‘s fans TV series succession Would know the latest series made no mention of the coronavirus. The calculation is simple: the characters are Murdoch-esque billionaire families, and as one actor put it, “the really rich people in the world won’t be affected by the pandemic.”

But this is wrong!rich man have affected.Goldman Sachs bankers are not receive their usual bonus This year: they get two. Our financial aristocracy also suffered. The World Economic Forum meeting in Davos was cancelled for the second year in a row.Wait, not cancel – to make matters worse, Davos has On the line. All speeches by world leaders; no party with Matt Damon.

terrifying event. No one becomes a billionaire to watch Ursula von der Leyen’s webinar. There’s no honor in Zoom where it happens. I strongly suspect that the elites spent less time on Klaus Schwab this week than they did on nasal swabs.

Can Davos survive the latest insults? Things were bad in 2019 when Donald Trump did not appear. The next year, when he did, it got worse. Discussing the dangers of climate change on a private jet is now widely considered suboptimal. Schwab, who founded the World Economic Forum in 1971, is 83 years old. Will Davos itself retire? Or at least move to the metaverse, where it can sell thought bubble NFTs?

To answer this question, we must examine what Davos is. Regal Parade? The antisocial superspreader event? No. It hit me last week: Davos is best understood as a branch of New Age spirituality.

Take a look at the UK’s best selling books and you’ll find Checklist: 7 Steps to Living Your Best Life. This is a guide to “performing,” believing that you can change reality to a great extent through the power of positive thinking. We change our thoughts and thus our emotions. This changes the frequency at which we release energy, which in turn changes the energy we receive. If you’re feeling erratic, don’t worry: if you act like you deserve what you want – a job, a girlfriend, an honest prime minister – the universe will provide it.

This theory is totally crazy, totally Davos. Who are the attendees of the World Economic Forum but have lost their souls? As Schwab and his co-author Thierry Malleret did, in their new book, The great narrative of a better future: “In private conversations, we’ve also heard policymakers admit ‘they’re a little lost’ or ‘don’t know what’s going on’.”

What is Davos, but these people try decision maker Create your own reality? For decades, attendees have been thinking about equality and sustainability. For decades, they’ve expected to deliver these things through a good vibe, not through the tax code. What matters is thought. Action – leave it to us little people.

Conspiracy theorists claim that the World Economic Forum created the coronavirus to achieve a state of surveillance. Ironically, Davos could barely achieve anything, let alone this one. Before the arrival of Covid-19, the demigods of Mount Olympus in Switzerland knew the risk of infectious diseases. In 2019, A report from the World Economic Forum warns The world is “unprepared for a major pandemic threat”. So what does it change? Well, it might feel interesting to be at the center of such an important discussion. Davos was set up to make us feel optimistic about the world’s problems; expecting it to actually solve them is like making a toaster boil water.

You can’t get a good vibe on a webinar panel. But glad you can manifest anywhere. Forget the Alps. If you are part of the Davos elite, you can solve problems at home. Or at your other home. Or in space. Or, depending on the outcome of your attorney’s negotiations with the U.S. Department of Justice, jail time. You see, 0.1% are not like us. They’re like Gen Z hippies.

[email protected]