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World Economic Forum Calls for End to “Wasteful” Private Car Ownership – Investment Watch (investmentwatchblog.com)

World Economic Forum Calls for End to “Wasteful” Private Car Ownership
July 23, 2022 9:13 pm by IWB

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has published a paper calling for the end of “wasteful” private car ownership.The WEF argues that communal sharing of cars is the way forward to lessen global demands for precious metals and fossil fuels. The globalist elites say too many people own private vehicles for the planet’s good. Most are barely driven and a universal model that will take consumers “from owning to using” their cars is the way forward.

“The average car or van in England is driven just 4% of the time,” the WEF paper sets out. They argue that people should sell their car and walk or share because “Car sharing platforms such as Getaround and BlueSG have already seized that opportunity to offer vehicles where you pay per hour used.” According to the WEF, the end to private ownership is essential and can be applied from everything from cars to private homes and even city-wide design principles.
 
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Let's see them try to call for a ban on private jets & yachts, or to give up their own cars before they tell the rest of us what we should be doing. Let's see them call for a ban on the rich owning multiple mansions and living lives with obscene levels of consumption. None of that will happen however because they see themselves as entitled to having carbon footprints hundreds of times greater than the average person. Until they personally set the example for the rest of us, I'm not interested in anything they have to say.
 
Dennis Olson

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Dozdoats said:
Most are barely driven and a universal model that will take consumers “from owning to using” their cars is the way forward
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Sounds like the Trabant to me. Remember those?
Dozdoats said:
“The average car or van in England is driven just 4% of the time,” the WEF paper sets out.
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No tiny island country can be a model upon which to base transportation needs. Use the US, China, or India. Bet the numbers skew a bit different.


Bottom line is this: the global elites want us all disarmed, sitting in caves and eating bugs. And liking it. Only the elites will have their luxuries, because of their vast Big Brains.
 
ShadowMan

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They are the Cloud People, we are the Dirt People (by their definition).
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3:03
Star Trek: Cloud Minders

"This is the World Economic Forum's vision - a totally divided society "

Oh and BTW WEF.................................................................:fgr::fgr2::fgr:
 
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SouthernBreeze

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WEF agenda is to have everyone living inside cities where ev's are all that is necessary. Bikes and public transportation will make up the rest. Everyone living in small cubicles, with the elite telling you what to eat and how much.

Then, there are those who will rebel. They will be demoralized, demonized, and ostracized from society, and will have to fend for themselves the best way they can. I will consider myself in good company.
 
sy32478

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Average vehicles are used only 4% of the time b/c of outrageous fuel taxes and the fact that , in average, 33% of the time people are at work and another 33% of the time they are sleeping. So it works out to something closer to12%.
 
Dennis Olson

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SouthernBreeze said:
WEF agenda is to have everyone living inside cities where ev's are all that is necessary. Bikes and public transportation will make up the rest. Everyone living in small cubicles, with the elite telling you what to eat and how much.

Then, there are those who will rebel. They will be demoralized, demonized, and ostracized from society, and will have to fend for themselves the best way they can. I will consider myself in good company.
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Demolition Man
 
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This is the future of car "ownership" the WEF wants. You do not own the car nor the features, you are merely a subscriber

BMW starts selling heated seat subscriptions for $18 a month

The auto industry is racing towards a future full of microtransactions
By James Vincent Jul 12, 2022, 6:45am EDT
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Photo by Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images

BMW is now selling subscriptions for heated seats in a number of countries — the latest example of the company’s adoption of microtransactions for high-end car features.

It’s not clear exactly when BMW started offering this feature as a subscription, or in which countries, but a number of outlets this week reported spotting its launch in South Korea.
BMW has slowly been putting features behind subscriptions since 2020, and heated seats subs are now available in BMW’s digital stores in countries including the UK, Germany, New Zealand, and South Africa. It doesn’t, however, seem to be an option in the US — yet.
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A screenshot of BMW’s UK digital store, with subscriptions for heated seats and engine sounds. Image: BMW

We’ve asked BMW for the exact details of this roll-out, but it was unable to say when the subscriptions had been launched in which countries. It’s no surprise that BMW isn’t trumpeting the news, though. Since the company announced in 2020 that its cars’ operating system would allow for microtransactions on features like automatic high beams and adaptive cruise control, customers have decried the move as greedy and exploitative.
Carmakers have always charged customers more money for high-end features, of course, but the dynamic is very different when software, rather than hardware, is the limiting factor.

CHARGING MORE FOR HIGH-END FEATURES FEELS DIFFERENT WHEN YOU ALREADY OWN THEM

In the case of heated seats, for example, BMW owners already have all the necessary components, but BMW has simply placed a software block on their functionality that buyers then have to pay to remove. For some software features that might lead to ongoing expenses for the carmaker (like automated traffic camera alerts, for example), charging a subscription seems more reasonable. But that’s not an issue for heated seats.

Other features that BMW is locking behind subscriptions (as per the company’s digital UK store) include heated steering wheels, from $12 a month; the option to record footage from your car’s cameras, priced at $235 for “unlimited” use; and the “IconicSounds Sport package,” which lets you play engine sounds in your car for a one-time fee of $117.
In the latter case, BMW notes that “the hardware for this feature has already been installed in your vehicle during production, at no extra cost.” How generous.

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BMW starts selling heated seat subscriptions for $18 a month

Now being sold in South Korea, the UK, and elsewhere
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Sweetwood

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SouthernBreeze said:
WEF agenda is to have everyone living inside cities where ev's are all that is necessary. Bikes and public transportation will make up the rest. Everyone living in small cubicles, with the elite telling you what to eat and how much.

Then, there are those who will rebel. They will be demoralized, demonized, and ostracized from society, and will have to fend for themselves the best way they can. I will consider myself in good company.
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This is exactly what I see. Just like the elites now, they will need an enemy to keep the city dwelling masses in fear to justify total Orwellian control. Those outliers, those on the other side of the wall, they(we) will be the new terrorists'.
 
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