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The World Economic Forum is just a company with a specific tax efficient corporate structure that has built a great deal of wealth for the bloke who owns it.

Pretending it's something amazingly different to Cannes Film Festival or the Golden Globes would be a mistake. It's just networks + publicity rolled up as a VIP access event.

(N.B. Didn't check if Cannes, GG, etc are privately held. Doesn't change my point)

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That's not really where i see the problem, the problem for the WEF is optics, a bunch of world leaders talking about radical changes in our society is going to look bad, regardless of whether they are serious or not and regardless of what the actual details of the conversation are.

The prime example of this is when the WEF published the infamous "you will own nothing and you will be happy line". Now if you actually read the article its a little pie in the sky but not overly dystopian. But the thing that gets me every time is how in the hell did they publish that and not think there was going to be some backlash, a bunch of elites and world leaders telling you that you will "own nothing and be happy", that's a bad look.

They probably didn't expect backlash because whenever a giant megacorp ceo says "We are going to change the world (and make you pay for it)" people freaking cheer and their stock goes to the moon.

I honestly think they are just out of touch. It's easy to convince yourself that something is a good idea when all your colleagues are agreeing with you. I think often times they might not fully realize they are on this global stage and their words will be torn apart.

Is it just a company? Or is it also a club similar to Bilderberg Group, Bohemian Club, Le Cercle and others that drawn in powerful elites that collude as a group to coordinate changes to corporate structures and policy that ultimately shape bits and pieces of society and laws of all the first world nations? Companies ultimately fund lobbyists and if most companies are on the same page then these groups of companies can coordinate to manipulate and fully control lawmakers. If I am just one company, maybe I can afford $20 million in lobbying. If I am in a similar 40% to 60% tank of similar thinking people from the fortune 500's that number potentially goes up quite a bit. I believe that is called plutocracy but there is probably a better word.

Am I giving them too much credit?

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Points taken! Well, they can not take away points I do not have.

The sets intersect, partially at least.

Would make for an interesting Venn diagram.

Edit: https://wikispooks.com/wiki/WEF

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