Best-and-Brightest far and wide offered a collectivist gasp when Argentina, a long-reliably socialist nation, elected someone not of their own as its president.
First, thanks for making this so readily available. Unfortunate Milei could not or did not use the more universally understood English, and that he chose simply to read his remarks rather than orate them, with pauses here and there for effect and to elicit reaction from his audience. What might we have heard? Applause? Shock? Anger? Disapproval? Might some have risen to their feet and walked out? Also, an illuminated room with cameras panning back and forth between the speaker and his audience would have been interesting. I admittedly spend no time educating myself about the goings-on in Davos, so I'm left to wonder are there reportings of comments and/or reactions to these remarks by those in attendance?
I haven't a clue as to what they'd be about during such a speech, but I wouldn't be surprised in the least if most of them buried their heads in their phones and ignored it.
"Quaintly, in that these supposed titans of economic knowledge are increasingly proving to be a bunch of detached and delusional dilettantes with dictatorial impulses and not the slightest whit of care as to the harm their ideas would impose on the world's unwashed masses."
At the risk of appearing to be a suck up, this is a brilliant summation of the WEF and indictment of the best and the brightest. Still working on my WEF acronym meaning. I'm a plebe so you'll have to forgive me.
Hmm. I qualify as both an elite and an ILG (at least until I retire), and a lot of my co-workers and friends also qualify as elites (and a few as fellow ILGs), and I can't verify any of the statistics quoted in the article, because I know no more than a handful of people who share these silly beliefs (except for the one economic question on personal finances). I'm not naive enough to think that just because people I know don't feel this way means the statistics are wrong ("Pauline Kael Syndrome"!), but it does force me to take them with a grain of salt.
The surveys do show a significant minority that do not hold those silly beliefs. One question is - how much sway does that minority have over its silly compatriots?
Also, don't discount self-selection in your peer group.
You hit it out of the park!
Milei was invited, so perhaps there's a glimmer of hope there?
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First, thanks for making this so readily available. Unfortunate Milei could not or did not use the more universally understood English, and that he chose simply to read his remarks rather than orate them, with pauses here and there for effect and to elicit reaction from his audience. What might we have heard? Applause? Shock? Anger? Disapproval? Might some have risen to their feet and walked out? Also, an illuminated room with cameras panning back and forth between the speaker and his audience would have been interesting. I admittedly spend no time educating myself about the goings-on in Davos, so I'm left to wonder are there reportings of comments and/or reactions to these remarks by those in attendance?
I haven't a clue as to what they'd be about during such a speech, but I wouldn't be surprised in the least if most of them buried their heads in their phones and ignored it.
"Quaintly, in that these supposed titans of economic knowledge are increasingly proving to be a bunch of detached and delusional dilettantes with dictatorial impulses and not the slightest whit of care as to the harm their ideas would impose on the world's unwashed masses."
At the risk of appearing to be a suck up, this is a brilliant summation of the WEF and indictment of the best and the brightest. Still working on my WEF acronym meaning. I'm a plebe so you'll have to forgive me.
Hmm. I qualify as both an elite and an ILG (at least until I retire), and a lot of my co-workers and friends also qualify as elites (and a few as fellow ILGs), and I can't verify any of the statistics quoted in the article, because I know no more than a handful of people who share these silly beliefs (except for the one economic question on personal finances). I'm not naive enough to think that just because people I know don't feel this way means the statistics are wrong ("Pauline Kael Syndrome"!), but it does force me to take them with a grain of salt.
The surveys do show a significant minority that do not hold those silly beliefs. One question is - how much sway does that minority have over its silly compatriots?
Also, don't discount self-selection in your peer group.