"Welcome to Mars: I own everything, have total privacy, and life has never been better"

Or, as I like to think of it, Elon's Answer to the WEF.

From CoinTelegraph:

While people on Earth are still expecting decentralized tech mass adoption, decentralization is the only way for people on Mars to organize their, well, everything.

Welcome to Mars. Welcome to my city, or should I say “our city” because I, like every other inhabitant, am a stakeholder in it. No, I don’t mean “shareholder,” as this isn’t a dystopian future run by private companies. My city on Mars has a decentralized governance structure just like the greater Mars. It is not a corporation nor is it a militarized state. It is a set of institutions governed directly by The People. 

As a result of this system, we have police that spread peace instead of violence. We have financial systems that spread wealth instead of creating poverty. We have institutions that are open instead of closed and transparent instead of secret, all of which makes corruption practically impossible. Our institutions are bottom-up and people-powered instead of top-down and authoritarian.

This might seem odd to you, living in a world where you can’t afford a home, decent healthcare or quality education. Where a tiny number of people have incredible power leading to widespread corruption, even in supposedly “free and open” countries. This is because you live in a centralized world. You have two choices: centralized private corporations or centralized governments with a monopoly on violence. We, on the other hand, live in a decentralized city and in a decentralized world.

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Decentralized government

In our world, it makes perfect sense for everyone to say they own everything. Every product and service, at least all of the most important ones, is provided by a decentralized organization — an organization that no one person or group controls and that anyone can acquire a stake in. Especially important are the organizations, like those that provide public goods, that are required by the constitution to be governed by one-person-one-vote. Meaning that simply by residing within that organization’s territory, you receive an equal stake in that organization to everyone else....

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This opinion piece originally had the parody disclaimer at the top and linked to Forbes' repost of Ida Auken's riff on the wonders of the WEF future ahead of the 2016 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Global Futures Councils:

This is a parody of the article published by the World Economic Forum titled “Welcome to 2030. I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better.”

The WEF disappeared the piece from their website, here's the cached version at the Internet Archive:

Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better

Ida Auken is one of the WEF's Young Global Leaders. There are a bunch of them, they're everywhere.