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“Owning Nothing and Being Happy” is the Right Objective
…but it shouldn’t be approached the way the World Economic Forum envisions it
The WEF’s annual meeting in Davos has wrapped, and it’s funny to see these “elites” continue having the right ideas but looking at them through the wrong lens.
For now, let’s revisit where the “Great Reset” catchphrase/mission theoretically originated, and explore why its core ambition is indeed virtuous yet terribly off the mark in its proposed method of implementation.
Vision of utopia
In 2020, WEF executive Chairman Klaus Schwab and Monthly Barometer founder Thierry Malleret co-authored COVID-19: The Great Reset, a book that “is a guide for anyone who wants to understand how COVID-19 disrupted our social and economic systems, and what changes will be needed to create a more inclusive, resilient and sustainable world going forward.” This is when the term first garnered attention.
The whole “owning nothing and being happy” vision came years before.
After Danish politician and member of the WEF’s Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization, Ida Auken published an essay in Forbes in 2016 titled Welcome To 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better, there’s…
