Commentary
It’s now 50 years since Klaus Martin Schwab, a mechanical engineer and founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF), launched the first-ever Davos Manifesto, a call to leaders to imagine a better world, one where all humans, the rich and the poor, lived in complete and utter harmony. However, as many readers are all too aware, all utopias are, in fact, dystopias. Fast forward five decades, and Schwab, now a multimillionaire, is intent on making his dystopian vision a global reality.
Although Schwab has benefited greatly from capitalism, his organization, the WEF, appears to abhor the economic and political system. Capitalism is intimately associated with equal opportunity. But, for Schwab and his colleagues, equality of opportunity simply isn’t good enough. A more just society, insist the elites in Davos, must be built around equality of outcome. For this to occur, capitalism must be “reimagined,” and individual freedoms cast aside. Our freedom, of course. Not theirs….