Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.
Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
The free market is not a god; we have to do everything we can to make the market competitive.
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
But beginners to the World Economics Forum have to understand there is no single Davos experience, and there is no single Davos community either. There are numerous tribes who interact only at a minimal level.
The gods, if they exist, are just the people who happen to live on the other side.
And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
The market is no god - it cannot solve every problem.