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Stay in Your Lane, Everyone
American Thinker ^ | 23 Jan, 2024 | Christopher Chantrill

Posted on 01/23/2024 4:53:37 AM PST by MtnClimber

Joel Kotkin reports from Davos that things are not well with Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum. Says he:

The growing irrelevance of what Adrian Wooldridge has labelled “the progressive aristocracy” can even be seen in the less than enthusiastic press coverage. Politico describes the contemporary Davos crowd as a “smart set” which “sounds dumb.”

Then he sticks in the shiv:

The grandees don’t have to travel far to see the results of their “reset” as nearby Germany’s industrial machine collapses, with even its last solar panel plant about to go belly-up.

But then there was Javier Milei’s rousing speech in Davos where he said that economic growth down the centuries looks like a “hockey stick.” No growth since forever, then all of a sudden a takeoff that has reduced extreme poverty from 95% of humanity to 5%.

So how come academia, international organisations, economic theorists and politicians demonise an economic system that has not only lifted 90% of the world’s population out of extreme poverty but has continued to do this faster and faster?

Good point, Javier. How come all these experts think that they can run the economy better than the businessmen? And what do we do about it?

I have a simple solution. It is this:

EVERYBODY: STAY IN YOUR LANE!

If you are an academic, stick to counting the number of angels on the head of a pin. And remember this: if “experts agree” on the number of angels, it means that someone has corrupted you. Experts never agree, because every expert believes in his own pet theory, and knows that the other expert´s theory isn’t worth the paper it is printed on. Stay In Your Lane, academics and experts!

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: adrianwooldridge; americanthinker; argentina; christopherchantrill; cop26; davos; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; hockeystick; javiermilei; joelkotkin; klausschwab; panicporn; politico; smartset; soundsdumb; wef

1 posted on 01/23/2024 4:53:37 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Power still corrupts.


2 posted on 01/23/2024 4:53:47 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Marx was an angry failure and he took out his anger on all the successful people who were able to build a better world. He hated those guys. His adherents are just the same.


3 posted on 01/23/2024 4:56:23 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: MtnClimber
sounds dumb

Sounds?

4 posted on 01/23/2024 4:56:52 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: MtnClimber
How power corrupts Why do we get the wrong leaders?
5 posted on 01/23/2024 4:58:12 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: MtnClimber

“So how come academia, international organisations, economic theorists and politicians demonise an economic system that [ ]”

.... pays them high incomes, allows them to live, work and travel in great comfort, drive EVs, have iphones, ...


6 posted on 01/23/2024 5:01:33 AM PST by Susquehanna Patriot
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One should be embarrassed to be associated with the fanatically chimerical WEF


7 posted on 01/23/2024 5:11:12 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


8 posted on 01/23/2024 5:23:43 AM PST by nopardons
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To: Gene Eric

“One should be embarrassed to be associated with the fanatically chimerical WEF”

That’s right, but they’re not. Useful Idiots are rarely embarrassed.


9 posted on 01/23/2024 5:30:05 AM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: MtnClimber

Communists always wreck everyone else’s life before moving on to the next problem.

Money just makes it easier.


10 posted on 01/23/2024 5:45:59 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: MtnClimber

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11 posted on 01/23/2024 6:49:26 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: Gene Eric

Nobody would be embarrassed to fly to Switzerland in January for sumptuous buffets and a grand selection of hookers. All they have to do is sit through a bunch of boring seminars and then they get to go to some lavish cocktail parties. They don’t ever want it to end. They are laser focused on being able to go again next year.


12 posted on 01/23/2024 7:17:33 AM PST by webheart
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To: MtnClimber

Well I hope and pray that wef falls into obscurity, but have a feeling that they might be tied into the end times as their drive for global unity aligns with prophecy about the end times for sure.


13 posted on 01/23/2024 7:20:36 AM PST by Bob434
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To: MtnClimber

Next year they should invite HAMAS and get their input on globalization.


14 posted on 01/23/2024 7:28:21 AM PST by shotgun
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To: MtnClimber
FANTASTIC article and suggestion. Stick to your knitting, mind your own damn business and clean up around your own back door before you even think about telling someone else what to do with theirs!

Wealth and supposed intellect do not license not minding your own damn business!!!

15 posted on 01/23/2024 9:24:03 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: laplata; Gene Eric

Useful idiots have no conscience or boundaries.


16 posted on 01/23/2024 9:25:15 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: Sequoyah101

That’s right.


17 posted on 01/23/2024 11:08:41 AM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: MtnClimber

People my age were taught by their parents to mind their own business. That seems to be no longer the case.


18 posted on 01/23/2024 8:05:20 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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