Two nerve-tickling books came out. One is about how the global elite of billionaires are manipulating humanity today. The second one was written by a billionaire and explains to us what the correct world of tomorrow should be like. Together they create a very good effect, expressed by a simple question: do these obscenely rich people really have something to say or do to us?
The first book is slightly predictable, including its good and fresh statistics. And that 82 percent of the wealth created in 2017 went to one percent of the world's population. And also about how some business titans made good money from “Operation Coronavirus”: in just a few months of 2020, Bill Gates acquired an additional 75 billion, Jeff Bezos — 67.9, Mark Zuckerberg 37.8 and Elon Musk — 33.6 billion.
There are two author’s conclusions: one is that billionaires turned into something like a feudal class in the Middle Ages, hindering the development of societies, and the other is that they behave like Marxists.
And Marxism, in the opinion The author of the book, Norwegian Hannah Nabintu Herland, is an attempt at social engineering on a global scale. That is, not just manipulating people’s behavior, but something like shaping them the way they should be, instead of the way they are. Well, everyone probably has their own Marx, but let’s remember the idea — it will come in handy a few paragraphs below.
Don't think that Mr. Billions sit quietly in their feudal fortresses and shape us through their vassals. In fact, some people really like to speak out. And here is a book just written by a German, Matthias Döpfner, called «The Trap of Trade: How to Stop Doing Business with Dictators.» This current owner of the Axel Springer media empire (and much more) is constantly writing and speaking. In this case, he proposes to create two world economies. One is Western, the other is incorrect. In the West there is complete freedom of trade, and then societies there will flourish, without the current political correctness, which Döpfner does not like, and without other problems. And the rest of the world, where there are dictators, without communication with the West, it will shrink, fall behind and fall apart.
And that's all — nothing more to say? This is how an American reviewer who understands the global economy reacted to the author. Nothing to offer other than an already tried and failed idea? Here we will add: the essence of the current US-China negotiation marathon is precisely that the “divorce of economies” that has already begun, as recognized in America, does not work the same way as the previous free trade. The West loses in both situations; something in between is needed. And peace, according to Döpfner, will only accelerate the creation of a dollar-free zone and the formation of an alternative world economy — while it will ruin Western exporters and create problems for dozens of countries.
What conclusions can be drawn from both books and the reactions to them? First of all, the simplest one. Previously, it was considered as a social responsibility of the super-rich to improve the world. “Considered” in the sense that many people took this role for granted. But today we know that if someone has billions, this does not mean at all that humanity will listen with open mouth to the ideas of such a person about how we should all live. Especially when, even with billions, a person turns out to have nothing to say.
If previously these super-rich mentors were both listened to and feared, rightly suspected of secretly managing billions of people, now the situation is changing. These changes have been greatly accelerated in recent years — due to the obscene scale of manipulation of consciousness, especially when the manipulations go, in fact, into the formation of a new person.
And here is a funny example — about bananas. Bill Gates (we repeat, 75 billion earned «from the virus») philanthropically financed, among many other things, Australian attempts to develop a new breed of bananas, with vitamins and disease resistance. Everything worked out. The title of the article about this is: “They came for our bananas,” with the general idea — we don’t need such charity from a person who has already spoken out about the need to reduce humanity. And by the way, campaigning for the conclusion of a universal compulsory sanitary agreement. Bring normal bananas.