What makes you think I'm confused? Have I written something false or something that implies I'm confused? If so, what?"You will own nothing and you will be happy" is a statement made in a WEF social media video in 2016.
Do you have a specific link where we can see that statement in context? The link I clicked was useless.8 predictions for the world in 2030
From the death of shopping to the rise of the nation state, experts reflect on what lies ahead.www.weforum.org
First, @ Metaphor — you seem confused about the distinction between Description and Prescription.
I have no idea what any 'QOPanoners' think or what they even are.My impression is that the makers of that webpage were various prognosticators, not predicting with a single voice. I know QOPAnoners and related Ilks view WEF as part of the Illuminati/Cabal trying to refashion our world. Where do you fall on that spectrum?
I do think WEF is trying to refashion the world, but not as part of a secret cabal, but because they openly advertise it as their mission
Our Mission
The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.
www.weforum.org
The World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.
The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.
Well, no, the text does not, but the video does. Did you watch the video? I can't link directly to it but it is on the bottom of that page. This is a screenshot from the video:Your sentence is the first sentence in an embedded video there, but the text at your link does not contain the word "happy."
That wasn't my one sentence summary of the WEF page. I had never seen that page before I linked to it. I was talking about the video. I relayed a fact about why WEF's video caused controversy. It was because of those words.It has four instances of "own", all in the following paragraph.
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.
Your one-sentence summary of this WEF page, even though it does match the first line of the video, seems rather . . . peculiar.
Why was that worth reproducing?The webpage had a text image that may be worth reproducing: