Sri Lanka was something of a poster child for the WEF’s warmed-over green socialism. Naturally, the entire country went tits-up faster even than Venezuela. You might think this would cause the WEF to be somewhat chastened. But that’s to reckon without the single-minded fanaticism of globo-soc.
Instead, the WEF is back on the Sri Lankan case faster than Paul Ehrlich making a doomsday prediction. Nein, nein, nein, insists Der Fuhrer Schwab, the failure of Sri Lanka only proves that it needs more watermelonialism.
Sri Lanka’s situation exposes the true cost of living and the cost of ownership. In a performance economy, which encompasses one of the economic principles of a circular economy, a smaller number of asset owners will take custodianship of assets to keep them in use and provide services to many users based on consumption.
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This is all part of the WEF’s latest drive to sell us all on its Great Reset: the so-called “circular economy”. Some of the “circular economy” stuff is just “recycling” with a fancy new name. But, lurking underneath is plain, old Communism collectivisation — complete with nomenklatura. “A smaller number of asset owners will take custodianship of assets”? Guess who that will be? It certainly won’t be you. You’ll own nothing.
Welcome to the year 2030. Welcome to my city – or should I say, “our city.” 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.
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Instead of owning things, you’ll “share” them with the collective.
Essential items such as tools, equipment, and electronic equipment/office spaces. In addition, wider communal access to small items such as toys, books and tools can be created through libraries for sharing […]
Someone else is using our free space whenever we do not need it. My living room is used for business meetings when I am not there.
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You know, they tried this before, in the Soviet Union and in Mao’s Great Leap Forward. It was a disaster. When no-one owns anything, nothing has any value to them. As historian Frank Dikotter records, in Mao’s Great Famine, tools that would have lasted years when owned by an individual farmer wound up broken and discarded within weeks. Animals, once one of a peasant farmer’s most precious assets, were neglected, overworked and quickly died.
When no-one owns anything, nothing has any value to them.
Collective housing was another grim feature of Communism. It was misery for those forced to endure it, but a huge boon to the regime. Orlando Figes titled his history of life under Stalin The Whisperers in part because people in collective housing were forced to conduct all their conversations in whispers, lest snitches denounce them to the NKVD.
Another grim feature of collectivisation was that it made everyone utterly dependent on the state. The WEF want us to be even more dependent on a roboticised, panopticon collective than Mao could ever have dreamed.
Shopping? I can’t really remember what that is. For most of us, it has been turned into choosing things to use. Sometimes I find this fun, and sometimes I just want the algorithm to do it for me. It knows my taste better than I do by now.
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And if your taste deviates beyond what’s approved by the masters of the collective, who program the AI? Just as those in China who find that their social credit score means that ATMs won’t operate and turnstiles remain stubbornly locked, anyone who doesn’t comform to the WEF’s mandated “healthy and climate-friendly eating choices” will have no choice but to eat ze bugs or go hungry.
As Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor) finds out, in The Island, when your entire diet is controlled by an AI, the “choices are fruit, oatmeal and any type of bran. You got a nutrition flag, means no bacon.”
Lest you be inclined to scoff that, hey, we’re not a bunch of Chinese peasants or Sri Lankan farmers: we care about our collective property, take a quick gander at all the discarded “e-bikes” littering the streets, rivers and canals of Western cities.
More than 1600 bicycles have been left abandoned on the street and in warehouses after bike-sharing company Mobike failed in Australia for the second time […]
Mobike’s failure comes as a new wave of bike-sharing schemes, such as HelloRide and Bird, have set up in Sydney, hoping that their electric bikes, GPS tracking and better relationships with councils will let them prosper.
Sure: like every other socialist brain-fart, it will work next time.
Mobike arrived in Australia in 2017 as a Chinese start-up with more than $1 billion in investor funding and put its orange and silver push-bikes on city streets in Sydney and Queensland’s Gold Coast.
One of the country’s e-commerce giants, Meituan Dianping, bought it a year later for $US2.7 billion ($3.8 billion) at the height of the bike-sharing craze that infuriated residents with dumped bicycles.
By 2019, Meituan was moving to sell off or close its overseas operations as the company bled money […]
Mobike stopped trading in August last year and went into liquidation in October.
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Well, they really do own nothing, now. They must be whistlin’ Zippity-doo-dah out their assholes.
