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.”
This is the call to action for elitists the world over. They appoint themselves the representatives of global interests — without elections, without accountability — and then create mechanisms of national and international order to control citizens over whom they claim to preside. Schwab himself has decoded his favorite term, “stakeholder capitalism.” He wrote in Time magazine in October 2020, “Free markets, trade and competition create so much wealth that in theory they could make everyone better off if there was the will to do so.” To do so, however, would require taking hints from Greta Thunberg, #MeToo and Black Lives Matter; it would require “building … a virtuous economic system” in which companies abandon their core mission of serving customers and shareholders and instead embrace answering questions like “What is the gender pay gap in company X? How many people of diverse backgrounds were hired and promoted? What progress has the company made toward reducing its greenhouse-gas emissions?”
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.
“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.”
At their next meeting—why not just take ’em out?
The elite of The World are only Interested In Serving their Own Interests an d The Middle-Class, Or As Hillary Clinton Called The ” Middle-Class, ” A Basket Full Of Deplorables, ” And Democrat President, Joe Biden, once Called The ” Middle Class, ” The Dregs Of Society. ” The Democrat Elite of this World are only To be Condoned And Used As Far As The Elite Are Concerned. ” You Will Obey, Comrade .
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“The democrat Elite Of The World Believe That ” The Middle Class ” Are only to be Condoned And Used, as Far as The Elite Are Concerned.!
is it just me or does kerry look deceased?
Are these the skillful and dangerous James Bond villains of SPECTER or the comedic villains Dr. Evil, MiniMe and Number One of Austin Powers movies?
More akin to spectre than dr evil..
Lurch needs to go back to playing the piano and Thing Pelosi needs to get a financial haircut and let Gomez run the family fortunes again. To these fools, becoming a stake holder is a prelude to driving those sakes though our hearts.
At least its not uncle fester!!
As Was often said in ” MAD COMICS, ” what, me worry. “
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Poor Nancy Pelosi, Even Her Catholic Religion Apparently Doesn’t Realize How ” SPECIAL, ” She Is. Nancy Pelosi,” Do As I Say, Not As I Do.”
” Pope Francis picks leftist US bishop to be a cardinal: Pope Francis picks leftist US bishop to be a cardinal…” And All Because Democrat Nancy Pelosi Backed Abortion Rights For ” WOMEN.”
Horse face kerry is such a fraud. Anyone who believes a word he says is dead from the neck up.
OH, THE SAME JOHN Kerry who once said, Reporting For Duty ,Only Thing, No body Wanted Him.
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You Commented : “Horse face kerry is such a fraud. Anyone who believes a word he says is dead from the neck up.” HENIZ Ketchup Inheritor , Mrs Kerry, bought John Kerry.!
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May 31, 2022 According to FOX NEWS ON T. V. Today, Democrat President, JOE BIDEN Intents on running again In 2024 For President , WHAT,??
Wonder OF Wonders, ” THE CLINTON LAWYER, Found, ” Not Guilty,” Of Lying,” To F.B.I.” FOX NEWS.
The Elitists Who Want to Rule the World: “May 31, 2022 According to FOX NEWS ON T. V .today, Democrat President, JOE BIDEN Intents on running again In…2024 ”As Groucho Marx was supposed to have said, “Who Are You Going To Believe, ME Or Those Lying EYES Of Your. ” Joe Biden In 2024, (You Got To Be Kidding ! )
Thje Democrat EliteShould ttake the Advice of Voltaire In Regards Tp Democrat President Jpe Biden Running For President Again in 2024, Joe Biden was Quoted as having said , that he Intended to Run For President Again in 2024. Voltaire Said Thos, ” Common Sense Is Both Rarer And More Desirable In LeadersThan Mere Intelligence . “
Imprimis’ April/May issue touched squarely upon this matter saying its not ideologies affecting public policies but an opportunity lies in “top vs. bottom” dynamic (EX: Governor DeSantis’ frontally taking down Disney enterprises). An elite class, representing a small number of people with influence in the knowledge-based institutions,are acting in their own interest and AGAINST THE INTEREST OF THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. Our dynamic is a choice between the American 1776 Revolution or Leftist Revolution of the 1960’s. Just remember, the 1960’s Cultural Revolution takes US where we are today:1) Nihilism and 2) Demoralization. OFFENSE – laying siege to these “wayward” institutions…IS WHAT IS NOW DEMANDED (Gov. DeSantis gave us the blueprint, now lets take action). Amen. God Bless America. Read A Bible.. KJV. Psalm 128. 10 Commandments everywhere. Gob Bless. Newt Gingrich knows how to fix Washington DC. Micro Schools is the unfolding seige on public schools. “Kitchen Militias” are the siege on corrupt district Mayors and School Board Officials. Amen.