Think Anal Schwab's "great reset" is just pie in his sky?

@ArishMell I can provide links to other governments' online information about the fourth industrial revolution. It is a thing. It's a synonym for his "great reset". The majority of governments have signed up for it. As usual, no consultation with the people.

As the Schwab clip shows, it's power they want.

@WalterF Oh I am sure your are right about little cabals of politicians, bankers and the like who want power, but I don't fear them as you do. The world is too fractured and fractious, and governments generally too unorganised, for it to work even if they might want it.

One advantage of democracy is that it leads to short-term thinking, usually a disadvantage but here tending to oppose the sort of decades-long planning needed for the dreams of Herr Schwab and his pals. The EU tries it but the more it tries the more restive its citizens become, though it has never asked their opinions anyway. China's strength is her luxury of long-distance planning, as she does not need to think about elections that risk major policy changes.

Besides, at my age I doubt supposed "resets" whatever they are in reality, would have any significant effect on me. I worry more about what is happening now in a practical sense, such as the growing drive by banks etc. to live by "smart"-'phones for no other reason than their own commercial convenience and benefit.

More seriously is what my great-nieces' generation might face, but it will be for their generation to control if there is something definite to control, not merely grandiose discussion-group ideas.

Anyway, their world will probably face much more serious problems; real ones, not money-traders' theories; that may genuinely introduce very tight restrictions and need very tight controls, on society at large.

@ArishMell Setting aside this man's idiosyncracies, is it too far-fetched that he might actually be expressing a real fear for the world? No doubt he welcomes healthy competition in his businesses. But he seems to be implying that the power of the WEF - which he presumably has witnessed, and evaluated with his usual shrewdness - is a THREAT. A threat to the people. (As I and other ordinary people have been harping on about for a long time now.)

@WalterF Well, what IS this threat, exactly? Real danger, not what seems to exist.

I can see intergovernmental agreements - if that's what the WEF ever leads to but are anyway extraordinarily hard to make - being a threat to the likes of Elon Musk, but to you and me? Are we THAT important to these types?

@ArishMell Much to be said on that. (Most of it has already been said on these pages.) I'll sleep on that, and rejoin the fray tomorrow!

@Confined This is not far-fetched. Leaders who slavishly follow the WEF have forgotten the "useful (and disposable) idiot" concept