[somenameforme]

The issue which really started the discussion on this was not the article, which I suspect relatively few read, but the Tweet/Video that the World Economic Forum published. You can find an archive of it here: https://archive.org/details/world-economic-forum-presents-th....

It was universally poorly received, which led to them removing the video/Tweet, and it's now being censored on platforms like YouTube. Their predictions, as stated in the video, to happen by 2030, include:

- You'll own nothing.

- You'll rent everything.

- You'll eat less meat.

- "Western values will have been tested to the breaking point."

The WEF, if you are not aware, is not just some random crazy think-tank. It's a collective that, as a whole, is arguably the single most influential group in existence. Their backing companies [1] include Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Mozilla, WalMart, the banks, and the vast majority of massive companies you can think of. Their individual members/delegates [2] include chief executives, heads of state, and so on. The sort of group that doesn't just make predictions, but makes predictions happen.

That such a group thought society at large would respond positively to that video is simply odd. That they hold the views expressed in that video are something much worse than odd. These people, are at a minimum, unimaginably far out of touch with a society that they overtly aim to puppeteer.

[1] - https://www.weforum.org/partners#A

[2] - https://qz.com/1787762/davos-delegates-are-categorized-from-...

[ZeroGravitas]

Your link seems broken, but by googling I think I found the video on youtube.

Is this the same one that says "1 Billion people will be displaced by climate change"?

Because, that seems like a prediction of what might happen in the future, rather than a wishlist item of Bill Gates and the rest of the Pentaverat.

The video seems to be a very brief summary of this process:

https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GFC_Annual_Report_2019_202...

I've already found their plans for another dystopia linked from there, they are so brazen:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/08/backcasting-from-a-fu...

[somenameforme]

The URL is quite odd in that it ends with a period which it seems that Hacker News is parsing, more normally, as a period instead of a part of the URL. In the following URL, manually add a period at the end:

https://archive.org/details/world-economic-forum-presents-th....

[ZeroGravitas]

So, now that we can all watch the same video.

What's wrong with these predictions?

Is it because they're wrong and we think something else will happen?

Is it because they're right and we think the academics and politicians involved in coming up the predictions are to 'blame' for them?

I really don't get it.

[somenameforme]

It's difficult to estimate the exact wealth of the WEF and their delegates/companies, but it's going to be a very large share, and likely the wide majority, of all wealth on this planet. The group that owns everything, stating you will own nothing and instead just rent [from them] is something few will regard in a positive way.

When the exact people actively working to change the world in pursuit of these predictions make them, they are no longer predictions but goals.