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.
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”.