Posted on 07/21/2022 11:54:32 AM PDT by rktman
What do you call an economic system where a relative few individuals own all the land and most of the people who live on that land do so at the sufferance of the landowner?
It's feudalism.
This was the economic system in most of Europe during the Middle Ages. The vast majority of the population was born into, lived and died in poverty. There was little hope for upward mobility unless one opted for a career in military service or the clergy. (From time to time, extraordinarily pretty peasant girls might be married off to a lesser lord.)
The rise of mercantilism and the guild system in northern Europe brought major changes to European feudalism. Poor youth could be apprenticed to merchants and artisans where they learned a skill and a trade. After a time, apprentices could establish shops of their own. This system eventually created a middle class, and the economic power achieved by the guilds and their members soon translated to political power as well.
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The Georgia Guidestones laid it out before it was physically destroyed.
They have already taken care that.
You’re going to see a precipitous drop in the birthrate in “vaxxed” countries, along with a large number of deaths from “sudden.” They’re trying for a soft landing.
Well, I ain’t birthin’ no babies. ππ
All food and/or high tech food producing systems will be patented by the billionaires/globalists. By collapsing existing AG with climate edicts, people will be begging for food and then along comes the tech food. GMO Corn/Soy seed is already patented. It's starting to fail but not many people know that. There are a lot of RoundUp resistant weeds these days and more are gaining resistance all the time.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4080013/posts?page=34#34
Add to the above, Food Traceability - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=food+traceability
It’s a coming thing as well and the tech food produced indoors will have an advantage over traditional food. Likewise, the billionaire owned food systems, even when produced traditionally but using gene-edited livestock, will also have an advantage. Money and their custom DNA animals.
Gee, ya suppose they’ll figure out how to tie Food Traceability to Digital currencies and digital IDs?
The solution is simple since the WEF members say we will own nothing and be happy.
Start with all the land holdings in the USA owned by any member of the WEF. Transfer all their land to small farms making them medium sized farms. Confiscate all the wealth they have in the USA then deposit it into the debt account of the USA to help pay it back.
For good measure confiscate all the wealth stolen using insider trading by any US politician or their families. Confiscate any ill gotten wealth using political connections such as what the biden’s did. Again; deposit into the debt account.
Stop all monies going to any illegal immigrant or their offspring. End anchor baby citizenship.
Within just a few years America will be great AGAIN.
Good points. But Kaiser Klaus βvill be verry angry..β
You/we will also own nothing and love it!
Welcome To 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better
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By Ida Auken
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Welcome to the year 2030. Welcome to my city - or should I say, “our city.” 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.
It might seem odd to you, but it makes perfect sense for us in this city. Everything you considered a product, has now become a service. We have access to transportation, accommodation, food and all the things we need in our daily lives. One by one all these things became free, so it ended up not making sense for us to own much.
First communication became digitized and free to everyone. Then, when clean energy became free, things started to move quickly. Transportation dropped dramatically in price. It made no sense for us to own cars anymore, because we could call a driverless vehicle or a flying car for longer journeys within minutes. We started transporting ourselves in a much more organized and coordinated way when public transport became easier, quicker and more convenient than the car.
Now I can hardly believe that we accepted congestion and traffic jams, not to mention the air pollution from combustion engines. What were we thinking?
Sometimes I use my bike when I go to see some of my friends. I enjoy the exercise and the ride. It kind of gets the soul to come along on the journey. Funny how some things seem never seem to lose their excitement: walking, biking, cooking, drawing and growing plants. It makes perfect sense and reminds us of how our culture emerged out of a close relationship with nature.
In our city we don’t pay any rent, because someone else is using our free space whenever we do not need it. My living room is used for business meetings when I am not there.
Once in a while, I will choose to cook for myself. It is easy - the necessary kitchen equipment is delivered at my door within minutes. Since transport became free, we stopped having all those things stuffed into our home. Why keep a pasta-maker and a crepe cooker crammed into our cupboards? We can just order them when we need them.
This also made the breakthrough of the circular economy easier. When products are turned into services, no one has an interest in things with a short life span. Everything is designed for durability, repairability and recyclability. The materials are flowing more quickly in our economy and can be transformed to new products pretty easily.
Environmental problems seem far away, since we only use clean energy and clean production methods. The air is clean, the water is clean and nobody would dare to touch the protected areas of nature because they constitute such value to our well-being. In the cities we have plenty of green space and plants and trees all over. I still do not understand why in the past we filled all free spots in the city with concrete.
Shopping? I can’t really remember what that is. For most of us, it has been turned into choosing things to use. Sometimes I find this fun, and sometimes I just want the algorithm to do it for me. It knows my taste better than I do by now.
When AI and robots took over so much of our work, we suddenly had time to eat well, sleep well and spend time with other people. The concept of rush hour makes no sense anymore, since the work that we do can be done at any time. I don’t really know if I would call it work anymore. It is more like thinking-time, creation-time and development-time.
For a while, everything was turned into entertainment and people did not want to bother themselves with difficult issues. It was only at the last minute that we found out how to use all these new technologies for better purposes than just killing time.
My biggest concern is all the people who do not live in our city. Those we lost on the way. Those who decided that it became too much, all this technology. Those who felt obsolete and useless when robots and AI took over big parts of our jobs.
Those who got upset with the political system and turned against it. They live different kind of lives outside of the city. Some have formed little self-supplying communities. Others just stayed in the empty and abandoned houses in small 19th century villages.
Once in a while I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. Nowhere I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use it against me.
All in all, it is a good life. Much better than the path we were on, where it became so clear that we could not continue with the same model of growth. We had all these terrible things happening: lifestyle diseases, climate change, the refugee crisis, environmental degradation, completely congested cities, water pollution, air pollution, social unrest and unemployment. We lost way too many people before we realized that we could do things differently.
This blog was written ahead of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the Global Future Councils.
Ida Auken is a Young Global Leader and Member of the Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization of the World Economic Forum,
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Go Green!
You will own nothing, and you better say you’re happy,,,,, or else.
Progressing right back to fiefdoms.
Progs are regressive .
Yes we should call them regressive instead of progressives. They do want to return to feudalism with extremely wealthy and powerfu elite families at the top, and the rest of the world as miserable controlled slaves, in place of the large stable middle class that arose in America. They want to return us to the dark ages.
Absentee landlords and tenant farming. Nothing new there, and neither is the "re-imagined" lust for empire.
True Americans need to assist all communists to be the best they can be...
Land in Israel will be as high as San Francisco if this keeps up.
Yep.
You have to be seriously mentally ill to even believe in the concept of the WEF greenie utopian fantasyland.
Isn’t the immature wet dream of a utopian society what Marx and Lenin rammed down peoples’ throats? Yep.
We’re going to have to feed that tree of liberty, soon.
All by executive order and not by a vote. We have a government run by dictators
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