Perhaps the greatest irony about the ascension of Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, the former CEO and Chairman of the Board of Nestlé, to the throne at the World Economic Forum is that the wave of criticism aimed at him is largely based on a misinterpretation of his most controversial comment.
As a critic of the World Economic Forum, I have to agree that Brabeck-Letmathe is a globalist with a damaging agenda, but his Bond Villain status was not really earned by his desire to kill vast swathes of people by denying them water.
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🚨 WEF INTERIM CHAIR: “YOU DON’T HAVE A RIGHT TO WASH YOUR CAR OR FILL YOUR POOL” 🚨
That’s right — Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, the man stepping in for Klaus Schwab, just said it out loud.
💧 “You only need 50–100 litres of water a day.”
No washing your… pic.twitter.com/tVmHH01v91— Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) April 23, 2025
The point that PBL–I refuse to type out that long name a lot of times–was making was that nobody has a right to unlimited water without paying for it. As a limited resource, clean water must be rationed somehow, and market mechanisms are an efficient way to do so. If people can’t pay for more than they actually need, they can’t demand that others do so.
It’s like food–everybody should have food, and a moral society won’t let people starve–but we don’t expect every pricy restaurant to open its doors to all comers because food is a “right.”
Now that I am done defending him, I will proceed to trash him. In most respects, he is as bad as Schwab, and the great advantage he has over Schwab is that he dresses normally. This is no small thing, because PBL has an Austrian accent, giving off that Germanic autocrat vibe, so staying away from the Blowfeld look is smart.
PBL is still obsessed with limiting resources for the masses, still obsessed with using authoritarian means implemented by a technocracy to control people’s lives, and still trying to create a fascistic transnational cartel of governments, NGOs, and corporations to remake the world.
Call it the “freedom is slavery” coalition.
This should surprise nobody, because PBL, as the Interim Chair of the World Economic Forum, is simply rising from his position as Vice Chair. The changing of the guard is a power play, not a rebranding or change in direction. Think of it as a new mafia don taking out the old to run the same protection racket.
The fundamental tenet that globalism is the only way for human beings to survive and thrive remains the same. The driving principle is the push to control resources and remake everybody’s lives in the image of the globalists. None of that has or will change.
You can look at PBL’s tenure at Nestlé to see what that means. He didn’t just remake the company to be more profitable and efficient–YAY!–he dove right into corporate activism, ESG, pushing transnationalism, and remaking entire cultures. He is of the left, but more the Hillary Clinton left than the Biden version that lurched beyond technocracy. Biden roiled the masses. PBL wants those 15-minute cities to be implemented at a pace that is less noticeable to the masses.
In this respect, I have to admit that I overstated his Bond-villain qualities, but not by much. The goal is world domination, for sure, but he understands the need not to wear those creepy clothes and admit out loud that he is determined to enslave us all.
That doesn’t make him better than Schwab. It makes him, if anything, more dangerous.
