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Re:What Broke Sweden? Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide by listenallyall on Saturday April 01, 2023 @09:15PM (#35406063)
> no power other than arranging the name tags on the lunch tables

The WEF itself would starkly disagree.

For more than 50 years, the Forum has engaged global Partners to drive significant impact – creating historic initiatives, industry breakthroughs, economic solutions and tens of thousands of projects and collaborations – improving the state of the world

That's a lot more than arranging name tags.

https://www.weforum.org/impact

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Re:What Broke Sweden? Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide by tptacek on Saturday April 01, 2023 @10:44PM (#35406631)
The WEF says it's important. Shocking.
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Re:What Broke Sweden? Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide by mthoms on Saturday April 01, 2023 @11:02PM (#35406730)
That’s not what “power” means. They don’t have the power to force anything to happen outside their little get together.

The only “power” they have is limited to what participants can or can’t do while attending. Such as: they have the power to require attendees wear their name tags as a condition for attending.

(Not sure if that’s actually a thing; it’s merely illustrative)

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Re:What Broke Sweden? Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide by listenallyall on Sunday April 02, 2023 @04:41PM (#35414959)
If you only think power = force, you don't understand how real power is wielded. You're absolutely correct, WEF will not jail you if you do something its members don't like. If you assume that means it doesn't have any power other than enforcing name tag rules, you're naive.
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Re:What Broke Sweden? Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide by mthoms on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @04:24PM (#35445404)
Can you give an example where they have wielded this power? That is, can you give a single, solitary example where the WEF has implemented something that goes against the wishes of the electorate somewhere? Anything?
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Re:What Broke Sweden? Real Estate Bust Exposes Big Divide by listenallyall on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @08:00AM (#35538266)
I don't think you'll find a single person, including hardcore climate deniers, (let alone an entire "electorate") that would endorse 1000+ private jets all heading to the same event. Why not hold the conference over Zoom?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment...

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