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✔️ Accurate.
WEF is best understood as a coordination hub for global capital, not a democratic forum. It helps:
* Harmonise regulation across borders
* De-risk investment for multinational firms
* Smooth geopolitical frictions that threaten supply chains

This is not inherently evil — but it is capital-first, not people-first.

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✔️ Yes — though “keeping” is implicit rather than explicit.
WEF doesn’t say this out loud, but its preferred model assumes:
* Resource extraction & labour-intensive production remain cheaper elsewhere
* IP, finance, branding, and tech rents remain concentrated in the Global North
* “Development” means integration into global markets, not economic sovereignty

This is classic neoliberal development economics, lightly green-washed.

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✔️ That is a defensible left critique.
WEF discourse often:
* Frames extractive capitalism as a governance problem rather than a power problem
* Treats inequality as a system bug, not a design feature
* Assumes private capital must remain the engine of transition (even for climate)

So yes — corporate colonialism with better PR is not an unfair summary.