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Welcome to 2030
This article was penned by a member of the Danish Parliament to promote discussion about just where we are headed.
To some, it’s a utopian goal … the desired endpoint of our current big tech, big government, Marxist cooperative. To others, it’s a totalitarian hell to be avoided at all costs. But it was published by the World Economic Forum, proponents of the “Great Reset.”
Is this where they really think we could end up? It seems amazingly economically naive for something put out by an economics organization. Free clean energy? Free telecommunications? Free … everything? Without some analog to the Philosopher’s Stone, scarcity will be with us always. And with it, nothing is free. Some method must exist to ration scarce goods. Prices, determined by the free choices of free people, seem to be the best way we know to do this. But it’s not the only way. All the others depend on varying degrees of authoritarian fiat. Surely the WEF knows this. So why pretend that there is a “free stuff” possible future? They certainly seem to know there is a downside to the “free stuff” future…
Once in a while, I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. Nowhere I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use it against me.
The downside is very real. But the “free stuff” future is a physical impossibility. Yet they dangle it out there as if it were a real choice. It would seem to be an attempt to get the gullible to trade their liberty for a chimera that can’t be delivered. Fortunately for them, the ranks of the gullible are large and growing. Unfortunate for us.
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On the other hand, 200,000 doesn’t set them back much. With India’s birth rate, it takes them between 3 and 4 days to replace 200,000 people.
Waiting for those new 200,000 to become farmers, though, takes a while.
I’ll stand by my initial analysis.
First of all there are at least two different components of Marx’s ideas. One component is his analysis of capitalism. It is an outstandingly comprehensive view of capitalism.
According to wikipedia: “Employing a critical approach known as historical materialism, Marx predicted that capitalism produced internal tensions like previous socio-economic systems and that those would lead to its self-destruction and replacement by a new system known as the socialist mode of production. For Marx, class antagonisms under capitalism, owing in part to its instability and crisis-prone nature, would eventuate the working class’ development of class consciousness, leading to their conquest of political power and eventually the establishment of a classless, communist society constituted by a free association of producers.[15]“
He made the assertion that communism was most likely to come about inside complex industrialized societies.
Until recently, it has come about entirely in agrarian societies, not industrialized ones. Although apparently our society will soon be the first largely industrialized society to fall under its boot.
Although communism is odious, he was speaking as a theorist, not as someone out in the field, causing this form of societal organization. I have no problem at all with anyone (or everyone) blaming him for his idea of “actively pressing for its implementation, arguing that the working class should carry out organised proletarian revolutionary action to topple capitalism and bring about socio-economic emancipation.[16]” (This passage is also from wikipedia.)
But his analysis itself was quite brilliant. It offered insights that were original and that were needed in terms of thinking about economics, capitalism, societal reactions and more.
Of course every single thing promised in this prediction will come about. How can anyone doubt it?
In 2030, if not earlier, every earth inhabitant, including the Lizard People, will sign on to this futuristic Greta-endorsed plan for sustainability as being beyond a total success, as otherwise they will become Soylent Green-ed.
Then the COVID 19 crisis wa smanufactured, and overnight the economy was grinding to a standstill.
Mom and businesses that have been shuttered might never return.
Already between half a million and a full million people have died of malnutrition due to being at the lowest level of the global poor. When the top industrial economic engines are not working, the most severe of economic fallout hits those people first.
Economists are now predicting a good 100 million to 500 million people might join them. Ironically, these poor people are often in nations where the use of HCQ is prevalent, even allowed over the counter, and so the specter of COVID afflicting their populations has not occurred. That fact will probably be reversed, as once a populace is starving, infections can ramp up – especially if individuals are no longer able to purchase the remedy, however cheap it may be.