What is "The Great Reset"?
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Monday, August 4, 2025 21:55
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I've heard about this over the past year, more often in the past month. I've heard it in reference to debt forgiveness ("Jubilee") but also other, more sinister, proposals.
The first person to use "the Great Reset" was Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum (otherwise know as Davos) and it isn't a woo-woo conspiracy theory but actually discussed in the open among the "Davos crowd".
https://www.weforum.org/great-reset
Without further ado, an explanation of The Great Reset and what it means for us. (And, parenthetically an example of "fascism")
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So...
Somebody like me who's lived within their means and hasn't had debt for the last 15 years...
Do I get a huge bonus when everybody else gets all of the shit they didn't need paid for?
Somehow I doubt it very much.
Maybe I'll just run up the $100,000 worth of credit cards I've got if I see that future coming to life. Maybe I'll just buy my next house with credit cards.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Exactly. It will all be taken away from the (former) middle class to pay off the (former) factory workers.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
So...
Somebody like me who's lived within their means and hasn't had debt for the last 15 years...
Do I get a huge bonus when everybody else gets all of the shit they didn't need paid for?
Somehow I doubt it very much.
Maybe I'll just run up the $100,000 worth of credit cards I've got if I see that future coming to life. Maybe I'll just buy my next house with credit cards.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
"Nobody* will own anything, and you will be happy".
*Except the very wealthiest, who will own everything.
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Does nobody see the contradiction in all of that?
If the wealthiest automate everything, why would they want to maintain seven billion plus "useless eaters"? Why go through all the trouble and expense and headache of robbing from some to keep the peace with others, and enforcing a monoculture on everyone so we can all live in perfectly equal squalor? All they REALLY would need would be maybe a few million people to make, staff, repair, and program the machines to make anything they might possibly want, plus a few million or so living human beings as toys, for those who so desire to toy with livig flesh.
All of this twaddle about "caring" about "solving" the world's problems of extreme inequality of wealth (which they caused), global climate change, and all of that, can be more simply solved (from the POV of the extremely wealthy) by simply getting rid of a whole bunch of people.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
#WEARAMASK
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Lest anyone imagine that I'm taking Justin Trudeau out of context, here is his speech about the great opportunities "we" are presented with bc of Covid-19.
Also, some interpretation of his doublespeak.
0:40 "To mobilize finance for the response and the recovery"
i.e. to backstop the central banks with more government money so they could continue to make loans and call them "assets"
0:40-0;60 "Finance ministers met to discuss the most promising proposals ... IMF... World Bank... leader summits"
But YOU aren't included in these discussions
1:40 "Canada will provide $400 million..."
To big pharma. Nowhere did I hear that big pharma was going to sacrifice anything in this "fight against Covid". Because "We're all in this together"... except some who are suffering and some who're making out like bandits
2:05 "Strong coordinated response across the world and across sectors.."
Because who WOULD'T welcome a world-straddling technocracy to "solve" all of our problems?
2:25 "investing more in international development..."
Yep, let's put those poor countries even more in debt than they are now!
2:43 "...trusted partners..."
Politically-aligned NGOs, friendly tyrants, and corporations
2:55 "Debt service suspension initiative"
Because which banks want to suddenly have to declare a bunch of NPLs? (non-performing loans)
This Great Reset is going to turn out like Obama's historic moment when many banks teetered on collapse, threatening to take down the insurances like AIG with them: Lots of money for banks, none for people.
It will turn out like the CARES Act: 80% going to large corporations, nothing for Main Street.
If the wealthy elite REALLY want to solve the world's problems, they would dissolve their system and then themselves, and let the world get on without their constant parasitism and interference. Instead, they'll springboard Covid-19 as an excuse to take even more control
Never let a good crisis go to waste"- Rahm Emmanuel, Obama's advisor
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
#WEARAMASK
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Thanks for posting all this, Signy. As always, it's real world facts, in full and in context, that not only won't be bannered across CNN or the NYTimes, but won't be covered by them at all.
It's a fresh wind in the suffocating propagandistic miasma.
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
If the wealthy elite REALLY want to solve the world's problems, they would dissolve their system and then themselves, and let the world get on without their constant parasitism and interference. Instead, they'll springboard Covid-19 as an excuse to take even more control
Never let a good crisis go to waste"- Rahm Emmanuel, Obama's advisor
Like Kiki said. All very eye opening.
I'm wondering now if you're starting to think that the crisis itself was manufactured in the first place. Make it look like it was about Trump, but then after Trump is out of the way make it dominate the headlines once again and hear about shutdowns all over coming back in style.
PA just passed a law mandating that everyone in your own house must wear masks if anybody is in your house that isn't a resident said house.
How do you enforce that? Military?
EDITED TO ADD:
Oh... and CNN did the literally unthinkable the other day and gave Trump credit for the Covid vaccine.
Seriously... WTF? Four years and not a single nice thing to say about Trump, but they're going to give him THAT one?
I'd be seriously hesitant to be one of the first people taking that shot if I were you. I wasn't going to take it regardless, but CNN praising Trump for this should give anybody in their right minds pause after their behavior for the last 4 years.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Thanks for posting all this, Signy. As always, it's real world facts, in full and in context, that not only won't be bannered across CNN or the NYTimes, but won't be covered by them at all.
It's a fresh wind in the suffocating propagandistic miasma.
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As a personal reaction to Justine Trudeau (yes, I misspelled his name on purpose) the guy is an amoral, insufferable virtue-signaller who dressed up his little boy in girl's clothes to support ... whatever... but was so clueless "back then" that he was picured in blackface - not once, but twice, and had an affair with student. You can't make this shit up.
Every time I see him speak he reminds me of a little boy who got into his dad's clothes and is only too proud when the adults let him prattle on. He's like Greta Thunberg: He really thinks that they're listening to him!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
#WEARAMASK
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Anyway, SIX, I think the question for the Davos crowd is: How do you disposses the remaining few who actually have net assets (i.e real property, money in the bank, a paid-for car)?
Do you recall over the past two years or so in a lot of those pop-up articles they kept pushing the "It's not purchasing 'stuff' that makes you happy, it's purchasing experiences"?
So, yanno, blow your money on something ephemeral, like a cruise (heh) or fine restaurants or taking your kids to Disneyworld/land/themepark because you will make beautiful memories that will last forever (or as long as your memory does, which- according to psychologists- starts degrading and morphing the first time you access it).
I sometimes wonder if that was a first wedge in the move to disposses "people" from "things"?
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Anyway. It would have to be something that can be applied worldwide. The Great Recession was one such event. In the run-up to the financial meltdown, MANY people ... not just in the USA but elsewhere ... took what little money they had, went into hock waaaaaay over their heads to buy a house, then when real estate values came crashing down Obama, Gordon Brown (England), and The EU Troika bailed out the banks, but imposed austerity on people. That was a ginormous transfer of wealth right across the western financial system.
That was when "they" came up with the brilliant procedure called "bail in": If a bank fails, it takes your money (which, in their eyes, is NOT your money, but an unsecured loan to the bank) and exchange it for stocks of unknown value so the bank can recapitalize itself.
Covid-19 is another great move to disposses people: rob them of their jobs, force them to use up what little savings they have and make them depedent on "the dole".
But there will still be those reistent nuggets who've managed to hang onto SOMEthing... a home, a car, savings... maybe even all three.
Well, I suppose there can always be reparations or UBI or something like, based on taxes that the "little people" can't escape (but the "big people" and corporations always can). So ... taxes.
Or someone could pass a law ... you aren't supposed to hae more than so many square feet per person, so there could be another tax to "level the playing field". Again, taxes.
Inflation is a great way to whittle away peope's savings.
But BANK FAILURE .... now THERE'S a stroke of genius! "They" get to xfer wealth right then and there!
I suspect ... no, I KNOW ... many banks are hanging onto NPLs right now, but not declaring them, because so many credit card, personal, home, car, and small business loans aren't being paid back. (Not to worry, The Fed has been backstopping big corporate bonds and bond-holders for months now,)
It says something when you're on hold with your credit union for over an hour while they remind you over and over again that "they're for you in these difficult times" because thousands of people must be trying to arrange some sort of repayment extension, and the credit union is doing its level best to accomodate them.
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Also the fact that Boris Johnson has been sidelined at a crucial time in Brexit talks at the same time that Trump has apparently lost the vote ... well, there are no coincidences in politics. All is connected, and MI6 has been playing a huge role in RUSSIA!TRUMP! ever since whenever.
Populism and nationalism must be smashed at all costs, right?
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I need to give this more thought, tho. Right now, I'm just spitballing ideas.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
#WEARAMASK
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I think the Davos 'geniuses' who think they can live in modern luxury with just a few people on the planet are in for a rude awakening.
Let's look at ... computers. Those are the things that at the very least will be needed to run the machines that do the manufacturing. Computer manufacturing, maintenance, and repair need steel, and rare earth metals, and micro (if not nano) technology for the chips. For that you need significant mining, refining to spec, and globe-spanning transport, at the least. (That's not to mention a high degree of materials science, global standards, and exquisitely specialized technology, but let's leave that aside for now.) So you need that technology - for global mining, refining to spec, and transport - as well as the large-scale energy needed for them. You need to gather the materials together for manufacture. So for transport across the pacific you need conveyance (ship or plane) that itself needs high-technology manufacturing, maintenance and repair. Not only that, but it needs to be large scale to be sure to cross the Pacific. Well, I suppose you can get by with 2 shipyards (on either side of the Pacific) and/ or 2 aircraft mfgs. So you have to have enough people to run shipyards for example. And if you're down to a skeleton fleet, you want those conveyances to be sure to get where they're going. So you need weather info, communications, and navigation ... by satellite perhaps. And you need the facilities on both sides to load and launch those conveyances and dock and unload them.
And so on.
And that's just a minuscule portion of the infrastructure needed for just computers.
But all that's assuming that those overlords would be content to just have and keep more than enough 'stuff' for a million to a billion lifetimes. But if far more than enough is what you need to be satisfied, why assume that anyone would stay satisfied with that? Why not think that the person with enough 'stuff' for a million lifetimes would be in competition with someone else with enough 'stuff' for a million lifetimes, to get enough 'stuff' for 2 million lifetimes?
Or that medical care that assures a 130 year lifespan wouldn't become too paltry and those people wouldn't want a 260 year lifespan ... or a thousand?
But for that you'd need new technology. And for THAT you'd need geniuses.
Now, we haven't figured out what genes/ environments make for a genius - yet. So anyone looking for new technology will need to get it the old-fashioned way. And that's by have a very large population so you can harvest the end of that bell curve.
And you won't help yourself by having that population living in squalor, since brain and intellectual development will be severely stunted, so you need to raise and educate those people-critters enough to get to the point of being able to identify your target people-critters who might be useful to you.
I'm not saying the de-populated heaven for the rich isn't what the Davos crowd is thinking, or that it's not going to happen. I'm just saying that it's not going to go the way they planned. Because ... well ... they're not geniuses, or even that smart. They're just ordinary people with limited brains and unexamined human impulses, with highly-conditioned (and so, limited) thinking that being rich means you can have everything you want ... who happen to be rich and powerful.
And, as anyone knows who's actually done things with their own 2 hands, reality is a stubborn thing. It doesn't yield to the magic wand of money. It only yields to hands connected to brains working toward goals; with feedback; so that there can be thinking and adapting along the way.
In any case, for global systems you'd need to maintain a system at scientific/ industrial levels you're comfortable with. I'd put that at the 1950's, maybe earlier if more of your global human stock is maintained at good enough levels to suit your needs
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