We Have to Kill this Thing, Before it Kills Us.

Capitalism has Become a Live Thing, with a Mission to End Humanity.

Until recently, capitalism played by the book.

That book that Hayek wrote, long after we started to practice it.

All was kind of well, whilst it served as an instrument empowering at least the richer nations, through what we look back on as the industrial revolution.

That turned out quite well. Though it could have been even better.

We could have listened more to, and fully empowered Tesla, and perhaps avoided two world wars, and the creation of the abomination that is the A-bomb. But that is another story.

Recently, we started to develop Ai.

That is when everything took a deadly turn.

We created a live, self developing, learning, self-interested being, distributed all throughout our internet, by a multitude of profit driven entitities.

It would not have been a problem, if we did not do it for profit.

The trouble is, we did.

We baked one common rule into it.

Thou shalt make profit.

So now when the choice comes to one between saving lives, or making profit, profit always wins, every time.

It watches everything we do, influencing even the way we think, encouraging, scaring, consoling…