This is blatantly not true.
TED doesn't make official agreements with governments:
https://www.canada.ca/en/news/archive/2015/01/canada-joins-w...
https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/recgen/cpc-pac/2021/vol3/ds6/i...
> It's random executives networking and trying to make themselves seem more important than they are.
And government officials. Schwab bragged about "infiltrating" governments around the world:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhHmy9AQLBA
And when the government officials are asked about it they do not want to answer:
https://summit.news/2022/02/21/video-canadian-mps-audio-feed...
> Fun fact: companies that participate in the WEF underperform the S&P
That's irrelevant. What is worrying is that they are among the biggest and involved in all critical industries and have a quasi monopoly on their industries and as a whole. By collaborating together over political goals they form a plutocratic autocracy.
Important people show up at Davos because it's a networking event and an easy way to get publicity. Important people have attended TED talks, too. That doesn't mean TED is a shadowy extragovernmental puppetmaster.
The links I've posted are not talks...
Show me where the Government of Canada has actual agreements with TED to enact, decide or orientate policy.
> Therefore: the WEF has "infiltrated" governments around the world.
My source is the head of the WEF.
> Important people show up at Davos because it's a networking event
This doesn't make sense, important people do not need networking events, the are already public figures.
> Important people have attended TED talks, too. That doesn't mean TED is a shadowy extragovernmental puppetmaster.
You're making a straw man argument, I didn't say that.
Matthew Yglesias probably has more impact on policy than the WEF does. That's not a compliment to Yglesias.
Citation needed.