> What the critics leave out is that the WEF was saying that people would be happier not owning anything. Given that happiness is often a cultural construct (w

> What the critics leave out is that the WEF was saying that people would be happier not owning anything. Given that happiness is often a cultural construct (wildly different things make people happy dependent on the cultural context), and that many WEF members are cultural influencers the critics response is that the current people will not really be happy, but the WEF will arrange the culture so that future people are. Any outside group conspiring to change your culture is a normal cause for alarm.