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This is a conspiracy theory about a global suit-and-tie version of TED Talks whose members consistently underperform the S&P 500. The World Economic Forum sounds important, like the IMF is, but it's nothing at all like that. It's a convention, in the ComicCon sense, that happens to be frequented by high-status people, because high-status people go where other high-status people go.

Ironically, talking about them as if they're engineering the future of Europe is probably the only thing anybody can possibly do to give them any kind of impact.

The solution to housing affordability is to build more housing. It's not complicated. But people who own housing today have a vested interest in preventing new housing development.

parent tptacek 3 years ago

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