World business leaders are  talking about a “great reset” – what is it, and what impact could it have on all of us?

So if you’ve been paying attention lately to the World Economic Forum (WEF) you’ve been hearing of this concept: The Great Reset.

They claim the world economy has been broken because of the coronavirus, and to fix it, we have to turn the  economy off, and then back on again. “Moving forward, you should expect  the government to take a more active role in its economy and society issues.” – Thierry Malleret, Co-Founder, WEF.

The idea of a Great Reset has been around for years, but it really started to gain traction back in June 2020, when the World Economic Forum officially announced their ‘Great Reset’ Initiative. They write;

There is an urgent need for global stakeholders to cooperate in simultaneously managing the direct consequences of the COVID-19 crisis. To improve the state of the world, the World Economic Forum is starting The Great Reset initiative.

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Even if you haven’t heard of the World Economic Forum, you’ve probably heard of Davos, which is their annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. It’s where more than 3,000 business leaders,  politicians, prominent activists, and others meet to talk about how they’re making the world a better place. In their opinion. It’s basically Burning Man for the global elite.

Davos partners include some of the  biggest companies in the world, like Alibaba, Google, Goldman Sachs, Huawei, Blackrock, JP Morgan Chase,  McKinsey, Citi, Coca-Cola, Microsoft,  Facebook…you get the picture. The last Davos summit happened in January this year, just as the coronavirus crisis was spreading around the world.

The other crisis is the economic devastation. As governments around the world followed the Chinese Communist Party’s lock-down model, small businesses were forced to  close, and job losses have skyrocketed. So with these twin crises caused by the ‘virus’, and other governments’ responses to the coronavirus, what can be done?

Well, the WEF has a solution; The Great Reset. This is not the first time the WEF has come up with a grand-sounding global ‘solution’—the kind that depending on your point of view sounds either inspirational or terrifying. Like when they talked about Globalization 4.0: shaping a new global architecture in the age of  the fourth industrial revolution;

Or articles titled Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World (2017), or The Great Transformation (2012). With names like these, I’m surprised people weren’t concerned with  the WEF until now, as it’s clear they’ve been wanting to remake the world in their image for quite some time. 

The World Economic Forum is strangely short on details of how it would all actually work, that’s probably why it’s open to so many conspiracy theories, but while Great Reset is openly talked about, there’s surprisingly little information on specific programs, or how  much money ought to be allocated to what. So at this point, it’s just vague big-picture stuff. For example, they say;

Moreover, governments should implement long-overdue reforms that promote more equitable outcomes. Depending on the country, these may include changes to wealth taxes, the withdrawal of fossil-fuel subsidies, and new rules governing intellectual property, trade, and competition.

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So the solution to the crises caused by governments is; more government intervention —intervention that has nothing to do with the coronavirus. Um…OK.

It’s almost as if governments want to use the coronavirus as an excuse to do the things they had been planning to do anyway, but couldn’t ram through. So obviously, the kind of conservative folks who want small government, low taxes, and property rights, are not too happy about that agenda. They don’t want a small group of elites at the World Economic Forum rewriting the rules of the economy, or giving governments an excuse to become more powerful, with more control over the economy.

But it’s more than that. The  World Economic Forum says “We must build entirely new foundations for our economic and social systems.” They don’t explain what that means, which has led some people to compare it to The Communist Manifesto, because it sounds a lot like the “forcible  overthrow of all existing social conditions”.

But while the WEF’s promises of a great reset may sound like a communist love fest — the far-left is not going to love it either. I’ll explain why; the WEF is proposing a Great Reset, one that promises more “equity” and “inclusion” – it may be pandering to the political left, but keep in mind that the main groups that have been protesting the WEF for decades have been on the far-left, from fiery climate activists, to anti-globalists, to straight-up communists. Folks on the left typically don’t like a small group of rich capitalists at the World Economic Forum dictating policy for the rest of us. Rich capitalists like Prince Charles from the British monarchy, Larry Fink from Black Rock multinational investment company, and George Soros, the guy from all the conspiracy theories.

So really, the Great Reset is something ordinary people on the left and right see as a potential  problem: A small group of rich, powerful elites influencing governments to change the rules of the economy, and while the World Economic Forum has been short on details, here’s an example of what the world could look like after a Great Reset, from an article published by the WEF four years ago;

It imagines life in the year 2030, where everything is digitized, and everyone has free, unlimited access to clean energy somehow; “I don’t own anything. I don’t own a car. I don’t own a house. I  don’t own any appliances or any clothes“. Um…that sounds like abject poverty.

The article is suggesting that  you “don’t need” to own anything, because you can just get everything for free as a service; “We have access to transportation, accommodation, food and all the things we need in our daily  lives. One by one all these things became free, so it ended up not making sense for us to own much.”

If that sounds like a beautiful utopia to you, think about it in a historical context. Remember past governments that promised free stuff? In China, Mao Zedong promised “land to the tillers”. But as soon as he rose to power he ended up killing the landlords and forcing people to work on collective farms and soon millions of people starved to death. Well, except for the wealthy elite. In Venezuela, Hugo Chavez promised to eradicate poverty, but within two decades he had turned a nation that was unequal but prosperous into a nation where everyone was  equal…equally poor and can barely afford food. Well, except for the wealthy elite.

Governments that promised equality and free stuff have always ended up taking away people’s money and property rights. From the  Soviet Union, to Cuba, to Zaire.

Wait, but how about the Nordic countries that are touted as great models of socialism? The  secret is…they’re not socialist. The Nordic countries all made free market reforms in the late 20th century because their economies were crashing under the weight of big government. Now, they all have free markets, private business, and ensure strong property rights. And let’s look at Norway, which has the highest GDP per capita. Their secret to economic success? It starts with massive oil extraction;

And then then they invest oil money in stock markets in other countries. So basically, Norway pays for its big social programs through oil and capitalism, and not through green energy and equity.

So back at the World Economic Forum. When they talk about so-called “equity”, and when they talk about a “Green Recovery” (keep in mind, this is being said by a small group of elite billionaires, who are flying to their meeting in Davos on thousands of gas-guzzling private jets), when they talk about a Great Reset, do you think they really want equality for everyone?

Seriously, who on earth would people put their hopes for a greener and more equitable world in the hands of governments and the wealthy elite? Do you think that will benefit everyone? Or do you think it’ll benefit the governments and the wealthy elite?

Sure, they still haven’t given us any  details on what The Great Reset actually is, but I know one thing: It if happens, the rest of us are not going to like it.

But the real question is, will it actually happen? Are governments and multinational corporations actually pushing for a Great Reset? Or is it just inspirational/terrifying marketing speak for people who go to the World Economic Forum to feel good? After all, the WEF has been using similar language to “the Great Reset” for years. The World Economic Forum’s rhetoric sounds great, but it says nothing. But that’s probably the best case scenario. 

In his book titled, COVID-19: The Great Reset [PDF], published July 2020, World Economic Forum globalist Klaus Schwab claims that the effects of the initial stimulus efforts by governments to keep both individuals and business afloat in the aftermath of the unprecedented lockdowns would create a scenario where the public would keep elected officials under “fierce and relentless” pressure to continue the schemes of UBI well into the future.

Sky News Australia host Rowan Dean has come under attack for reporting on the World Economic Forum’s globalist Great Reset agenda, with mainstream media hit pieces claiming that Dean is spouting ‘conspiracy theories’. But as he points out in this latest segment, the conspiracy has been advertised in full view, on the WEF’s own website for the last year.

“I have only ever repeated the words of Klaus Schwab at the World Economic Forum, the words of Prince Charles, the words of the head of the United Nations Guterres and many other very powerful and influential individuals who insist we must go straight from COVID lockdowns to climate lockdowns.”

R. Dean, Sky News Australia
Klaus Schwab – Head of World Economic Forum (WEF)