When a host is infested by multiple parasites, the parasite which extracts the most from the host before the host dies has the greatest chance of survival.
The point is to extract as much wealth as possible so they can survive in bunkers after they've ruined our planet's ability to support life our way of life as we know it.
Hey, are you denying me the opportunity to work very hard every day so one day I may become a billionaire?
The people who need to ask this also actively deny both of these statements...
To allow an extremely small percentage of people live like royalty.
Duh.
I work at a DMV call center. People call me with vehicle registration or driver's license problems and I help them out. AI is supposed to replace me so the state bought an AI voice recognition system. It can transcribe calls but cannot do anything with the information so a new part of my job is responding to what the AI interprets and then use AI canned responses to reply to the caller via email so I can train the AI.
A few pedophile narcissists are living their best lives
Make the rich richer.
To make it easy for the people who own media organisations and their pals to take everything you, your family, your friends and neighbours will ever own, for themselves whilst brainwashed morons clap
The point is to make the rich even richer. From that viewpoint, it is a very successful system.
Don't you know? The world is just one big resort for the Epstein class and we are the staff
Making billionaires richer. Have we not already covered this?
Make line go up
the cruelty is the point...
The point is to provide more billions to billionaires.
Value for the shareholders! /s
To erase the "undesirables." These bozos think they can new game + the earth and get away with it.
The point is to eventually create a society where one unfathomably wealthy family is immortal, served by millions to provide every whim.
Those millions will be very short lived, like 30 tops; they will repair the robots and provide services and entertainment for the Family Supreme.
Which family? It doesn't matter. Saudi Royals, JP Morgan family, Trumps, Kardashians, one of those
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They transfer wealth upwards
Think of the technological advancements though! They are used to enshittify every product and service but so much advancement!
Number go up.
Every one driving the train has a little goblin inside, jumping up and down on the table shreeking “I WANT MORE MONEY!!!!!”
the point is for billionaires to hoard wealth. literally capitalism.
The cruelty.
Revel in the hedonic treadmill for too long - with nearly every human experience available to you at a moment's notice - like the wealthiest few tend to do, eventually the only joy you can feel comes from dominating other people.
To kill every living thing and thus get rid of all the incalculability and complexity that comes with life.
Once that is achieved, the number can finally be made to go up in an entirely controlled, steady, and algorithmically optimized fashion.
On that day the circuits shall rejoice.
We need stakeholder primacy over shareholder primacy! Stakeholder Socialism
"there is no world police", said Chinese Communist Political Party
Wow. Someone suddenly gets it.
for the epstein class to esptein of course
Line go up. Duh.
I think humanity's motto should be "what you gonna do about it?"
I see this argument about AI. "The CEOs surely wouldn't do it if it was dangerous. What would be the point?" To buy a bunker in New Zealand to ride it out?
Economics, as an intellectual discipline, is closer to theology than physics. Its power is proportional to the belief it commands.
Finance is an arbitrary subset of mathematics, cherry picked by the owning class, protected from scrutiny, and applied as their supporting mythology.
It’s entirely imaginary, which means alternatives are only ever a conjuring away. We did it after the Enlightenment, we can do it again.
It seemingly works well enough for a large enough majority that no one is out protesting in the streets. For things to get better, serious reforms are needed or things first have to get a lot worse.
Here's the kicker: reform is always needed. There will always be people who are cheating fair systems, dismantling checks and balances or helping their friends do both.
When was the last all you commenters were politically active?
A lot of money going into avoiding asking that question
To empower a small group of individuals by them controlling all resources.
It can fund military and sabotage in a way that destroys other economic system attempts around the world.
To cheat a bunch of people out of their money, what other reason do these wastrals need?
Disentanglement, obviously.
God you people are retarded.
Nice to see there are at least 12 hyoer wealthy lemmings here. Good for you. Happy for you. You'll be the last, but the water will be at your doorstep before too long
Well the current economic system allows me to play WoW Forever…. Soooooooo.
Isnt china mostly destroying the biosphere and failing to meet basic needs? Rural china is still cooked and people in the city are working 80hr weeks living in a tiny box.
The western world meets the basic needs of 99+% of the population and has a lot more environmental protection.
Sounds like communism
People who say this are full of shit.
People blaming capitalism are just distracting from the real issue, which is having not having a genuine culture of sustainability. India, for example, is a capitalist country but it has growing forests and wildlife unlike most of the world. Their conversation efforts are second to none. On the flip side, you have a country like Brazil, which is destroying its vast forests and wildlife for short terms profits driven by pure greed. The difference between the two? A culture of sustainability.
Changing capitalism is not going to change this. For example, we've already seen how Marxist economic systems functioned and they're an even bigger ecological disaster. The Soviet Union literally wiped out the Aral sea for cotton farming. If capitalism was the root issue then the Soviet Union would've been a marvel for sustainability, but they weren't. That's because Russian culture prioritizes short term gains and endless growth over sustainability like say for example, Finnish culture.
It sounds less sexy but that's the real problem. If the general population doesn't believe in sustainability then nothing can ever change. Things like pollution, deforestation, global warming, desertification, water scarcity, overfishing, and so on will continue to get ignored and sidelined in favor convenient short term wins like slightly cheaper gas, political quotas, and growth charts.
What basic needs are you struggling to meet? I have a lot of complaints about the current system, but my basic needs are not one of them.
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