They have oligarchs. We have socially responsible entrepreneurs.
They have oligarchs. We have socially responsible entrepreneurs. Riley Waggman Thomas Röper’s “war of the systems” seems a bit fishy The world’s benevolent captains of industry gathered in the Swiss Alps last week to discuss tax-extraction schemes and other sustainable ways to make life intolerable. All the famous space lizards were in attendance, except for the Russian ones, who were blacklisted by the World Economic Forum last April. As expected, Thomas Röper, curator of German-language Anti-Spiegel, announced that Russia’s exclusion from SchwabCon 2023 was ultimate proof that Moscow “opposed the West’s plans with all [its] might.” “The WEF meeting in Davos shows the front line in the war of the systems,” Röper wrote. What are these two distinct systems, purportedly locked in mortal combat? The western system is an oligarchy controlled by unscrupulous, conniving fat cats; in sharp contrast, the Russian system is run by a sovereign government that doesn’t allow oligarchs to make p