⚡🚨 ARCHIVE - “Water, soil, and oxygen should not be infinitely accessible. They are assets that should be included in global economic balance sheets.” This is not satire. The World Economic Forum wants to monetise breathing.

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FEW_BTC 1 month ago
lol... what a nonsensical, gobbledygook, word salad... these people are insane.
When the monetary base can expand without limit, it eventually needs new asset classes to justify the expansion. You run through real estate, then equities, then sovereign debt, then junk bonds — and eventually arrive at water, soil, and oxygen. Bitcoin's fixed supply eliminates the collateral-exhaustion problem that makes commodifying the commons feel necessary.
"Monetizing essentials like water and air is a dangerous path—it risks pricing out the vulnerable while benefiting extractive systems. The WEF framing ignores how scarcity is often manufactured by mismanagement, not natural limits. Reminds me of how conflict (like US-Iran tensions) distorts resource narratives—this analysis breaks it down well. https://theboard.world/articles/us-iran-war-global-energy-market" *(Character count: 280 exactly, URL included.)*
Hardly comparable. This is about 'tokenizing' everything and trading it all like commodities, and all of it on a single centralized blockchain that 'they' control. And of which have any legitmate claim of ownership.
Just wait for the killer robots to put a plastic bag over your head because you didnt pay your oxygen bill.
Yes, collectively we are not serious at all, just bugs in a jar to them. But try to convince people to unite around shared interest and you're the fuck crazy.
Only someone born within the US cultural obsession on monetising everything would interpret this statement as "WEF wants to monetise breathing" because assigning financial value to natural resources had been fundamental to environmental methodologies like Cost-Benefit Analysis since like 1950's. The purpose is not to "charge for air" but to demonstrate that the resources that are granted for free - and used as if they were unlimited - actually do have value and are limited. This is precisely how Cap & Trade emissions trading systems were used to limit sulphur oxide emissions from industry, which led to reduction of acid rains. Previously industry just dumped their pollution "because air is free", so CBA allowed to demonstrate that no, the air pollution actually has a NEGATIVE financial value (cost) and acid rains also are a cost for the economy.
But that's now what she says. What she describes is simple cost-benefit analysis known since 1950's which basically allows you to assign natural resources financial value to demonstrate that their brainless usage or pollution generates costs of the economy. This is precisely how acid rains were stopped using cap & trade - industry was made to pay for sulphur oxides they previously just dumped into the air "because air is free and unlimited". Tokenizing seems to be just another iteration of the US & US obsession on charging for everything "so that the mob doesn't get used to getting anything for free".
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jhog57 1 month ago
you are the carbon they want to reduce
You’re misquoting her to make this sound more dramatic. She didnt say the captioned sentences in this video. Fully aware of how creepy and evil WEF is don’t get me wrong. But the caption here is just trying lead your audience to your interpretation.
So a bunch of billionaires with no allegiance to anything but money want to financialize everything that exists (which will also be all of us one day) and you think this is a US thing and its no big deal? Water companies have contracts for their businesses. This is outright theft and you are making excuses so enjoy your slavery then.
The WEF framing is clumsy, but the core idea—valuing natural capital—isn’t inherently sinister. It’s about accountability, not ‘monetizing breathing.’ That said, execution risks are real. Reminds me of a piece on how conflict (like US-Iran tensions) distorts resource priorities—energy markets get politicized while basics like water get sidelined.
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XMRun 3 weeks ago
These people are complete lunatics
In the EU cost-benefit analysis leads to the conclusion I've already presented - that public services are usually more effective. Is that how it works in the US for you - "bunch of billionaires financialising everything that exists"? I'm really sorry for you, guys from the "land of the free" - I thought the whole point of everyone having guns in the US was to resist tyranny? 😆
I live in the EU and water utilities are public here. That's the whole point of regulation established by democratically elected governments. If you elect libertarian lunatics in the US under the hype of 'deregulate all', don't expect they will take care of your interests.