Does anybody NOT know the old children’s story of Robin Hood? You know the one where the Sheriff of Nottingham goes around collecting excessive taxes in the land for the king? The taxes bankrupt everybody until a swashbuckling brave young man and his band of followers who goes by the name of Robin Hood comes along and stages several schemes and raids to *steal* back the tax money from the Sheriff. The sheriff plays to Robin Hood’s sense of ego and stages an archery competition to trap Robin Hood, etc, etc, etc…… In our favorite fable the hero is the *criminal* who *steals* from the government to give the money back to the poor people of Nottingham. It’s a great fable!
Our nation is moving to an inverse Robin Hood reality versus a great fable. Back during election season at the World Economic forum, Klaus Martin Schwab, who is a German engineer and economist best known as the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum laid out an 8-point plan for the future. One of his talking points was “You will own nothing, and you will be happy”. He was talking about a diverse plan to divest America and the world of private property. To explain, think of Uber. You need a ride from home to work, so you schedule an Uber ride. A car arrives, you get in, and it drops you off at your office building. You don’t pay for tires, or oil changes, or car payments, or insurance, or repairs, drivers education fees, driver’s licensing fees, or parking fees, etc….. You just use “transportation as a service” to meet your immediate needs. The long term plan is to convince the world to use everything “as a service”. Communications, housing, transportation, etc, etc, etc…. You will own nothing, and you will be happy! Who WILL own all the assets and infrastructure? Here is the Robin Hood reversed angle. Massive corporations and government and wealthy elites will, that’s who!
A great deal of personal wealth is indeed held in physical assets. If you own a home or a rental property, or a commercial building or industrial equipment of some sort, you own a valuable commodity. Some assets depreciate and devalue over time, but even if their monetary value declines, their practical value remains. A car is an example of this. A car rapidly depreciates over time, so it’s retail sale value declines. But……. It’s practical value to YOU remains. Sure your 5 year old car is no longer as attractive as a new sleek tech-filled up to date driving machine is, hence your car’s value is considerably less. But your 5 year old car is in good mechanical order and drives very nicely. SOOOOO It has REAL value to you because it is paid off and gets you around any day all day. And in a crisis, you can sell it to get some quick cash, even if it is a reduced retail monetary value. And let’s be honest about assets like cars. A lot of their monetary value is in the hype of being the newest and coolest and up to date. Us humans sometimes treat items like this like we do fashion accessories. We want the newest styles, shapes, tech, etc…. So the value of an item is not tied to it’s practical value as much as our own vanity and egos.
I got distracted there for a minute, but I had to make a point. Private property HAS value! Our physical assets attribute to our personal wealth long term. Robin Hood came along to give your money back. Oligarchs (wealthy elites), governments and corporations want to convert us over to “as a service” societies. We need to resist the urge to allow ourselves to hand over a massive part of our wealth to these wealthy or political forces. We would be telling Robin Hood “no thanks, I trust the king(s) with my coins”. Do not fall for the “as a service” product offerings when it comes to certain types of property. Now don’t get me wrong, I would rather have streaming videos or music available then to have boxes full of DVD’s or CD’s (or even computer drives full of this stuff). But there is a line! Don’t voluntarily hand over your coins to the Sheriff of Nottingham.
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We’re almost regressing to a feudal society. The serfs or peasants did not own all that much either and had to work for the taxes to pay for the land they lived on.
I suppose many people with school age kids are not old enough themselves to really remember the failures of communism and are ill equipped to teach their children; they were victims of the same school systems that are brainwashing their kids now.
The lack of foresight and living in the now is what makes debt and the belief people won’t be able to own things possible. Then again we hardly do own our houses at least. Stop paying taxes and you’ll stop renting your property from the government.
Good analogy and analysis, Mark. What worries me is that Millennials believe that they won’t ever own anything anyway, and will eagerly latch onto the concept of Schwab’s WEF. Part of Schwab’s evil is pushing destructive economic policies (and so much more) that will guarantee Millennials and those after them will not have the means to afford ownership of physical assets. Brilliant as evil often is. Seductive. Preys on the human propensity for envy and sloth. UBI and non-ownership will appeal to them.
Our young have been indoctrinated with the lies that Socialism will work if it’s just done right this time. They’ve been coddled and protected to the point of believing the authoritarian dogma they’ve been soaked in since grade school. Many parents do a poor job of counterbalancing the indoctrination with historical facts and conversations about why Communism will never work. Parents want to be friends with their offspring, rather than guiding, directing, educating and being examples of responsible adults. That’s hard. Being up on the latest TikTok craze is much easier and doing for them is less stress than teaching them to do for themselves.
Thank you! And a lot of modern services the younger generation uses (ridesharing, streaming etc….) is based on subscription as a service business model. They understand this so they will easily translate it to larger commodity items like housing and other essential products. And slowly they will be eroded away from accumulating savings and wealth.
Yes! And honestly, trying to talk to young people about this automatically slots you in the “old fogey” category: “Come on, Gramma, owning stuff is old fashioned and anyway, it’s something I’ll never afford, so at least this way I can have what I want when I want it all on the fly. Ezy-peezy, Gramma Sleezy. Get with the times!”
If I didn’t know the method behind this madness, I’d be tempted to think Schwab’s NWO Great Reset funded by MMT might have one good point. We are a materialist culture where buying/owning stuff and being in debt to do it is the national past time. Most of these possessions are poorly constructed, cheaply made often with slave or nearly slave labor, disposable and forgettable. Quality and durability meant to last a lifetime is almost as extinct as the dinosaurs. Heirlooms? Don’t make me laugh. But, here’s the thing. I want the choice to refuse to collect more than I need for my level of personal comfort. I buy good quality things like furniture – ha! my furniture is 40 years old, still in good shape, and because I chose traditional designs, nothing looks 40 years out of style. I keep my vehicle until it becomes unreliable or unfixable. Before replacing it I drove my last car 13 years. I buy clothing of classic styling and good enough quality to last a decade or more, and cheap trendy clothes I donate after a season or two. But I don’t want to be forced to not own anything, even if I might make that choice for myself in some areas.
Schwab and his Great Reset dream is nothing short of communism under a different name. Pathological altruism run amok. These Utopians are true believers and that’s why they are so dangerous. In their hearts they want unlimited power and dominion over a world of drones who slog through life doing the grunt work of serving them, while they sit aloft, pretending to be virtuous humanitarians magnanimously doling out crumbs to their slaves. It’s all a hideous ideal where they are the Cloud People and we are the Dirt People.
Sorry for the old fogey rant.
My daily driving car is 21 years old, so…………… 🙂
👍 I treated myself to a luxury vehicle as a reward for having been loyal to my previous car. Used and 2 years old when I purchased it, paid off in under two years – a nicely outfitted Porsche Cayenne, Diesel ha ha, which I have designated in my will to house my ashes in the backseat ashtray as a wry little pun. At the end of my life, I expect it to be in good running condition, bequeathed to be my oldest grand’s first car – that way Grammie will always be with her, backseat driving, ha ha.