You're spot on that the elites are trying to convert everyone into pay-as-you-go peasants. However, I agree with someone who posted here a week or two ago these people are wicked and Machiavellian while simultaneously being naive and profoundly stupid.
The major reason that the West never had a communist revolution is that people with something to lose aren't inclined to revolt. No matter how bad it gets, almost everyone has a roof over their head and a full belly, plus lots of cheap entertainment as well. You really have to have nothing to lose in order to be willing to risk everything in a revolt.
If they get their way, it won't be "you will own nothing and be happy", it will be "you will own nothing and be miserable". A bunch of poor miserable people is the recipe for a revolution. Perhaps they think their wealth will protect them, but that wasn't the case in 1700's France, tsarist Russia, or any of the other bum fuck places that have had revolutions in the last 200 years.
Yup. All it would take is a few soldiers/mercenaries/private security, whatever the choice of the corporate elites is, to see their families starving, and you've got a long night of assassinations when sympathizers let you into the bunker.
I honestly wonder if the Davos crowd has bought their own Modern Monetary Theory bullshit, they're certainly running the global economy like they believe in it. Wouldn't be the first time oligarchs fell for a crackpot too-good-to-be-true economic theory, with disastrous consequences for everyone else.
You're spot on that the elites are trying to convert everyone into pay-as-you-go peasants. However, I agree with someone who posted here a week or two ago these people are wicked and Machiavellian while simultaneously being naive and profoundly stupid.
The major reason that the West never had a communist revolution is that people with something to lose aren't inclined to revolt. No matter how bad it gets, almost everyone has a roof over their head and a full belly, plus lots of cheap entertainment as well. You really have to have nothing to lose in order to be willing to risk everything in a revolt.
If they get their way, it won't be "you will own nothing and be happy", it will be "you will own nothing and be miserable". A bunch of poor miserable people is the recipe for a revolution. Perhaps they think their wealth will protect them, but that wasn't the case in 1700's France, tsarist Russia, or any of the other bum fuck places that have had revolutions in the last 200 years.
Yup. All it would take is a few soldiers/mercenaries/private security, whatever the choice of the corporate elites is, to see their families starving, and you've got a long night of assassinations when sympathizers let you into the bunker.
I honestly wonder if the Davos crowd has bought their own Modern Monetary Theory bullshit, they're certainly running the global economy like they believe in it. Wouldn't be the first time oligarchs fell for a crackpot too-good-to-be-true economic theory, with disastrous consequences for everyone else.