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The Great Reset

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  • #2312
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Well, it seems he was right about those who push for lockdowns and vaccine passports having links to the WEF:

    https://twitter.com/NeilClark66/status/1367019437833019394

    https://twitter.com/garethicke/status/1367386761568083968

    So are you saying that lockdowns that have happened are not due to rises in cases of coronavirus? Why are governments around the world changing their lockdown status for local populations based on positive case numbers then? Is someone faking those case numbers? Is someone faking the subsequent deaths that then happen after the cases rise?

    How is the WEF directing all world governments to do this? Why are all world governments following this crazy plan of faking case and death numbers of their populations and forcing their economies to shut down? What is in it for the worlds govements or the WEF to cause this?


  • #2313
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    robinph wrote: »
    So are you saying that lockdowns that have happened are not due to rises in cases of coronavirus? Why are governments around the world changing their lockdown status for local populations based on positive case numbers then? Is someone faking those case numbers? Is someone faking the subsequent deaths that then happen after the cases rise?

    How is the WEF directing all world governments to do this? Why are all world governments following this crazy plan of faking case and death numbers of their populations and forcing their economies to shut down? What is in it for the worlds govements or the WEF to cause this?

    And not a single member of any of these governments, and those helping manipulate the data etc, have blown the whistle.

    The discipline of those involved to stay the course and keep their mouths shut is quite astonishing and unprecedented in human history.


  • #2314
    Quantum Baloney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 190 ✭✭Quantum Baloney


    Dohnjoe wrote: »
    We are 154 pages in, what is the conspiracy with the Great Reset?

    From memory, without having looked at this in probably months, I think the theory goes as follows:

    A consortium of very wealthy and influential people backed by powerful lobbyists (WEF) intend to rapidly instate something approximating a one world government. Their motivation for this scheme include their view that the world is overpopulated and as always, a desire for power and the massive accumulation of wealth. Their plans have been in place for a while, since agenda 21 at least, and can be seen actively right now in the various sustainability projects taking place in Ireland. Their idea is to implement some kind of communistic simulacrum which will at first be welcomed at large by the populace under the guise of the aforementioned sustainable development programs, affordable public housing, UBI, the reduction of carbon emissions, green energy, and what will be sold as a kind of benevolent scaling back of personal ownership, such as cars, household tools, and then property. All of this will run concurrently with technocratic mandates which require mandatory vaccinations (as well as other health procedures) if you are to avail of public services. House taxes will be increased and with never before seen levels of national debt imposed on sovereign countries by international banks whose stakeholders include the conspiracy's instigators, a big push will be made to re-appropriate private property. Due to taxes and the burdens of debt it will be impossible for most people to own their property. Co-living blocks will jump up all over the place for ordinary people to live in, and vast swathes of rural countryside will be made off limits for regular people. Individuals like Bill Gates will live lives of luxury, while the common man is forced to use crummy public transport in order to negotiate the nightmarish landscape of their mega city environ.

    I'm sure there is more.


  • #2315
    Dohnjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,194 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Quantum Baloney wrote: »
    From memory, without having looked at this in probably months, I think the theory goes as follows:

    A consortium of very wealthy and influential people backed by powerful lobbyists (WEF) intend to rapidly instate something approximating a one world government. Their motivation for this scheme include their view that the world is overpopulated and as always, a desire for power and the massive accumulation of wealth. Their plans have been in place for a while, since agenda 21 at least, and can be seen actively right now in the various sustainability projects taking place in Ireland. Their idea is to implement some kind of communistic simulacrum which will at first be welcomed at large by the populace under the guise of the aforementioned sustainable development programs, affordable public housing, UBI, the reduction of carbon emissions, green energy, and what will be sold as a kind of benevolent scaling back of personal ownership, such as cars, household tools, and then property. All of this will run concurrently with technocratic mandates which require mandatory vaccinations (as well as other health procedures) if you are to avail of public services. House taxes will be increased and with never before seen levels of national debt imposed on sovereign countries by international banks whose stakeholders include the conspiracy's instigators, a big push will be made to re-appropriate private property. Due to taxes and the burdens of debt it will be impossible for most people to own their property. Co-living blocks will jump up all over the place for ordinary people to live in, and vast swathes of rural countryside will be made off limits for regular people. Individuals like Bill Gates will live lives of luxury, while the common man is forced to use crummy public transport in order to traverse their nightmarish mega city environ.

    I'm sure there is more.

    Whether this is tongue-in-cheek or not, it's the same creative writing we see here all the time. Just mix in a pinch of "Satan" or "Bilderberg" every once in awhile.


  • #2316
    ASOT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,781 ✭✭✭ASOT


    Still waiting on the lads to burst through my door and take all my belongings


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  • #2317
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,993 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    ASOT wrote: »
    Still waiting on the lads to burst through my door and take all my belongings

    I've taken to wearing my watch collection on.my arms, gonna be a ball ache wearing long sleeves all summer but at least I will have items to use for bartering.


  • #2318
    sabat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,895 ✭✭✭sabat


    A few weeks ago I made a post here in which I was trying to begin building the narrative around how Ireland has been subjected to a slow-burning "colour revolution" over the past decade and how the NGOs, media and political class have been undermining our democracy and the public's perception of reality. We were talking about New Age religiosity at the time-taken in isolation that sounds a bit nuts to the casual reader-but it's relevant because it's an example of how this "global transformation movement" absorbs everything that goes against the old system, from gay rights to open borders zealotry, in order to increase its size and influence. That some of the causes are directly contradictory-eg the Migration Pact and reduction of carbon emissions-is irrelevant; it's all about building a "sphere" to defend itself against dissenters, all of whom are being shunted into the 'far right' camp. The vocabulary (see below) and symbolism (rainbows) they have in common serves as a kind of programming to let each other know they're on the same team so that when one group or individual is criticised, a huge counterattack is unleashed.

    The overall effect is utter confusion over who actually holds authority and how they obtain it, what the laws of the land actually are, and the average citizen ultimately being left disenfranchised with no means of doing anything about it.

    My post got deleted in its entirety because I made a reference to some of the posters here (not by name), but here it is again minus the first sentence:
    Have you noticed how certain words and phrases like 'empower' 'transformation' 'change' 'global leadership' 'diversity' etc have been increasing in use right across the culture, from TV shows to government documents? How new politicians like Lynn Ruane, Hazel Chu and Eileen Flynn are emerging (largely unelected) from the NGO nexus with a ready made life narrative and blanket media coverage attached which draw heavily on the language and tropes of self-help books and reality TV- "the journey" "the struggle" "the transformation" "the triumph" etc? How Pride has gone from a protest march to a parade to a festival to the whole month of June, and now with a 'Winter Pride' too? How facially disguised pseudonymous people like Rory O'Neill (Ms Panti) or David Chambers (Blindboy) with zero credentials are promoted as intellectual public figures whose opinion is important? How the government voluntarily signs us up to things like the UN migrant pact or the EU covid19 fund that they know are detrimental to the country, and then uses disingenuous phrases like "Ireland needs to meet its obligations" to give the impression that these things are legally binding?


  • #2319
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,069 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    sabat wrote: »
    A few weeks ago I made a post here in which I was trying to begin building the narrative around how Ireland has been subjected to a slow-burning "colour revolution" over the past decade and how the NGOs, media and political class have been undermining our democracy and the public's perception of reality. We were talking about New Age religiosity at the time-taken in isolation that sounds a bit nuts to the casual reader-but it's relevant because it's an example of how this "global transformation movement" absorbs everything that goes against the old system, from gay rights to open borders zealotry, in order to increase its size and influence. That some of the causes are directly contradictory-eg the Migration Pact and reduction of carbon emissions-is irrelevant; it's all about building a "sphere" to defend itself against dissenters, all of whom are being shunted into the 'far right' camp. The vocabulary (see below) and symbolism (rainbows) they have in common serves as a kind of programming to let each other know they're on the same team so that when one group or individual is criticised, a huge counterattack is unleashed.

    The overall effect is utter confusion over who actually holds authority and how they obtain it, what the laws of the land actually are, and the average citizen ultimately being left disenfranchised with no means of doing anything about it.

    My post got deleted in its entirety because I made a reference to some of the posters here (not by name), but here it is again minus the first sentence:

    what does any of this have to do with the great reset? Is hazel part of it too?


  • #2320
    Fighting Tao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,508 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    what does any of this have to do with the great reset? Is hazel part of it too?

    I think is just a rant to highlight that most people do not put up with radium any more and they don’t like it because they feel like a victim.


  • #2321
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,069 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Fighting Tao wrote: »
    I think is just a rant to highlight that most people do not put up with radium any more and they don’t like it because they feel like a victim.

    I think it is a just a variant on "I used to be able to say what I wanted without criticism but now I can't so i'm the real victim and people like Chu are the real oppressors.".


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  • #2322
    arccosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 624 ✭✭✭arccosh


    genuine question...

    what is the key bad points about the great reset?

    Are there any good points?

    What is the conspiracy, and why is "you won't own anything and be happy" being pushed as necessarily a bad thing?


  • #2323
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,069 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    arccosh wrote: »
    genuine question...

    what is the key bad points about the great reset?

    Are there any good points?

    What is the conspiracy, and why is "you won't own anything and be happy" being pushed as necessarily a bad thing?

    that is the question that has to be answered before even thinking about anything else. So far nobody has described what it actually means.


  • #2324
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,886 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    You will own nothing and will be happy . Sounds good to me. Unless you manage to find a way to live forever you don’t own anything anyway . Everything is borrowed .


  • #2325
    Quantum Baloney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 190 ✭✭Quantum Baloney


    arccosh wrote: »
    What is the conspiracy

    I did a synopsis of the theory several posts up?
    arccosh wrote: »
    and why is "you won't own anything and be happy" being pushed as necessarily a bad thing?

    Because it is taken to be a sweetened up sales pitch for a new serfdom.

    Really, some of you people need to try harder. 90% of the 'questions' and 'critiques' from the naysayers in these threads are either already answered, easily inferred, or made in bad faith.


  • #2326
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Quantum Baloney wrote: »
    I did a synopsis of the theory several posts up?



    Because it is taken to be a sweetened up sales pitch for a new serfdom.

    Really, some of you people need to try harder. 90% of the 'questions' and 'critiques' from the naysayers in these threads are either already answered, easily inferred, or made in bad faith.

    Do you mean this post?
    Could you try posting it again, but in English this time?

    All I can see there is a bunch of random words thrown together with the name Bill Gates thrown in at the end for some unknown reason. There is something about the worlds population being too large, some things about climate change and sustainable development, people using their cars less and you probably had something about virtual currency transactions.

    At no point though did you explain why these things are bad, or why these mysterious overlords that nobody is aware of, except for yourself, are wanting to strip us all of our property and how that would mean they somehow become more wealthy with the economies crashing around the world and the population massively reduced.

    How exactly does this benefit anyone? And how has Bill Gates, or whoever you think is controlling the world this week, managed to get all world governments in on the game plan?


  • #2327
    arccosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 624 ✭✭✭arccosh


    Quantum Baloney wrote: »
    I did a synopsis of the theory several posts up?



    Because it is taken to be a sweetened up sales pitch for a new serfdom.

    Really, some of you people need to try harder. 90% of the 'questions' and 'critiques' from the naysayers in these threads are either already answered, easily inferred, or made in bad faith.

    It was actually a genuine question, I hadn't seen your post.

    I don't understand why Agenda 21 is a bad thing? It's was a program that was conceived to try and curb exactly what is being seen now around the world due to consumerism, fossil fuel energy consumption and overpopulation .... if anything, it's an example of what happens when countries don't collaborate on tackling global issues..

    Most of what you described has already happened in the likes of continental Europe, where in a lot of countries, house ownership sits at around 50% or lower.... (happened numerous times in fact, due to recessions and wars... numerous great resets) ...

    As for the like of not owning things, do we need so much anyway? I saw tools mentioned in there, I had a giggle at that, I know enough metal workers who would make a few bob if that happened....then again they might get bought out by Amazon ...

    For half of the stuff to happen, you would need a completely malleable population, who survive through life by subscribing to global tech giant's products.... There would be no outside innovation and it would be presumed that no disruptor companies would ever appear.... which doesn't make any sense when technology needs continuous disruptors to advance

    I don't understand the argument of the Bill Gates and Jeff Bezo's getting richer off people during crisis...
    I thought that was one of the fundamental elements of business, spot a gap and fill it... If it wasn't them, it would be someone else...

    I could highlight a lot of the positive things those 2 have done for the world with their riches, but I feel like I'd be just wasting typing time considering the audience here (queue sarcy responses)


  • #2328
    Dohnjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,194 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Quantum Baloney wrote: »
    I did a synopsis of the theory several posts up?



    Because it is taken to be a sweetened up sales pitch for a new serfdom.

    Really, some of you people need to try harder. 90% of the 'questions' and 'critiques' from the naysayers in these threads are either already answered, easily inferred, or made in bad faith.

    "What's the conspiracy?"

    -"The devil/NWO/Communists/Fascists/etc are going to use the "Great Reset" to take over the world"

    "Okay how will this happen? in what form? what is the evidence?"

    -"The question is answered, move on"


  • #2329
    The Nal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Dohnjoe wrote: »
    "What's the conspiracy?"

    -"The devil/NWO/Communists/Fascists/etc are going to use the "Great Reset" to take over the world"

    "Okay how will this happen? in what form? what is the evidence?"

    -"The question is answered, move on"

    Bill Gates not having to get the bus is evidence apparently.


  • #2330
    Dohnjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,194 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    The Nal wrote: »
    Bill Gates not having to get the bus is evidence apparently.

    I have a theory about Gates and why the conspiracy community has gone so batshiat over him

    He's rich, an "elite", and according to conspiracy theorists that makes him "evil". Unfortunately, he bucks that trend, he's giving away most of his wealth, he dumped his corporate job, involved in a lot of philanthropy directly, helping the world's poor, he's genuinely a nice guy

    That all contradicts the conspiracy tropes about rich people, and as such they've gone for him, because he just can't be a nice, giving guy right? that would upend so many of their beliefs. On top of that most conspiracy theorists are anti-vax due to their beliefs, and with Gates strongly behind vaccines, that's just another piece of validation to them

    Just a theory


  • #2331
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,886 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    Dohnjoe wrote: »
    I have a theory about Gates and why the conspiracy community has gone so batshiat over him

    He's rich, an "elite", and according to conspiracy theorists that makes him "evil". Unfortunately, he bucks that trend, he's giving away most of his wealth, he dumped his corporate job, involved in a lot of philanthropy directly, helping the world's poor, he's genuinely a nice guy

    That all contradicts the conspiracy tropes about rich people, and as such they've gone for him, because he just can't be a nice, giving guy right? that would upend so many of their beliefs. On top of that most conspiracy theorists are anti-vax due to their beliefs, and with Gates strongly behind vaccines, that's just another piece of validation to them

    Just a theory

    Bill gates wants to stop you going to the pub


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  • #2332
    Parachutes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 971 ✭✭✭Parachutes


    Dr. Bre wrote: »
    You will own nothing and will be happy . Sounds good to me. Unless you manage to find a way to live forever you don’t own anything anyway . Everything is borrowed .

    You'll own nothing because they'll own everything. It's 'You'll own nothing' not 'We'll own nothing' for a reason.


  • #2333
    Dohnjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,194 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Parachutes wrote: »
    You'll own nothing because they'll own everything. It's 'You'll own nothing' not 'We'll own nothing' for a reason.

    *According to some Danish MP who wrote a blog article, and added a disclaimer that it was just some thought-provoking piece

    Next up, child's essay about the end of the world being taken "very seriously" by conspiracy community


  • #2334
    PintOfView
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 857 ✭✭✭PintOfView


    Parachutes wrote: »
    You'll own nothing because they'll own everything. It's 'You'll own nothing' not 'We'll own nothing' for a reason.

    I think some of this "you'll own nothing" is a bit of a misunderstanding.

    80 years ago if you wanted electricity you 'owned' your own generator.
    Then large electricity utilities came into being that made it much cheaper for you to buy your electricity than generating your own.

    Just 20 years ago any company had to have all its own computers.
    Today you have the 'cloud' where you can use someone else's computers, and pay monthly (at least for purposes that are not highly sensitive).
    A lot of companies have moved some, or all, of their computing to the cloud, so they no longer 'own' the computers they work on.

    As someone mentioned previously, in Europe a large proportion of the population rents their house / apartment instead of owning it. There is nothing to stop them owning their own house but for a large number of people it must be more attractive to rent!

    Some people are theorising that in the future you may see something similar with cars, where they will be owned by some company (eg. VW or Ford) and you rent by the hour, or day
    (this is already happening in Dublin, where cars are parked on various roads and people sign up to a web site, and can book the car for how long they want it for).

    So perhaps the 'Great Reset' started happening 100 years ago, or perhaps 200 years ago, and is just the evolution of how we all do things, and it's not planned by anyone, and just happens all by itself!!


  • #2335
    Parachutes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 971 ✭✭✭Parachutes


    PintOfView wrote: »
    I think some of this "you'll own nothing" is a bit of a misunderstanding.

    80 years ago if you wanted electricity you 'owned' your own generator.
    Then large electricity utilities came into being that made it much cheaper for you to buy your electricity than generating your own.

    Just 20 years ago any company had to have all its own computers.
    Today you have the 'cloud' where you can use someone else's computers, and pay monthly (at least for purposes that are not highly sensitive).
    A lot of companies have moved some, or all, of their computing to the cloud, so they no longer 'own' the computers they work on.

    As someone mentioned previously, in Europe a large proportion of the population rents their house / apartment instead of owning it. There is nothing to stop them owning their own house but for a large number of people it must be more attractive to rent!

    Some people are theorising that in the future you may see something similar with cars, where they will be owned by some company (eg. VW or Ford) and you rent by the hour, or day
    (this is already happening in Dublin, where cars are parked on various roads and people sign up to a web site, and can book the car for how long they want it for).

    So perhaps the 'Great Reset' started happening 100 years ago, or perhaps 200 years ago, and is just the evolution of how we all do things, and it's not planned by anyone, and just happens all by itself!!

    People rent because the average person can't afford to own a house anymore, not because that's what they actually want to do.

    Seeing the same thing happen with cars is a step backwards not a desirable thing.


  • #2336
    NovemberWren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭NovemberWren


    Quantum Baloney wrote: »

    Because it is taken to be a sweetened up sales pitch for a new serfdom.

    Really, some of you people need to try harder. 90% of the 'questions' and 'critiques' from the naysayers in these threads are either already answered, easily inferred, or made in bad faith.

    A new 'technocracy' - which will be even more absurd than the present one.
    At the moment behind their cosy glass screens, government staff mingle, [prob.without masks themselves?], soak up the information from locals, arrange an employee meeting about this information, scheme up a regulation.
    And all the while their fat Pension is mounting.


  • #2337
    PintOfView
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 857 ✭✭✭PintOfView


    Parachutes wrote: »
    People rent because the average person can't afford to own a house anymore, not because that's what they actually want to do.

    I don't know if that is 100% the case.
    There are many renters who are younger and want to live in the city, but not permanently, or are saving, etc.

    There will be a proportion who are renting because they can't afford to own their own house, but hasn't that always been the case?
    Parachutes wrote: »
    Seeing the same thing happen with cars is a step backwards not a desirable thing.

    Why is it not desirable? If 50% of today's car owners got rid of their cars and opted to rent, wouldn't that be better for the planet (less cars would need to be made, etc)?

    For people who cycle or use public transport to go to work a rentable car that is parked near your house seems like a good compromise, and much cheaper than running your own! It might also be an attractive option instead of having a second car, for eg.


  • #2338
    sabat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,895 ✭✭✭sabat


    NovemberWren wrote: »
    A new 'technocracy' - which will be even more absurd than the present one.
    At the moment behind their cosy glass screens, government staff mingle, [prob.without masks themselves?], soak up the information from locals, arrange an employee meeting about this information, scheme up a regulation.
    And all the while their fat Pension is mounting.

    It's not just limited to government regulations though-an entire culture of absolute ideological faith in the ability of technological systems to change things for the better has formed and it is the systems themselves that become more important to protect rather than the humans and our natural activities they are supposed to serve.
    Take VAR in football- literally no fan likes it; it doesn't work like it's supposed to; it has utterly failed to remove contentious decisions; it destroys continuity and it puts the players and coaches on edge, yet all debate is around tinkering with it rather than dumping it altogether. "It's new and it's technology therefore it's better" is the message that has filtered down from Silicon Valley PR bullsh1t and become an axiomatic credo.


  • #2339
    arccosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 624 ✭✭✭arccosh


    Parachutes wrote: »
    People rent because the average person can't afford to own a house anymore, not because that's what they actually want to do.

    Seeing the same thing happen with cars is a step backwards not a desirable thing.

    Unless you're in a council house or on rent allowance... you can afford a house...

    I would even argue if you were in the first 2 examples, you could still own a house, just not in Dublin or the outer suburbs....

    Rental prices are on par, if not more than a mortgage payment in some areas...

    What's stopping people from buying it the exorbitant deposit requirements, and current rent you're paying not being taken into account as "viable cashflow".
    Houses being scooped up for buy to rent which in turn inflates an areas house prices.

    This in turn is fuelled by the first point.... it's a cyclical money merry go round which has it's roots in the 08 recession, and until the banks changes their rules, it will continue to happen in Dublin and the surroundings...

    Before that, it was the merry go round of multiple mortgages, living on credit, hoping things don't go south.... which they did...

    Save your cash, live within your means, most can still purchase property, it just might not be where they envisaged, but that's simple supply vs demand economics pricing people out.... It's not new and is a problem everywhere in the world...


  • #2340
    NovemberWren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭NovemberWren


    arccosh wrote: »
    Unless you're in a council house or on rent allowance... you can afford a house...

    I would even argue if you were in the first 2 examples, you could still own a house, just not in Dublin or the outer suburbs....

    Save your cash, live within your means, most can still purchase property, it just might not be where they envisaged, but that's simple supply vs demand economics pricing people out.... It's not new and is a problem everywhere in the world...

    'unless'? you are in a council house?
    There are people in council houses with: cars and vans, stylish patios, the creme de la frontages, stockbroker accounts, taking afternoon tea at a huge local hotel, - and these people grip on like pythons to the Free council house.
    The 1800's concept of council housing and the present concept of 'poverty' needs to be re-addressed.


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  • #2341
    pearcider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,040 ✭✭✭pearcider


    PintOfView wrote: »
    I think some of this "you'll own nothing" is a bit of a misunderstanding.

    80 years ago if you wanted electricity you 'owned' your own generator.
    Then large electricity utilities came into being that made it much cheaper for you to buy your electricity than generating your own.

    Just 20 years ago any company had to have all its own computers.
    Today you have the 'cloud' where you can use someone else's computers, and pay monthly (at least for purposes that are not highly sensitive).
    A lot of companies have moved some, or all, of their computing to the cloud, so they no longer 'own' the computers they work on.

    As someone mentioned previously, in Europe a large proportion of the population rents their house / apartment instead of owning it. There is nothing to stop them owning their own house but for a large number of people it must be more attractive to rent!

    Some people are theorising that in the future you may see something similar with cars, where they will be owned by some company (eg. VW or Ford) and you rent by the hour, or day
    (this is already happening in Dublin, where cars are parked on various roads and people sign up to a web site, and can book the car for how long they want it for).

    So perhaps the 'Great Reset' started happening 100 years ago, or perhaps 200 years ago, and is just the evolution of how we all do things, and it's not planned by anyone, and just happens all by itself!!

    So instead of having the option of driving an old but reliable car (avoiding the banks and finance companies) and simply requiring to pay the government their vig in the form of tax/insurance, you want drivers to be enslaved by a private corporation too. How can you be so naive.

    These corporations just want to get in on the governments act of taxing the average person and making people less financially independent. Except you can’t vote the fat cats out and they make billions for themselves while you have to meet your payment this month and every month. And God help you if you lose your job or get sick. No car for you.

    Mussolini stated succinctly that Fascism was the merger of state and corporate power. That’s the great reset and the philosophy of the party of Davos in a nut shell. The sooner these hypocrites are strung up the better.


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