I’m very scared, it feels like the world is about to fall apart. I will also remember a passage that I heard, and which does not seem to be a joke: you will own nothing, and will be happy! And it seems that this is gradually becoming a reality.
What scares you?
For context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You'll_own_nothing_and_be_happy
I share your concerns.
Those worries about that quote mostly circled around in far right antivax communities. Its a warped understanding of the sharing economy, such as Swapfiets. This is a liberal, market driven concept which fits very well with the neoliberal vibes of the WEF, and will thereforee not save the world but is also not reason to lose your shit like a far right idiot.
By way of clarification, my expression of agreement was with OP’s general sentiment (the global poly crisis), not with the WEF quote, which I was just adding context for.
In case of car sharing and public transport, I can get behind the idea.
I’m more worried about not owning your personal data anymore. Today, we have streaming services, gaming platforms and cloud storage. Some people barely even use local storage anymore, every part of their lives is saved only on social media accounts, Google/Apple/Microsoft online drives, exchange servers and government services, no paper records, no local copies.
Their entire digital life is basically out of their own hands and most people don’t even realize it, because that’s just “how it works” until something goes wrong with one of the services or something terrible happens.
100% agreed. There are many things that should be owned collectively, rather than individually. There is no single thing in the world that should be owned by a company like Google, or a billionaire like Musk. These things and people need to be destroyed.