This is how humanity’s story ends, with proudly irresponsible capitalists with god complexes harnessing and packaging technologies they don’t even care to understand or consider the consequences of, believing society will pay to repair any “externality” they cause.
Greedy, impulsive monkeys with nukes.
I know it’s a shopworn cliche at this point, but “unlimited growth” is also cancer’s goal. We’re so fucked. There’s no stopping the billionaire tech bros.
Yup.
Whenever I’m tearing into the market capitalism grift, I make a point of calling its pursuit “infinite growth/metastasis.”
To take the analogy further, look what happens in our late stage cancer/capitalism, when running out of markets to grow/metastasize, the megacorps are now eating themselves alive to grow/metastasize which is why we have DiscoveryHboWarnerbrosblahblah that charges more for unwatchably worse reality based, cheap to produce garbage content because they ate superior competition and now your stuck with the rancid shit they shovel instead, so eat up!
Same thing happening in every economic sector. The snake eating its own tail having conquered every square on the board.
Yes. I have also heard this phenomenon called “catabolic collapse”.
When a human takes in a dog and makes it tame, the dog stays in a juvenile state of mind. It never grows up.
That’s sort of what happens to young people who get rich. They don’t grow up. They don’t take responsibility. They’re very successful in business because capitalism rewards ruthless behaviour. They’re tamed by capital.
They are rich in money, but ignorant and poor in morality.
This domesticated dog thing is an interesting comparison, and it rings true to me. Only these billionaire dogs are far more dangerous than even a rabid dog.
They lack the empathy, values, and understanding that comes from growing up a normal working class person. Yet, they think of themselves as “six sigma elites” who have clawed their way up to the top of the evolutionary food chain. They are really just spoiled undeveloped man-child types with access to power and toys no one person should have access to.
They are like evil demi-gods. Too much power, not enough humanity.
I should probably add: Bezos grew up on a “farm” but it was really just a fantasy role play kind of thing that was built by his rich grandfather. Yes, he worked very hard on that farm. But his survival didn’t depend on it. He was still born with every advantage that a real farmer from “back in the day” would not have.
I wish he was still-born
lol, right there with ya
What a great metaphor that makes sense of so much of what I’ve seen. I grew up pretty privileged but my family fell on hard times in my teenage years. I see people I knew as a child or people from similar backgrounds and it’s clear that they are developmentally stunted in some way I couldn’t quite put my finger on but it makes sense in the context you described; their privilege has given them a protected, juvenile mentality. I actually had a conversation with my dad once that a silver lining of our tough times is I didn’t end up like “such-and-such” idiots we just ran into.
society will pay to repair any “externality” they cause.
Privatize profits, socialize losses.
Since when does anybody give a fuck what some filthy currenct addict thinks?
Can confirm, always on some form of merry-go-round, am filthy :/
Unfortunately, the successful currency addicts are our society’s effective dictators, so it’s not about caring what they think, it’s about us powerlessly having to bear the brunt of their whims.
Republicans are a vote for crony market capitalism and social regression.
(Neoliberal aka the vast majority of office holding) Democrats are a vote for crony market capitalism and social progression when it doesn’t get in the way of crony market capitalism.
This is more a work camp than a society.
It needs to change, altho i have zero naïvete to presume it will until there’s some turning point
I’ve simply concluded that we are just in a phase of humanity, and whatever happens, some will survive and rebuild again, however long it takes, so I just hang in there. Everyone is profiting from doom, and some of it is warranted, but not to the point of being afraid and angry at everything.
Assuming there won’t be wars or famines worldwide, as things are trending currently the only ones left over will be the ultra religious, like the Amish or Haredi jews. Everyone else is shrinking so fast, there will be at least 90% less babies within the ~3rd generation from today.
Unless something changes, the future is theocracy.
The way it looks, yea, I’m just saying that’s probably the near future, but the far future has many more possibilities.
