engineering” and as a movement is named “transhumanism,” a term coined by Julian Huxley, the first director of the UNESCO.
The promoters of the project keep silent about who will be the rulers
in this new world. The dystopian and collectivist nature of these
projections and plans is the result of the rejection of free capitalism.
Establishing a better world through a dictatorship is a contradiction
in terms. Not less but more economic prosperity is the answer to the
current problems. Therefore, we need more free markets and less state
planning. The world is getting greener and a fall in the growth rate of the world population is already underway. These trends are the natural consequence of wealth creation through free markets.
Conclusion
The World Economic Forum and its related institutions in combination
with a handful of governments and a few high-tech companies want to lead
the world into a new era without property or privacy. Values like
individualism, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are at stake, to be
repudiated in favor of collectivism and the imposition of a “common
good” that is defined by the self-proclaimed elite of technocrats. What
is sold to the public as the promise of equality and ecological
sustainability is in fact a brutal assault on human dignity and liberty.
Instead of using the new technologies as an instrument of betterment,
the Great Reset seeks to use the technological possibilities as a tool
of enslavement. In this new world order, the state is the single owner
of everything. It is left to our imagination to figure out who will
program the algorithms that manage the distribution of the goods and
services.
