BLUF:[MISES WIRE] The cozy relationship between multinational corporations and governments has even aroused the scorn of a few leftist academics. Some note that the UN-WEF partnership and the governance model of the WEF represent at least the privatization of the UN’s Agenda 2030, with the WEF bringing corporate partners, money, and supposed expertise on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4-IR) to the table. And the WEF’s governance model extends well beyond the UN, affecting the constitution and behavior of governments worldwide. This usurpation has led political scientist Ivan Wecke to call the WEF’s governmental redesign of the world system "a corporate takeover of global governance."
This is true, but the WEF model also represents the governmentalization of private industry. UnÂder Schwab’s stakeholder capitalism and the mulÂtistakeholder governance model, governance is not only increasingly privatized, but also and more imÂportantly, corporations are deputized as major addiÂtions to governments and intergovernmental bodies. The state is thereby extended, enhanced, and augÂmented by the addition of enormous corporate asÂsets. These include funding directed at "sustainable development" to the exclusion of the noncompliant as well as the use of Big Data, artificial intelligence, and 5G to monitor and control citizens.
But first the conditions for global government must be established and these conditions include the breakdown of national sovereignty, the abrogation of natural rights, and the reduction of the standard of living of the vast majority. "Affluence," writes Sean Fleming for the WEF, "is the biggest threat to our world. . . . True sustainability will only be achieved through drastic lifestyle changes."