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The Entire Human Species Has Been Turned Into A Profit-Generating Machine (lemmy.nz)
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The human species has essentially been transformed into a giant machine to generate profit for corporations.

Under capitalism, humanity exists to serve the interests of the corporation. We are all livestock; beasts of burden used to carry margin expansion forward from quarterly statement to quarterly statement. Enjoyment of life has no value other than the extent to which it can be used to increase the net worth of the shareholders.

That’s why everyone’s so unhappy. We’re not living with purpose. We’re not working together to build a better world and a better future, we’re just pulling levers to turn gears to make the arrow line go up on the graph in the conference room. It’s a hollow, pointless way for people to live.

It makes our whole culture vapid and soulless.

Crosspost from https://news.abolish.capital/post/56355

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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And AI is the Golden Calf that investors and CEOs think will generate profits without having to pay humans.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

There's a sort of euphoric feeling of watching the world burn down around us while all these corporations jerking off to AI realize they can't sell any of their shit to anyone as they're AI bots are just advertising to other AI bots with no money and they see their revenue plummet while the rest of us laugh in our ramen noodles and homelessness.