Neo-Collectivism is supposed to be macrotrends of the future, with young people embracing socialism - but the actual megatrend - decentralization, isn't collectivist or socialist at all.
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“Two-thirds of young people would like to live under an explicitly socialist economic system”
Not long ago
we looked at The Future Laboratory’s report on travel that predicted
carbon passports and limits on personal CO2 emissions as a way to mitigate climate change.
The back of the napkin math from our look at that report, was that living standards in G-20 nations would have to drop by 75% in order to bring personal carbon footprints in line with “expert” recommendations (the typical North American pleb emits somewhere between 12 and 13 tonnes of CO2 per year – to meet those netzero objectives, set by unelected, globalist technocrats, we need to ratchet that down to 2.3 tonnes per year).
In the course of breaking that down I came across another report, also authored by Future Labs (whom I described then, as coming across as a WEF-wannabe). That was on the coming “macrotrend” of
Neo-Collectivism. At the time I plunked down
£265.00 to buy the report, promising to write it up in an upcoming piece.
Here it is:
There are five core themes running through 40-page, high-gloss PDF:
- Climate disaster is imminent.
- Democracy and capitalism in their current state aren’t working.
- Individualism is on the way out.
- “Web3” is a driving force of decentralization, (but it is being co-opted by capitalism).
- Young people increasingly see collectivism, if not outright socialism as the solution.
Like everything The Future Laboratory emits, there’s a lot of word salad:
“a new model has the potential to reroute power from organisations: Web3. In this digital laboratory, decentralisation reigns: citizens become squads, profits are dispersed and community is king.
It represents a fresh start, an Alternet Economy that allows us to imagine how systems rooted in consensus, equity and care can be reproduced in offline societies too. How, for example, could cities, wealth and even entire organisations be shaped by solidarity?”
The report promises that,
“These practical strategies will guide your brand through the shift from individualism to collectivism“
However, when you peel back the veneer of equity, social justice and “deeper meaning” that are supposed to supplant the crass, destructive impulses like capitalism and free exchange, the trends highlighted as “re-imaginings” of work, organization and ownership, turn out to be… somewhat capitalist and free enterprise-y.
And that’s a problem.
Who gets to decide what you do? You or somebody else?
Decentralization is about the core, fundamental human right:
choice – and choice is all about
individualism.
Collectivism, under whatever name you want to call it
abolishes choice.
The easiest way to tell the difference is to ask yourself “Who gets to decide what
you do (or
don’t do)? You? Or somebody else?”
Decide what? Your travel allowance, your meat consumption, your energy usage…
everything.
If it’s somebody else, then
it’s socialism / collectivism. 
dailycaller.com
We pay the bill for everything. Musk is generous man. Maybe he will lone Trump money….
young vs old.
