“Capitalism is what people do when you leave them alone.”
~ Professor Kenneth R. Minogue
Written by Bryan Lutz, Editor at Dollarcollapse.com:
Klaus Schwab’s violent nature started close to home.
Where he believes the most effective human organizations “force collaboration.”
Then it ought expand outward to bring economic prosperity to the world.
In a recent speech at “Summer Davos,” Dalian, China, Schwab proclaimed his vision for economic prosperity.
“To drive future economic growth we must embrace innovation and force the collaboration across sectors, regions, nations, and cultures to create a more peaceful, inclusive, sustainable, and resilient future.”
That is what Schwab announced to the thousands in attendance last week.
But his testing ground proves far from anything most of the world would consider equitable or fair.
In fact, his own organization, the World Economic Forum, has a long history of “forced collaboration,” racism, and sexual abuse.
Here’s one example from the top…
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Behind Davos, Claims of a Toxic Workplace
“A few years ago Klaus Schwab, the octogenarian founder of the World Economic Forum, decided the organization needed a youthful makeover.
So he singled out a group of employees over 50 years old and instructed his human-resources chief to get rid of them all, according to people familiar with the matter. This, he explained, would lower the average age of the workforce. The HR chief, a seasoned former World Bank executive named Paolo Gallo, declined, pointing out that there has to be a reasonable explanation for firing somebody, such as poor performance. Not long after, Schwab fired Gallo.”
Then there’s the years of unwanted touching…
“In 2018, Justyna Swiatkowska made a complaint to the legal and HR departments that George Karam, a manager, had asked her out for drinks after work and engaged in unwanted touching and forcible kissing…
…A colleague had made a similar complaint about Karam that year. The two accusers discovered others as well, including a woman who told them she had complained about him years earlier.”
And the relaxed, open lunch room racism leading to out-right cursing.
“Two managers in recent years said the N-word in front of Black women working for them.
One of them was Schwab’s longtime operations chief, Jean-Loup Denereaz. Several employees described off-color remarks that he made over the years, including one incident in which a woman complained to bosses in 2017 that he made inappropriate comments in response to a sexual harassment complaint brought to him.
Denereaz was fired by the Forum in 2018 after an incident in which he belittled a Black woman on his team in the open office. As he walked away, he said, “What can you expect from a N–,” according to people familiar with the episode.”
You see, collaboration cannot be forced.
Forcing collaboration violates voluntary, collaborative action.
Instead, whenever people are left alone they find ways to collaborative without anyone forcing anyone…
They find ways to trade skills and resources to benefit one another.
That is collaboration.
It is based on free, voluntary action to the benefit of each individual no matter how much elites attempt to justify their forcing.
No matter how many calculations smart people do…
No matter the strong man who sets the rules…
And no matter the “equality,” or individual rights of man…
The basis for collaboration, for civilization, is non-coercive (non-violent) transactions that benefit both parties.
Bill Bonner writes in his book, ‘A Modest Theory of Civilization: Win-Win or Lose’:
“Fortunately, civilization does not depend on smart people. Nor does it depend on vases or sculpture…on literature or architecture…on democracy…on conquest or culture…on equality…on the rights of man…or on armies, trains, or courts. Instead, it i what you get when you remove violence and permit civilized, win-win-deals to happen.”
Win-win deals…
In other words, cooperation.
Cooperation is the “invisible hand” Adam Smith deferred to in the Wealth of Nations.
It is what all those who prefer to command, intervene, and regulate economic activity prefer to ignore.
But cooperation without force is what’s required for peaceful, prosperous, free living.
And that is the total opposite of Schwab’s legacy of “forced collaboration.”
