New York Times journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, on a panel at the World Economic Forum, completely openly explained how the global oligarchy will travel in the near future, and how poor citizens will travel, thus letting us know what they have in store for us.
American journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin openly announced the widening gap between rich and poor at the World Economic Forum in 2022, during a panel titled “Shaping Our Shared Future: Creating the Metaverse.” This discussion went under the radar as far as the media was concerned, and no one saw anything controversial about it. However, it is very important to remember that ominous announcement by Andrew Ross Sorkin.
Namely, we are openly told that in the future, rich people will be able to travel the world, because they will have enough funds to do so, while poor people will also be able to travel the world, but in a completely different way – only from their couches via the metaverse, putting on those all-powerful glasses and headphones for a complete experience, through which they will visit world destinations.
Poor people, therefore, should, if the WEF is to be judged, be well-equipped with technological equipment for their future travels, while the rich can continue to pack their suitcases, filling them with branded rags, so that they can enjoy the world we live in firsthand. The rich will have the world in the palm of their hands in a literal sense, for them it will be real and tangible, while poor people will be offered only a simulation of the world we live in. The world will also be ‘in the palm of their hands’, but only via a mobile phone or tablet, or the metaverse. Beautiful, isn’t it?
Listening to Andrew Ross Sorkin talk excitedly about virtual reality and real-world simulation as something completely acceptable, as if it were some consolation prize or a substitute medicine for a poor world that we, as mere mortals versus superhumans, should be content with, and while emphasizing how poor people will be able to visit the same destinations as the rich, but only from their couches, it comes across as if he is somehow mocking poor people.
We should know that material wealth as such has grown on completely false and very shaky foundations, that is, on the tears and sweat of the poorer social classes, and there can be no happiness there, no matter which world destination the rich visit at the expense of the disenfranchised, robbed, and deceived masses who, without even knowing it, pay for it all, because they fall for their tricks and persistently fall into their traps again and again.
Because of all the beggars in the world, the biggest beggars are the rich who lure us into buying their products or voting for them for political office. We are the ones who give them power and the ability to travel and enjoy life, because without us buying their products and without our votes, they would have to visit world destinations from their couches, if they even had a roof over their heads.
Remember, we are the ones who decide the fate of the world. Every day we make a series of decisions and when we stop dancing to the tune of the powerful, when we refuse to obey them, which they certainly count on, everything will change in an instant. Every individual can do something to change the world for the better, every single one of us, only each of us has to realize our power and changes become possible in an instant. We are the ones who decide and if we don’t like the world we live in with all its crazy rules then we have to change it from the ground up.
The conclusion that Andrew Ross Sorkin draws from this story, namely – that the gap between rich and poor will only get wider in the future – is hypocritical to say the least, because the gap is already huge. Tell us something we didn’t know…
Many people have long been unable to make ends meet, let alone visit world destinations, while the rich are taking pictures of themselves in popular destinations and posting their photos on social media to cause outrage among the poorer population, who can only dream of such trips.
It is no wonder that many young people from poor families who are unstable and not resistant to the destructive influence of social networks, or the virtual world into which they are sucked in like a vacuum cleaner and in which they literally reside 24 hours a day, end up in psychiatric hospitals, because the pressure of social networks on them is too strong and excessive. Already today, many people travel only with their thumbs, scrolling on their mobile phones and can only dream of some distant exotic places. And, not only distant ones, they can only dream of our sea and mountains, for which a considerable amount of money must also be set aside that people simply do not have today.
A wealthy caste of people has enabled themselves to live in the real, tangible world. To them, smartphones are merely a means of showing themselves to us while we naively reside in the prison cells of the virtual world, unwilling to admit to ourselves that we are actually trapped behind invisible bars and that it is only through our thumbs sliding across the screens of our phones that we have ‘the world in the palm of our hands’.
The World Economic Forum has envisioned this world as a paradise for the rich oligarchy on the one hand and a hell for the poor on the other. No one ever elected them, and let’s not allow them to sit back and talk about the future they have designed for themselves at the expense of the rest of us.
Let’s remember sometimes that this same world that is casually discussed every year at the WEF should be equally accessible to all people in the world, and not some journalist fantasizing about the metaverse as the only solution for experiencing the world for those who cannot afford to swim in a real sea, ski down a real snowy slope, and be warmed by a real ray of sunshine.
