Own nothing, be happy

Wow. That’s some groundbreaking information you laid on us. I’m gonna need some time with this…

I know everyone’s convinced that ‘you’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy’ is a flagship policy of the WEF, but it’s not. It comes from an obscure Danish politician – Ida Auken – who was asked by the WEF to write an essay on what the future MIGHT look like in 2030.

In 2016, Auken published an essay originally titled “Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better”, later retitled “Here’s how life could change in my city by the year 2030”, on the WEF’s official web site. It described life in an unnamed city in which the narrator does not own a car, a house, any appliances, or any clothes, and instead relies on shared services for all of his daily needs. Auken later added an author’s note to the story responding to critics, stating that it is not her “utopia or dream of the future”, and that she intended for the essay to start discussions about technological development.

So it’s not WEF policy. It’s not their intention. It was just a line from a short essay by an obscure danish politician.

With any luck, a locust swarm will hit LA next. Then they can own nothing, be happy, *and* [eat ze bugs.](https://i.ibb.co/vzYQhX1/klaus22.png)