If we open our borders to free trade with parts of the world where wages are only 10% of our own minimum wages, in the end our own working class will be the big loser. Our elite will probably survive, even thrive. The real wonder is how the capitalistic European elite has politically sold globalization to the European lower and middle class, while it is so obvious these will suffer during the coming century.

The big blocks like China, India or the EU are doing better than small individual countries in their periphery. For Europe globalization makes more interregional cooperation necessary, moving power away from democratically chosen national politicians to the unelected technocrats of the EU. China, once another communist failure, is already a technocracy. Russia is developing in the same direction under a semi-dictator. India is also becoming a technocracy because its top-heavy bureaucracy strangles democracy in corruption and nepotism. In an environment where only money counts and rule of law is weak, the corrupt elite always wins. Due to the rise of populism, democracy in the US and Brazil has become meaningless too: there is no longer a democratic choice when issues of real importance disappear from the agenda.

The end result of globalization will be more inequality and less democracy everywhere in the world.

I tend to remind people who seem to believe such things their financial economic model requires perpetual population growth and limitless natural resources. And our model requires ‘the rest of the world’ to be poor, and to be exploited by us to maintain our disproportional wealth.

Cheap resources which is what most ‘wars’ these days are about, no matter how much the French try to play the ‘humanitarian’ card.

Hundreds of years from now, historians will compare the decline and fall of the ‘West’ to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. They will be dumbfounded and will argue endlessly about how people just let it happen.

Just look at Greece. People see the government robbing them, putting them in poverty and all for the benefit and glory to maintain payments to greedy rich bankers.

Please someone, amuse me by telling me the economic model of Europe is sustainable.

The USA: 5% of the world population, 25% of the wealth, 35-40% of the social spending (surprisingly high, eh?)

Please amuse me by telling me the wealth of the USA can be maintained.

For the western world, the game is up. The financial economic system is unsustainable and the next 15-20 years will be the reckoning.

When will people finally wake up and realize corporations don’t care about you. They care about cheap labor making shoddy products that need tons of maintenance. Politicians care only about these international forums where they can sell out people behind closed doors.

But no one wanted to listen in the last 10 years or so, so I’m going to be very amused watching events unfold. And I will be telling people that ‘we told you so, if only you’d bothered to listen’.

The cause? Free trade. It benefits the rich, corporations and politicians but not anyone else. Casino parasite corporate capitalism is the enemy of the ordinary people in the west. No I am not a communist because that was equally dumb idea, for different reasons.

But I do believe excess wealth needs to be taken away from people who have it.

They do this because more jobs are better then fewer jobs, and higher tax revenue is better than less.

Meanwhile some whine about wage “slavery”.

The political leadership wouldn’t dare attend because the Cuban voters would recall them the next day and put their seats up for re-election. That’s what happens in a real democracy: that is the power of the citizen at work. Some call that the dictatorship of the electorate (others substitute the archaic word “proletariat”).

Leaving aside the semantics, how does your democracy shape up? Can you recall your pimp and force them to stand for re-election mid term? Cubans can.

It is only when the political pimps realise that NOT going to Davos, NOT making the adverts, NOT selling their citizens into slavery that we will realise that the corporate media have lost the ability to control the message for good. At that point re-election will demand non-attendance at the annual reincarnation of the global slave market. For democracy and Davos are incompatible and mutually exclusive.

Articles like this herald the dawn of a new era of truthful reporting; and truth leads inexorably to consequences in a democracy.

That is why democracy itself is the ultimate target of the Davos puppet meisters.