I'd like to point out that, because we are frugal people, we already buy 100% of our clothes at thrift shops and consignments, except for socks and underwear. And this would poleaxe us. 1) because we still need more than 3 socks per person per year (before we even get to underpants!), and 2) this would completely wipe out the secondhand clothing market on which we depend. Nobody's going to donate or consign their old clothes if they've got to make those pants last three more years to save enough credits to buy a pair of new shoes or a winter coat.
And heaven help you if your weight fluctuates, or you have growing children who blow through three clothing sizes in a year!
What this would actually look like is:
--The wealthy would be in no way constrained. They'd just buy their clothes in another town, funneling money out of the community.
--Weird graymarket workarounds for everyone else: importing used clothing from other regions (more expensive than sourcing locally), smuggling and backalley sales of new clothing (whoops! there goes a tax revenue stream!), and a lot more poor people in actual rags, which you typically have to go to a third-world country to see today.
--Selectively-enforced luxury goods policing (massive opportunity for corruption), meaning the rich still get to do whatever they want, but now we have this wildly increased potential for selective legal beat-downs of the less-fortunate. There's no way to enforce these regulations, so what will actually happen is everybody will sidestep them out of necessity (making absolutely everyone a criminal), and enforcement will be used as a weapon against people who step out of line and need to be made an example of.
Where are the tables from? Can we get a link? Did anyone send the clothing allowance to Beverly Hills and Martha's Vineyard? Is AOC going to work in the same communist outfit daily? uniforms coming?
To reach these goals there would need to be some way to prevent people from over consuming. CBDCs can help us by having carbon limits on spending. Another option is to let peak energy and the resulting financial collapse make everything unaffordable to the average person. A system combining the best of both options would be ideal imo. One wild card is how soon the massive die off in population due to vaids will impact supply chains. Diesel and electricity shortages is also unknown but that too I can see helping us reach our green goals. Ideally a major die off will help reduce the burden on natural resources but if it's too sudden it could cause collapse and panic the commoners.
This is a no-lose situation. We are going to reach our green goals one way or the other. I just hope it goes smoothly and not too bumpy down the carbon curve. Business as usual is not sustainable and will not go on. Klaus is a sharp guy and I'm confident he can guide humanity through this difficult time. I'm looking forward to being part of this amazing transformation.
I'd like to point out that, because we are frugal people, we already buy 100% of our clothes at thrift shops and consignments, except for socks and underwear. And this would poleaxe us. 1) because we still need more than 3 socks per person per year (before we even get to underpants!), and 2) this would completely wipe out the secondhand clothing market on which we depend. Nobody's going to donate or consign their old clothes if they've got to make those pants last three more years to save enough credits to buy a pair of new shoes or a winter coat.
And heaven help you if your weight fluctuates, or you have growing children who blow through three clothing sizes in a year!
What this would actually look like is:
--The wealthy would be in no way constrained. They'd just buy their clothes in another town, funneling money out of the community.
--Weird graymarket workarounds for everyone else: importing used clothing from other regions (more expensive than sourcing locally), smuggling and backalley sales of new clothing (whoops! there goes a tax revenue stream!), and a lot more poor people in actual rags, which you typically have to go to a third-world country to see today.
--Selectively-enforced luxury goods policing (massive opportunity for corruption), meaning the rich still get to do whatever they want, but now we have this wildly increased potential for selective legal beat-downs of the less-fortunate. There's no way to enforce these regulations, so what will actually happen is everybody will sidestep them out of necessity (making absolutely everyone a criminal), and enforcement will be used as a weapon against people who step out of line and need to be made an example of.
It looks like those screenshots came from this document:
https://www.c40.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2270_C40_CBE_MainReport_250719.original.pdf
Great information, John Paul. And I’m ALWAYS wanting more content from you. Getting lots more won’t bother me!
Where are the tables from? Can we get a link? Did anyone send the clothing allowance to Beverly Hills and Martha's Vineyard? Is AOC going to work in the same communist outfit daily? uniforms coming?
Hi John. Where were those slides taken from?
Do you have a link you can share to show their origin please?
Edit. Just seen they were from
https://www.c40.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2270_C40_CBE_MainReport_250719.original.pdf
... Wow.
To reach these goals there would need to be some way to prevent people from over consuming. CBDCs can help us by having carbon limits on spending. Another option is to let peak energy and the resulting financial collapse make everything unaffordable to the average person. A system combining the best of both options would be ideal imo. One wild card is how soon the massive die off in population due to vaids will impact supply chains. Diesel and electricity shortages is also unknown but that too I can see helping us reach our green goals. Ideally a major die off will help reduce the burden on natural resources but if it's too sudden it could cause collapse and panic the commoners.
This is a no-lose situation. We are going to reach our green goals one way or the other. I just hope it goes smoothly and not too bumpy down the carbon curve. Business as usual is not sustainable and will not go on. Klaus is a sharp guy and I'm confident he can guide humanity through this difficult time. I'm looking forward to being part of this amazing transformation.
Is this from the WEF?