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Some people have read this blog as my utopia or dream of the future. It is not. It is a scenario showing where we could be heading - for better and for worse. I wrote this piece to start a discussion about some of the pros and cons of the current technological development. When we are dealing with the future, it is not enough to work with reports. We should start discussions in many new ways. This is the intention with this piece.
originally posted by: litterbaux
a reply to: rickymouse
That would mean only women usually hold onto the memories. I'm not saying it doesn't happen but men don't usually wear gold with diamond rings.
It is interesting that gold and diamonds have some sort of stronghold on our culteral evolution. I think its just trinkets but who really knows!
originally posted by: daskakik
a reply to: myselfaswell
Yeah and the tweet, also said read more at wef.ch/2gmBN7M, which was a link to that article where the author wrote:
Some people have read this blog as my utopia or dream of the future. It is not. It is a scenario showing where we could be heading - for better and for worse. I wrote this piece to start a discussion about some of the pros and cons of the current technological development. When we are dealing with the future, it is not enough to work with reports. We should start discussions in many new ways. This is the intention with this piece.
So, it was really never a stated goal by the WEF to have people owning nothing and being happy by 2030.
originally posted by: litterbaux
Is the video of them saying this scrubbed from the internet already?
They literally said this, how can you fact check your way out of it?
It IS a goal stated by the WEF , it's in the book! That's my point
originally posted by: daskakik
a reply to: ancientlight
You could sigh as hard as you like but Shwab's book and that article are not the same thing.
The fact being checked was if "you'll own nothing and you'll be happy" was a goal stated by the WEF. It wasn't.
originally posted by: daskakik
a reply to: myselfaswell
Yeah and the tweet also said: read more at wef.ch/2gmBN7M, which was a link to that article where the author wrote:
Some people have read this blog as my utopia or dream of the future. It is not. It is a scenario showing where we could be heading - for better and for worse. I wrote this piece to start a discussion about some of the pros and cons of the current technological development. When we are dealing with the future, it is not enough to work with reports. We should start discussions in many new ways. This is the intention with this piece.
So, it was really never a stated goal by the WEF to have people owning nothing and being happy by 2030.
1. All products will have become services. “I don't own anything. I don't own a car. I don't own a house. I don't own any appliances or any clothes,” writes Danish MP Ida Auken. Shopping is a distant memory in the city of 2030, whose inhabitants have cracked clean energy and borrow what they need on demand. It sounds utopian, until she mentions that her every move is tracked and outside the city live swathes of discontents, the ultimate depiction of a society split in two.
The triggering event for this mass freak-out about BlackRock appears to be a Wall Street Journal article from April about a new spurt of home purchases to convert into rentals. The name “BlackRock” appears in it once, as an aside, among “more than 200 companies and investment firms in the house hunt.” BlackRock, which mostly manages index funds and sells trading technology, owns about $60 billion in total real estate assets. It didn’t start financing other rental home purchases until 2015, five years after the market began in earnest. And according to its year-end financial statement, over 2020 it increased its real estate portfolio (which includes commercial real estate) by a whopping … $20 million. BlackRock’s asset funds that invest in other companies’ real estate or infrastructure (an unknown portion of this goes to residential housing) had a fair market value of $75 million in 2020, with $94 million unspent.
For context, the total value of U.S. rental housing was $4.5 trillion last year. Even the most expansive reading of these numbers, where literally every one of their real estate and infrastructure assets, direct or indirect, are residential homes, would give BlackRock no more than a one-ten-thousandth share of the market. In reality, it’s much less.
So using BlackRock as a metonym for institutional investing in housing betrays near-total ignorance about the situation. Boise, Idaho’s premier home builder Blackrock Homes probably has more of a toehold in the housing market than BlackRock does. It’s clear that their name was singled out because a lot of Biden administration officials migrated from BlackRock and it fits a conservative populist narrative about captured Democratic governance. Source
originally posted by: mcsnacks77
a reply to: rickymouse
Technically no one owns anything. You leave this world the same way you entered it~with nothing.
originally posted by: daskakik
a reply to: SleeperHasAwakened
I can't help it if you didn't get the gist of the article.
At the end of the day the WEF never actually stated that this was a goal for them by 2030.