Klaus Schwab is the head of the World Economic Forum; he founded the organization in 1971. Each year, the WEF hosts a massive conference in Davos, Switzerland, with thousands of world leaders, diplomats and experts on various topics gathering to trade ideas about how best to cooperatively run the world. Lest this characterization be seen as overstating the case, Schwab himself said as much this year in opening the conference: "The future is not just happening. The future is built by us, by a powerful community as you here in this room. We have the means to improve the state of the world. But two conditions are necessary. The first one is that we act all as stakeholders of larger communities, that we serve not only self-interest but we serve the community. That's what we call stakeholder responsibility. And second, that we collaborate."
All of this extraordinary arrogance is predicated on a perverse view of how successful change works within decentralized systems. As Schwab himself acknowledges, free markets have generated more prosperity than any system in human history. But that's because free markets are not a top-down imposition, a system created by conspiratorial muckety-mucks in a back room somewhere. Free markets were the outgrowth of centuries of evolutionary societal progress: gradual recognition that private ownership was the greatest incentive toward work and innovation; incremental understanding that individual rights are the only alternative to endless conflict; step-by-step acceptance that decentralized sources of knowledge are both broader and deeper than centralized ones. The most powerful and durable institutions we have are traditional because, as F.A. Hayek wrote, they are "a product of cumulative growth without ever having been designed by any one mind."
For Schwab and his ilk, however, it's precisely such an evolutionary approach that must be ended. Instead, he and his rationalist buddies -- brilliant businessmen and ambitious politicians, striving bureaucrats and myopic experts -- will cure the world of its ills, so long as we grant them power. Or, more likely, so long as they seize power in the name of "stakeholders" to whom they are never answerable.
One of the great ironies of the past several years is the gap between the elitists' perception of themselves. To the elitists, their solutions failed because citizens of the world lacked the will to listen to them; to the citizens, the elitists failed because their prescriptions were ill-founded. Yet so long as the elitists retain their power, they will continue to push forward their utopian dreams at the expense of those they purport to serve.
Ben Shapiro, 38, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of "The Ben Shapiro Show," and Editor-in-Chief of DailyWire.com. He is a three-time New York Times bestselling author; his latest book is "The Authoritarian Moment: How The Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent." To find out more about Ben Shapiro and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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12 comments:
Mississippi was represented by Roger Wicker
It’s as if he read my comments (the few KF had the courage to approve) but he still won’t name them all!
We already know Klaus Schwab’s name. Tell us the rest of them, Ben!
Where is your ignorant ass snark, KF?
Just read a T shirt caption: "I need new conspiracy theories. All my old ones turned out true." Sorta starting to be the truth.
Those in attendance is pretty easy to find. Everyone should be following what these elitists “think what’s best” for the world. Kerry I’m sure flew in to Devos on his personal G5. Hypocrite!
Hahaha!
Ben IS an elitist!
Someone with read comprehension can also see Mr. Schwab's words as telling his audience to take responsibility to make things better for the world rather than raid it.
Ben just wants to "bitch" rather than to "do".
2:15 - Amen, brother. Preach
"Mr. Schwab's words as telling his audience to take responsibility to make things better for the world rather than raid it."
Apparently, someone is not familiar with the Great Reset. Some of Klaus' more famous words: "You will own nothing and you will like it".
The world economic forum is a joke. Rich people high off the idea that they can make a difference & schwaab collects the membership fees for profit. That’s the conspiracy. The WEF is a business that strokes the egos of the powerful & super rich. Nothing more.
"The Great Reset"
I approve this terminology. (Karl Marx)
@7:18 AM Kerry likely flew there in a USAF plane, either a 737 or a GV. He owns a GIV. Presumably all of them have been converted to electric aircraft, right?
4:26 Do you not know the context of any quotes at all?
Hint: first you have to know something about who said them and when they were said about what.
You are just parroting some idiot website to help the right wingers who can't come up with a cohesive sentence on their own.
Oh geez, can y'all not get that Marxism resulted on oligarchy just as Trumpism hurried along?
It doesn't matter if you call the one party leader, King , or Chairman or President if he and his political cronies control the wealth and reward themselves by turning you into peons.
I just love it when you support elitist who laugh by conning you as they line their pockets. And, you like to listen to the Goebels and Stalins too as they reward themselves after achieving power you would hand them on a silver platter with you worship and deliberate ignorance.
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