{"id":1492251,"date":"2022-05-25T18:45:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T22:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1492251"},"modified":"2022-05-25T18:45:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T22:45:12","slug":"the-elitists-who-want-to-rule-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-elitists-who-want-to-rule-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elitists Who Want To Rule The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-elitists-who-want-to-rule-the-world%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1492251&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Klaus Schwab is the head of the World Economic Forum; he founded the organization in 1971. Each year, the WEF hosts a massive conference in Davos, Switzerland, with thousands of world leaders, diplomats and experts on various topics gathering to trade ideas about how best to cooperatively run the world. Lest this characterization be seen as overstating the case, Schwab himself said as much this year in opening the conference: \u201cThe future is not just happening. The future is built by us, by a powerful community as you here in this room. We have the means to improve the state of the world. But two conditions are necessary. The first one is that we act all as stakeholders of larger communities, that we serve not only self-interest but we serve the community. That\u2019s what we call stakeholder responsibility. And second, that we collaborate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-slot-rendered-dynamic=\"true\">This is the call to action for elitists the world over. They appoint themselves the representatives of global interests \u2014 without elections, without accountability \u2014 and then create mechanisms of national and international order to control citizens over whom they claim to preside. Schwab himself has decoded his favorite term, \u201cstakeholder capitalism.\u201d He wrote in Time magazine in October 2020, \u201cFree markets, trade and competition create so much wealth that in theory they could make everyone better off if there was the will to do so.\u201d To do so, however, would require taking hints from Greta Thunberg, #MeToo and Black Lives Matter; it would require \u201cbuilding \u2026 a virtuous economic system\u201d in which companies abandon their core mission of serving customers and shareholders and instead embrace answering questions like \u201cWhat is the gender pay gap in company X? How many people of diverse backgrounds were hired and promoted? What progress has the company made toward reducing its greenhouse-gas emissions?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-slot-rendered-dynamic=\"true\">All of this extraordinary arrogance is predicated on a perverse view of how successful change works within decentralized systems. As Schwab himself acknowledges, free markets have generated more prosperity than any system in human history. But that\u2019s because free markets are not a top-down imposition, a system created by conspiratorial muckety-mucks in a back room somewhere. Free markets were the outgrowth of centuries of evolutionary societal progress: gradual recognition that private ownership was the greatest incentive toward work and innovation; incremental understanding that individual rights are the only alternative to endless conflict; step-by-step acceptance that decentralized sources of knowledge are both broader and deeper than centralized ones. The most powerful and durable institutions we have are traditional because, as F.A. Hayek wrote, they are \u201ca product of cumulative growth without ever having been designed by any one mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Schwab and his ilk, however, it\u2019s precisely such an evolutionary approach that must be ended. Instead, he and his rationalist buddies \u2014 brilliant businessmen and ambitious politicians, striving bureaucrats and myopic experts \u2014 will cure the world of its ills, so long as we grant them power. Or, more likely, so long as they seize power in the name of \u201cstakeholders\u201d to whom they are never answerable.<\/p>\n<p>One of the great ironies of the past several years is the gap between the elitists\u2019 perception of themselves. To the elitists, their solutions failed because citizens of the world lacked the will to listen to them; to the citizens, the elitists failed because their prescriptions were ill-founded. Yet so long as the elitists retain their power, they will continue to push forward their utopian dreams at the expense of those they purport to serve.<\/p>\n<p>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Klaus Schwab is the head of the World Economic Forum; he founded the organization in 1971. Each year, the WEF hosts a massive conference in Davos, Switzerland, with thousands of world leaders, diplomats and experts on various topics gathering to trade ideas about how best to cooperatively run the world. 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