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The Great Reset: What’s in a Name?

January 27, 2021 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy


U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with World Economic Forum Founder Klaus Schwab before the Secretary addressed attendees on January 22, 2016, at the WEF’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. [State Department Photo/Public Domain]

At The Wall Street Journal, Vivek Ramaswamy breaks down the techniques the billionaires of Davos are using to get the Forgotten Men and Forgotten Women of the world to pursue the elite goals of the Great Reset, rather than their own best interests.

Ramaswamy takes aim at World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab, whose new book Stakeholder Capitalism, he is reviewing. Ramaswamy finishes off by noting the names of the many programs being used to achieve the globalists’ goals. He writes:

Marxists will be as disappointed by this book as classical capitalists. Mr. Schwab makes clear that “companies do not have to stop pursuing profits for their shareholders.” All he requires is that “they shift to a long-term perspective.” Why this truism requires a book and a new name for capitalism is never quite explained. Even Milton Friedman —whose famous “Friedman doctrine” held that corporate executives are primarily responsible to company shareholders, not to “society”—believed in the importance of prioritizing long-run profit interests over ephemeral short-term gains.

Mr. Schwab’s book is defined more by what it doesn’t say than by what it does. For a book whose thesis is that corporate leaders make the world a better place by pursuing social goals in addition to profit, one would expect some discussion of the most important counterargument—namely that corporate leaders might actually make the world worse, either intentionally or unintentionally, by doing exactly what Mr. Schwab demands. He is silent on that possibility.

Mr. Schwab ignores that, to solve the world’s problems, executives must first decide which problems to solve. That isn’t a technocratic judgment; it’s a moral one. Mr. Schwab sidesteps this question by saying that the final decisions should be made by “the board or the executive management” and that the board should make its decision after going through a “consultative process” in which “all stakeholders should be included.” In the end, the opinions of powerful business leaders take precedence over those of everyone else.

Democracy offers a different vision—the idea that citizens, bound together as a nation, determine the common good through public debate culminating at the ballot box. Mr. Schwab has plenty to say about the role of elites and multinational institutions but leaves no room for actual democracy.

Stakeholder Capitalism. The Great Reset. Corporate Social Responsibility. ESG (environmental, social and corporate governance). Common Good Capitalism. The list goes on. What’s in a name? More power for the people who coin the terms. As best I can tell, “stakeholder capitalism” may indeed be a more profitable version of classical capitalism—because it tricks the general public by muddying the waters.

No matter what it’s called, stakeholder capitalism, The Great Reset, ESG, etc., there’s something wrong with billionaires asking regular people to forgo their best interests in order to achieve the goals set by the elites at Davos.

Action Line: Make sure your investments, business, and future are set up to achieve the best for you and your family. You weren’t put on this planet to be a worker bee making honey for the royalty in Davos.

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E.J. Smith is Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. His focus at all times is on preparing clients and readers for “Times Like These.” E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998. E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zilldjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart (RIP) of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris. Please get in touch with E.J. at ejsmith@yoursurvivalguy.com
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