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We have always feared a robot uprising that would take over the world and subjugate humans, as though robots will replace us as the ultimate alpha predators.
We've already been replaced by our own creation. Money itself is the dominant species on this planet. Capitalism is the metabolic process of the organism. The stock market is its circulatory system. Politicians are its organs. Billionaires are its reproductive system. The individual workers are the mitochondria. This is a planet scale life form that is ready to reproduce itself onto surrounding bodies in space.
If you want the solution to the Fermi paradox there it is. Once a civilization is infected with economics it's only a matter of time before it is consumed by its own creation.
Money is power in a form transferable over time and space.
Long before capitalism, people considered money to be the root of all evil. Many religions have restrictions on what can be done with money, especially asking for interest.
It's a desire fetish. Like a religious icon evokes a deity, money evokes desire.
It’s called greed.
No it's called money.
We just need to speedrun capitalism. People had it worse, tbh. Now we need to make our species survive the mass extinction. Or die trying. Here we gooooo
Capitalism accelerates on a logarithmic curve. As billionaires are added the curve steepens toward the heat death of economics.
I'm not talking about accelerationism in any way. Accelerationism would be like capitalism speedrun 100%, I'm talking more about any%
I agree fully, but would say billionaires are fat cells