Top risks identified by the World Economic Forum for 2024

All three of these issues are symptomatic of a deeper historical issue related to how we make decisions, and how we choose decision makers.

Over the last four centuries the use of elections to select decision makers has grown alongside corporate wealth and influence. 

The arrival of the internet and mobile phones, leads to pervasive invasion of individuals thinking and time habits, leading to very complex mass feedback that exacerbates these issues.  The corporate capture of internet is thus a key concern. 

Corporate capture of democratic processes through revolving door mechanisms leads to the emergence of profiteering as the primary social and political driver.

The very act of employment and existence of usury debt financed economies are acts of violence perpetrated on the masses by elite minorities. 

The prioritization of profit leads to pollution, causing extreme weather events.

 The need to win elections drives polarization and mis-information. 

The need to promote incorrect points of view to create voting power bases for specific factions leads to mid information and polarization. 

The existence of internet plus cellular mobile technology enables non-democratic actors (corporations and authoritarian regimes) to influence individuals through corporate marketing and misinformation. These tools have converted humans into cash cows through the creation of virtual feeding troughs designed to hack human brains to keep their attention on handsets..

 The world economic forum itself is a product of these kinds of processes. 

So I would put as the top issue the use of social media and mobile technology to manipulate and engage people alongside poorly engineered collective decision making and policy formation processes. And poorly structure financial systems. 

There needs to be a return to in person non-virtual or better virtual processes before any of these issues can be addressed.  And the collective globalization of alternative pluralistic approaches to finance. 

The COP summits are a great example of corporate capture of decision making. Which drives all three of these issues. The solution is greater use of sortition in making decisions that shape the corporate political and corporate landscapes   I think that would address all three issues. 

So 1) poor societal decision making structure 2) reduction in critical thinking capacity of society through social media 3)  growth of AI tools.   These are concurrent issues that under lie all three of of symptomatic issues high lighted by WEF.  4) inequitable access to capital 5) biases in infrastructure 6)  finance systems engineered for benefit of a small minority.  7) cultural dependence on individualism and lack of pluralistic culture.  These are a driving forces for the three topics presented as the most pressing issues. 

In terms of magnitude I think the consequences the three issues are correct.