ou ever tried Googling that to see if that actually really happened? Never happened. It's one of the most pervasive beliefs on the right. Never happened. Nope, didn't happen.

I'll tell you what did happen that people think happened. What he did say is in the future you might have things delivered to you by drone that you would rent. That you would have things delivered by drone that you would rent. You wouldn't own it. Now he did say that, right? Am I right? He said you would have things delivered by drone and that you would rent them. You wouldn't own them, right? And I'm agreeing with you. It's in a video that things would be delivered by drones and you would rent them, not own them.

Now what kinds of things can be delivered by a drone? What do you think? What kind of things could be delivered by a drone? Well, I could think of, let's say you needed a specialized tool or even a specialized medical device. Let's say you needed a medical device, or like the other day I needed a tool to check on my internet connectivity. So I wanted a special meter that would tell me if my Ethernet jack was alive. Did I need to own that? Did I need to own that? Or if I could call up a drone to be there in an hour with that tool and I rented it and I put it back on the drone and returned it, would I be happy? Probably. Probably I'd be happy because I wouldn't have to buy it for something I would only use once, and I'd be happy.

Now here's the context. How do you get to the point where drones are delivering things you can rent? What is the possible way you could ever get to that future? I can only see one way: market forces. Just market forces. They'll make the drones better. Leasing is better than buying for some types of products, but not all. All I see is Klaus Schwab — all I see is him saying the obvious. The market forces will have us delivering things that we rent and we'll like it. Why wouldn't you like that? It's just an option. They didn't take away your ability to own a tool. They just said you could get one for rent if you wanted to. To me this is just a statement of the most obvious market force predictions. Drones will deliver stuff you can rent.

Now how about owning a private automobile? Do you think the World Economic Forum wants you to not own a private automobile? Probably. Probably, yeah, I agree. Do you know what's going to make that happen? Market forces. It's not going to be them. The minute I cannot own a car, I'm all over it. The minute I don't have to own a car and I can still get anywhere I want, I am getting rid of my car that day. The day I don't need a car, it's gone. Right now you might say no, I love my car, and I'll bet you get to keep it. I'll bet you get to keep your car for a long time, probably your whole lifetime. But at some point it just won't make sense to own a car. It won't make sense for you as an individual. You know, you can use your garage for something else.

So what I see with this old Klaus Schwab thing is that he talks about market forces delivering us a different kind of society that we would enjoy but not taking away all our options, just giving us more options, and it would move in a certain way. Now somebody says here it is, here's the video. Now I can watch the video, but remember I just agreed with you what it says. So watching the video doesn't move our argument forward because you're saying and I'm saying the same thing. He did say that you'll rent things in the future. He did say that. We're all agreeing on that. So I don't have to see it. But what's it mean? He didn't say we're going to introduce some communism so you can't own things. Market forces alone will make you not want to own a car. I already don't want to own a car. Owning a car is the worst deal in the world. It's terrible, right? Unless you love cars, then it's fine. It's more like a hobby.

All right, but anyway, I would ask you to do this. Whenever you see any kind of Klaus Schwab reset stuff, just take a look at the debunks. You know, just Google it, because I think you've got that story — at least some of you have that story completely wrong. Feels like it to me.

Yeah, so they predicted the World Economic Forum, I guess, that by 2030 people would rent what they needed and they'd be happy about it. I don't know. Andres Backhouse tweeted today there's some stats coming out from Germany. The consumption of natural gas in Germany was down over 19 percent compared to 2021 and even more compared to the 10-year average. And consumption in 2022 is down 14, almost 15 percent. And as Andres points out, if it continues, the EU gas saving targets might be feasible. So the EU is looking to fairly drastically cut back on gas production, and it looks like it might be doable. It might be doable.

So here is another application of the Adams' Law of Slow-Moving Disasters, and it gets us to an edge case. The only other edge case that was kind of clean was the year 2000 problem, when we thought the computers couldn't handle the year 2000 and society would break down. I felt like people didn't get serious about fixing that until a year before it had to be fixed, but in one year it was completely fixed. I don't think there was a single problem that I heard of, right? So it feels like the Adams' Law of Slow-Moving Disasters, if it's software, could be fixed in a year. Software is easier to fix. But what happens when you know a year in advance-ish that you might have to cut back your energy production by 20 percent or whatever the guideline is? Is a year enough for people to change all the things they do enough to cut back 20 percent? And I think the answer is yes. It looks like the answer is yes, that people can cut back 20 percent if you give them enough time and adjustments and they know they have to do it. Yeah, if you have COVID going on, but this is sort of semi-post-COVID.

Likewise, Germany just said it's going to fire up three more nuclear plants. If this sounds like a repeat, it's three more. So they already announced they were going to reopen some plants, and they just announced three more are likely to be reopened. And apparently they can do it quickly. Apparently they can do this in a year or so because they're already built. They just have to be fired up. Does Adams' Law apply to Lake Mead? The answer is yes, in the sense that will California run out of water? I think not, but I don't know how we're going to avoid it, frankly. I have no idea how we're going to avoid running out of water in California, but we do have time to figure it out. So I think we'll figure it out, but who knows anyway.

Anyway, Germany looks like it'll be okay despite how Putin's threat to them is pretty serious. I think they'll be okay.

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