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  • unperson [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This is actually already happening and is being discussed in (neoliberal) think tanks for around 30 years. Of course the plan is not to give companies seats on the UN, but to slowly make the UN irrelevant in favour of (keyword) 'multi-stakeholder' organizations. A few months ago I found a bunch of good articles explaining what multi-stakeholderism is and examples of it in here: https://www.tni.org/en/search/dossiers/25513

    Edit: I think I found out about this concept in Dardot & Laval's book The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society. It's in general a very good book.

      • unperson [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Oh nonono, the stakeholders are governments, think thanks, 'citizen advocacy groups', and multinational corporations. Because all of those deserve a voice and equal weight when taking decisions. Sometimes national entrepreneurs and academic experts also have a voice. As advisors, since academics are not really stakeholders.

        COVAX is a "multi-takeholder" 'initiative' you're very likely to be familiar with. As you know, the WHO is only one of the stakeholders. Other major stakeholders include CEPI, which was founded by Bill Gates, GAVI, which was also founded by Bill Gates, and ACT-Accelerator, which was, too, founded by Bill Gates.

    • Garbagestunts [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      There's that phrase again: global governance. Learn to spot it. There's no way a global governance will be any good for anyone but the plutocrat class.