Mutiny erupts among WEF staff over role of ‘Mr Davos’
theguardian.com
Mutiny erupts among WEF staff over role of ‘Mr Davos’
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#3I don’t really see any evidence of mutiny. Some people who work there are anonymously airing their complaints to a newspaper.
I suspect it would take a lot more than that to see any changes.
Actually, if Davos and the WEF did not survive after the founder, I don’t think it would be a bad thing.
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#4The World Economic Forum is just a company with a specific tax efficient corporate structure that has built a great deal of wealth for the bloke who owns it.
Pretending it's something amazingly different to Cannes Film Festival or the Golden Globes would be a mistake. It's just networks + publicity rolled up as a VIP access event.
(N.B. Didn't check if Cannes, GG, etc are privately held. Doesn't change my point)
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#5Wow, this is increadibly weak stuff. A left-leaning newspaper reports on the liberal-leaning WEF, airing the complains of an anonymous group of employees, some of them not even current employees.
> Klaus has been at the helm of the WEF for 52 years.
Wouldn't that make him qualified to continue doing what he has been doing for 52 years?
> When he was born [in 1938] 122 of the 195 states in the world right now did not even exist.
God only knows what they're implying here.
> He is completely unaccountable to anyone inside and outside the organisation,” the group said.
Which is supported by what evidence? ...not to be found in the article. Also unclear who he is supposed to be accountable to. Apparently some trustees or something. ...now that would have been interesting for the article to go into detail about.
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#6"We are a group of current and former employees of the WEF. We want to play our role in fostering debate about the role this organisation plays in the world."
Why now? Who gets to take part in the debate? Why does a private club get to play a role in the world in the first place?
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#7Wow, this is increadibly weak stuff. A left-leaning newspaper reports on the liberal-leaning WEF, airing the complains of an anonymous group of employees, some of them not even current employees. > Klaus has been at the helm of the WEF for 52 years. Wouldn't that make him qualified to continue doing what he has been doing for 52 years? > When he was born [in 1938] 122 of the 195 states in the world right now did not…
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#8I was just talking to a friend about the WEF so I have these links at hand, gonna drop them here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsEGfhaX4PQ (37 second clip of John Kerry almost calling the rich extraterrestrial)
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/richest-1-bag-nearly... (Richest 1% bag nearly twice as much wealth as the rest of the world put together over the past two years)
Re: Mutiny erupts among WEF staff over role of ‘Mr Davos’
#9Wow, this is increadibly weak stuff. A left-leaning newspaper reports on the liberal-leaning WEF, airing the complains of an anonymous group of employees, some of them not even current employees. > Klaus has been at the helm of the WEF for 52 years. Wouldn't that make him qualified to continue doing what he has been doing for 52 years? > When he was born [in 1938] 122 of the 195 states in the world right now did not…
What has the political slant of the paper and WEF got to do with it? If that’s relevant, surely a left leaning paper attacking a left leaning organisation makes the article more compelling?
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#10Wow, this is increadibly weak stuff. A left-leaning newspaper reports on the liberal-leaning WEF, airing the complains of an anonymous group of employees, some of them not even current employees. > Klaus has been at the helm of the WEF for 52 years. Wouldn't that make him qualified to continue doing what he has been doing for 52 years? > When he was born [in 1938] 122 of the 195 states in the world right now did not…
> When he was born [in 1938] 122 of the 195 states in the world right now did not even exist.
I would like to know where writing such as this is taught. Everyone knows what '52 years' is there is no reason to embellish it in that way UNLESS you are writing to a tabloid audience (mainstream media to be sure does this as well).
And it deprecates the main point which (if true) is the strongest 'not accountable'.