Just days after BlackRock CEO Larry Fink was tapped as interim co-chair of the World Economic Forum (WEF), footage has emerged of one of the globalist organization’s top members calling for a ban on the general public owning their own vehicles and living in single-family homes.
The alarming comments were made by Danish politician and WEF representative Ida Auken.
Auken, who is listed as a WEF “agenda contributor,” smugly promoted a world where personal property is eliminated and citizens live under a system of renting and sharing.
“If you can get people to share a car, you can take out a lot of cars in the streets,” Auken declared.
“If you can just use your neighbor’s car because you have a smartphone and an app, and you don’t even need to know the neighbor to get into his car.
“It’s much easier and much more fun to share.”
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The comments echo the WEF’s infamous “you’ll own nothing and be happy” narrative.
Auken’s statement is now fueling fears that unelected elites are openly pushing to strip citizens of basic ownership rights.
WEF Young Global Leader, Ida Auken, delivers a sales pitch for a future without ownership, whereby products, tools and appliances are rented and shared—in what's known as a "circular economy"—instead of owned outright pic.twitter.com/ol9HoJI7ZK
— illuminatibot (@iluminatibot) August 15, 2025
This isn’t the first time the Forum has floated such ideas.
In 2022, the WEF called for a ban on private car ownership, framing it as part of the global transition to so-called renewable energy.
The group argued that the move is necessary to reduce reliance on critical minerals like cobalt, lithium, and nickel.
The materials are essential for electric vehicles, wind turbines, and other green technologies.
“This transition from fossil fuels to renewables will need large supplies of critical metals such as cobalt, lithium, and nickel, to name a few,” the WEF said in a 2022 report.
“Shortages of these critical minerals could raise the costs of clean energy technologies.”
Even with recycling programs, the WEF warned mineral mining could spike 500% by 2050, and its “solution” was clear: less ownership, more “sharing.”
The WEF insists “more sharing” will reduce demand for vehicles, electronics, and other consumer goods.
Pointing to data that cars in England are driven only “4% of the time,” the Forum claimed widespread sharing initiatives, like Getaround and BlueSG, could dramatically slash global ownership.
The same logic was applied to electronics.
The Forum noted that while most people already own phones or laptops, nearly 40% of global workers are also issued company devices.
“This is not at all resource efficient,” the report claimed.
“Keeping a smartphone for five years instead of three reduces the phone’s annual carbon footprint by 31%.”
Their proposed fix is to incentivize corporations to discourage frequent purchases, repurpose existing devices, and nudge consumers into “sharing” instead of owning.
What the WEF doesn’t address is how such radical measures would actually work in countries like the United States, where personal cars are not luxuries but necessities, especially in rural and suburban areas with inadequate public transportation.
Nor does it grapple with the reality that its so-called “sharing economy” requires constant surveillance, data-tracking, and corporate gatekeepers controlling access to everything from cars to computers.
With Larry Fink, the head of one of the world’s most powerful financial institutions, now at the helm of the WEF, critics warn that the push to erase private ownership may accelerate.
What’s being framed as “sustainable” and “resource efficient” looks, in practice, like a top-down system.
Under these plans, ordinary people lose autonomy, while global elites gain unprecedented control over access to goods and services.
This is Ida Auken, the WEF lady (she's actually a Danish politician) who originated the "You will own nothing" line
In reality, she owns plenty pic.twitter.com/DuEQ2Co2Ds
— Daniel Greenfield – "Hang Together or Separately" (@Sultanknish) August 13, 2025
The message from the WEF is unmistakable: your home, your car, your phone, even your basic tools of daily life, are in their crosshairs.
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