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And it doesn't matter if you're in the United States with Roosevelt or if you're in Germany with Hitler or if you're in the USSR with Stalin.

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And you think about building the future, then you're building materials are those millions of people who are working hard in the factories, in the farms, the soldiers in the – you need them.

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You don't have any kind of future without them.

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And now fast forward to the early 21st century when we just don't need the vast majority of the population.

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On maybe a deeper level of the human mind is that people sense – a lot of people sense – that they are being left behind and left out of the story, even if their material conditions are still relatively good.

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In the 20th century, what was common to all the stories – the liberal, the fascist, the communist – is that the big heroes of the story were the common people.

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Not necessarily all people, but if you lived, say, I don't know, in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, life was very grim.

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But when you looked at the propaganda posters on the walls that depicted the glorious future, you were there.

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You looked at the posters which showed steelworkers and farmers in heroic poses, and it was obvious that this is the future.

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Now, when people look at the posters on the wall or listen to TED Talks, they hear a lot of, you know, these big ideas and big words about machine learning and genetic engineering and blockchain and globalization, and they are not there.

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They are no longer part of the story of the future.

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And I think that if I – again, this is a hypothesis – if I try to understand and to connect to the deep resentment of people in many places around the world, part of what might be going there is people realize – and they are correct in thinking that – that the future doesn't need me.

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You have all these smart people in California and in New York and in Beijing, and they are planning this amazing future with artificial intelligence and bioengineering and global connectivity and whatnot, and they don't need me.

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So maybe if they are nice, they will throw some crumbs my way, like universal basic income.

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But it's much worse psychologically to feel that you are useless than to feel that you are exploited.

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So talk about this, because this is one of the key ideas that you have been extremely articulate about.

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Talk about how you see technology shifting how things work and actually realizing those fears or risking realizing those fears even more deeply than you think people feel.

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So on one level, you know, it's the economic and military realities.

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If you go back to the middle of the 20th century, and it doesn't matter if you are in the United States with Roosevelt or if you are in Germany with Hitler or if you are in the USSR with Stalin, and you think about building the future,

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then your building materials are those millions of people who are working hard in the factories, in the farms, the soldiers in the...

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You need them.

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You don't have any kind of future without them.

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And now, fast forward to the early 21st century, when we just don't need the vast majority of the population.

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I see the need for a great reset.

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So people assume we are just going back to the good old world, which we had, and everything will be normal again.

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This is, let's say, fiction.

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It will not happen.

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When the Soviet Union, the Soviet Empire collapsed, the Empire collapsed, I moved in and picked up the pieces.

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First in Hungary in 1984, and then Poland in 87, China in 87 as well.

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And so this is how this, what I'm, the Soros Empire.

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Session we just attended here at the Economic Forum.

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I think there was a sense of relief, actually, in your frankness.

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You brought up some issues that others are reluctant to bring up.

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That's my trouble.

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Always.

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All the religious groups are against me because I'm talking about population.

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They want more souls.

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I want less on the planet.

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I want less on the planet.