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

@BizSuitStacy @ArishMell (see above) Elon Musk appears to consider the WEF as a potent global actor, not just a group of old bods with outsized unrealisable ambitions... Is he just imagining things?

@WalterF Mr. Musk's' Number One priority is to make Mr. Musk very rich, and he's done that with his Tesla car company and by cluttering near-Space with huge numbers of commercial telephony satellites.

He is not a man to upset as he proven himself very nasty but very childishly so if declined; but I am not surprised he'd want to hang around with anyone he thinks might help Mr. Musk become even richer. Though I'd not have expected him to speak out against the WEF.

I don't think he is right about it, but nations DO need to co-operate and trade in ever more complicated ways in an increasingly difficult ways so bodies like the UN are inevitable and vital. Whether the WEF is vital is another matter but international trade co-operation demands a lot of financial and political co-operation too. It also examines and warns of international problems like climate-change, pandemics and resources shortages.

So why might the WEF worry Elon Musk? I suspect he's afraid it might encourage national governments and bodies like the EU, UN etc., to introduce controls with good aims but side-effects that might curb the activities of men like him, so making it harder to get his own way and make even more money he doesn't need.

A dreamer though? He likes adventures that have no purpose other than adventure, or just publicity, such as his descent to the floor of the Challenger Deep, apparently without studying anything down there. In other ways, I think Elon Musk is a dreamer, such as his waffling about manned visits to Mars, or even colonies there. I don't know how far he thinks about that, including one or two points that might be Rather Important to the astronauts themselves; and nor do I know if his motives include scientific endeavour.

@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!