COVID-19

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1. nbzsoNov 2020
   You are on to something important here:) If you want to know how we are will be "happy by owning nothing" read this "masterpiece" of socialized corporatism https://www.amazon.co.uk/COVID-19-Great-Reset-Klaus-Schwab/d... .
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2. narratorAug 2023
   AI will change society by getting rid of the necessity of vast numbers of people to be involved in production. Factories will become like farms, which need few people to produce goods for billions thanks to combine harvesters and so forth that were 20th century inventions. You'll have auto plants out in the middle of nowhere overseen by a few technicians. Cities will be for the poor. People will be stacked and warehoused on UBI. This is "Ze Sustainable awwnd incluzive fewcha [said in a thick german accent]."

   Here, let me pull up Klaus Schwab's "Covid-19: The Great Reset."

   "As far back as the Black Death that ravaged Europe from 1347 to 1351 (and that suppressed 40% of Europe’s population in just a few years), workers discovered for the first time in their life that the power to change things was in their hands. Barely a year after the epidemic had subsided, textile workers in Saint-Omer (a small city in northern France) demanded and received successive wage rises. Two years later, many workers’ guilds negotiated shorter hours and higher pay, sometimes as much as a third more than their pre-plague level. Similar but less extreme examples of other pandemics point to the same conclusion: labour gains in power to the detriment of capital. Nowadays, this phenomenon may be exacerbated by the ageing of much of the population around the world (Africa and India are notable exceptions), but such a scenario today risks being radically altered by the rise of automation, an issue to which we will return in section 1.6. Unlike previous pandemics, it is far from certain that the COVID-19 crisis will tip the balance in favour of labour and against capital. For political and social reasons, it could, but technology changes the mix."

   Schwab, Klaus; Malleret, Thierry. COVID-19: The Great Reset (p. 39). Forum Publishing. Kindle Edition.

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3. prohoboMar 2023
   Evidence of "foresight and planning":

   - WEF's The Great Reset: https://www.amazon.com/COVID-19-Great-Reset-Klaus-Schwab/dp/...

   - UN's 2030 Agenda: https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda

   - WEF and UN create strategic partnership for 2030 Agenda: https://www.weforum.org/press/2019/06/world-economic-forum-a...

   - Central bank digital currencies: https://cbdctracker.org/

   - The Russian invasion of Ukraine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

   - The BRICS alliance: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-15/brics-deb...

   - Russia and China stop attending WEF conference in 2023: https://tass.com/economy/1562563

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4. kytazoFeb 2023
   Its common knowledge that groups of powerful people like the ones attending the world economic forum annually are especially concerned about the rising population worldwide and there are many people speculating that they are actively pursuing a depopulation agenda which is a major part of what they call "sustainable goals".

   https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/...

   https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/11/world-population-pass...

   Its quite interesting how his short message gets followed up immediately by an audio mentioning genocide as one could hypothesize it relates to the climate change agenda and how global overpopulation is a major contributor to the problem.

   PS: Its also worth noting the paradigm shift he's gone through where in 2000 he authored this https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/ expressing skepticism about technology and its implications but he quickly seemed to align his views with the "futurist" agenda, part of which we see being pushed globally today as 4th industrial revolution, a term coined by the WEF global mob and analyzed in depth by the publicly available book "COVID-19 the great reset" authored by the head of WEF, Klaus Schwab.

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5. narratorDec 2022
   The guy actually reads leftist literature and analyzes it and yes it says crazy stuff. For example, Klaus Schwab, president of the World Economic Forum, wrote a book entitled "COVID-19:The Great Reset" and then you say this guy is crazy because he thinks the World Economic Forum are advocating using COVID-19 to do some Great Reset because he read it in some book. Except it's the book that the president of the world economic forum wrote and published. I read it. It's a pretty radical book. I even did a close highlight of all the kooky stuff, but I'm not going to argue with you about it because you obviously didn't read it or have never heard of it.

   If you read famous new left literature, its totally in outer space and he just says here's what it says. Then you say he's crazy for saying leftist are serious about what they wrote in their books.

   That's the irony of your comment. All the stuff that you say is crazy is stuff he reads and repeats straight out of new left books. He sounds crazy because his method is to instead of just repeat traditional conservative principals in different ways like the conservatives you mention he actually engages with the lunatic left and tells people what they say and what they say is crazy so he sounds crazy just for repeating it and then critiquing it.

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6. narratorJul 2022
   I think the WEF (World Economic Forum) is who I think of when I think of "the elites.". They have Xi Jinping give key notes and most recently had Henry Kissinger debate Soros over what to do with Ukraine at their annual private jet fueled get together in Davos. Many major government leaders like Trudeau are listed on their website as "WEF Young Global Leaders.". Vladimir Putin was even in there, but his page got deleted when the Ukraine war started.

   I struggled through Klaus Schwab's "Covid-19: The Great Reset." Klaus talks about Degrowth as a future economic model. He also talks about the Doughnut which is the gap between abject poverty and the limits of the Earth's resources as determined by earth system scientists that everyone must live between. He also says that workers will not be advantaged due to large numbers of them dying during COVID as they were advantaged after the bubonic plague because they will be replaced with automation. I'll say that none of their programs and goals would be benefited by there being more people around.

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