Davos 2024: A lot of noise and...

DAVOS 2024

Davos 2024: A lot of noise and... ...bitter almonds.

From 15 to 19 January 2024, the fifty-fourth edition of the World Economic Forum took place in Davos. From our Valencia real estate agency we followed it very closely and to a certain extent we had the hope of being able to head our article with Shakespeare's famous phrase that gives life to one of his comedies: Much ado about nothing. The problem is that, out of all this, there was only a lot of noise, because the nuts were replaced by almonds and the almonds... were bitter, with the risk to life that this entails if they are consumed too much.

Of course, you have to be willing to tolerate the distressing taste of bitter almonds for your existence to be in danger. However, the exponents have masterfully managed to sell us the poison in a package that promises the most delicious cake. That is why from our luxury real estate agency Valencia we have broken down and delved deep into the measures that were simmered for a whole year and served in an express menu for five days in which, once again, they confirm to us that this annual meeting is merely a display of state capitalism, cronyism, mercantilism and predatory socialism. Find out with us what the Davos Forum hid behind its "solutions".

In the absence of one, there were four axes around which the speech at the Davos Forum revolved:

  • Climate change
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Fake news
  • Inequality

Proposals to address the first three are packaged as follows: more state interventionism; more regulation; higher taxes; and opening the door to some form of censorship of critical journalists and independent communicators.

Therefore, those of us who had hoped that the great world leaders, those who stand on the podium with the banner of equality and better opportunities for all, would finally surprise us with winds of deregulation and tax reduction, woke up on 20 January with our hopes shattered and a black outlook before our eyes.

Small and large entrepreneurs, even those who lead multinationals if they are not included in the cronyism of those who orchestrate the World Economic Forum, were warned that they will have to tighten their belts, because there will be less of everything for everyone.

Wealth for five

From 2020 onwards, there was an unprecedented movement of capital in history: the five richest people on the planet (multi-billionaires, to be linguistically more rigid) saw their coffers of wealth increase, while five billion people witnessed their resources (savings, salaries, flats...) being drained away.

It is true that capitalism is, by definition, the accumulation of capital by a small fraction of the population, but five people in a world of eight billion is a mockery in our own faces.

When it was the turn of this issue to be addressed, a letter signed by two hundred and fifty billionaires was presented, requesting that the government tax them more in order to level out inequality to some extent. Is it that easy? The truth is that reality has a much simpler option for this group of good Samaritans: the donation box. The legislation of most countries provides for the possibility of making a donation to the state itself.

Therefore, there is no need to raise our hands in Davos and be so enthusiastic about a measure that, once we have put it on the table, we know that the door to it being applied to the whole population will have been left open.

Javier Milei and Pedro Sánchez - polar opposites display their proposals in Davos

The new meeting of mega-businessmen and politicians in Davos would have had no significant novelties (it was all more of the same as we had been hearing for some years, even with vestiges of "you will have nothing and you will be happy") if it had not been for the disruptive speech of Javier Milei, the brand new president of Argentina who came to fight the left.

Given that the World Economic Forum has managed to create a "capitalist" effect in its proposals, when it has already become abundantly clear that it is a right-wing elite intent on plunging the world into left-wing control and poverty, Javier Milei's speech was the oasis that an increasingly desertified world was in need of.

The Argentinean president made an announcement that caught the attention of all listeners, and then began to shoot at all those responsible for having arrived at such a situation, which was completely avoidable: "The West is in danger", were the words that preceded the polite greeting.

The West, historically characterised by values such as individual freedom, capitalism, free trade and liberal economics, is today on the brink of the abyss as the state increasingly seeks to curtail all these freedoms in order to impose measures that are clearly aimed at harming the population of the three traditional economic and social classes in order to favour states and mega-corporations, especially those dedicated to producing goods whose consumption is to be promoted: weapons of war and "renewable" energies.

What no one tells us, however, is that there is nothing renewable about electric vehicles, which, once they have reached the end of their useful life, become waste destined to feed the world's great rubbish dumps.

While Milei brought to Davos his already well-known discourse of reducing the state to its minimum expression, Pedro Sánchez, who took the podium immediately after the Argentinean president had lacerate the consciences of the globalists who are leading us to imminent poverty and a loss of wealth of those who today have the privilege of belonging to the upper class, raised the unpostponable need for the state to take on a protagonism of medieval-monarchical dyes in the lives of citizens.

Digital identity - angel or demon?

Who could say that a document that will allow us to do paperwork in the blink of an eye, that will allow us to avoid the bureaucratic hurdles of laziness (or maybe even fun) and that will make it impossible to hijack our identity for fraudulent purposes would be counterproductive? Who could think badly of an effort that governments will make for our security, especially after seeing Máxima, the Queen Consort of the Netherlands, speak wonders of digital identity in her angelic voice?

What happens in China when someone behaves in a way that goes against the government's arbitrary instructions? They are simply identified and, depending on the degree of their dissent, punished, ranging from withdrawal of social credits to imprisonment or even disappearance.

Digital identity aims to bring all your documents together: ID card, passport, health card and driving licence, in one place. In this way, all your data will be stored by the government, from where they will know whether you have been vaccinated to what goods and services you have bought and what websites you have visited. web you have visited. And none of this will be used merely for statistical purposes, let alone in your favour, but will be the tool at the state's disposal to dissuade you from doing anything that the ruling and economic elites find annoying.

In addition to the government getting its hands on the method it has always wanted to prevent you from buying certain goods and services, as well as rationing your monthly or annual consumption of certain products, they will also be able to cross-reference your data with companies that maintain "convenience connections" with the state. Imagine what would happen if your health data, which is not ideal for a standard-priced life insurance policy, fell into the hands of an insurance company. Would they give you the policy? If so, would they charge you the same price?

The Davos Forum - a danger that goes far beyond a bundle of stifled expectations

There is no doubt that anyone who has managed to forge anything resembling wealth, or is on the way to doing so, saw their expectations diluted as of 20 January. However, the dangers forged in Davos this year go far beyond the gradual impoverishment of the middle class and limiting the resources and freedoms of the upper classes.

If we are not careful with our vote, we will have to start being careful with our actions, as any one of us could be labelled a dissident, or even a terrorist, just for the sake of making the media work harder to provide transparency, even for the sake of making the media work harder to avoid the fake newsand for exposing the predation of the state on its citizens.

It seems that if you don't behave like a good subject, they can do worse than stop you from buying your Valencia penthouse: they can take it off your hands.  

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