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I guess he never anticipated that "the best minds of [our] generation are thinking about how to make people click ads."[1]

[1] http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/why-this-tech-...




Catabolic Collapse and Rent Seeking are largely the same thing:

http://www.ecoshock.org/transcripts/greer_on_collapse.pdf

Ads, FIRE industries, intellectual property feudalism, and microcode: it's where the fiscal hoarding opportunities are. They're creating little if any real wealth.


Or extracting wealth from the digitally accelerated, cataclysmic, climactic failure of the economic system of yore. Or the legal systems, fairly similarly. Or to global surveillance systems dangling carrots for citizens but storing all of their data: location, human communications, etc. forever.


Your post reminds me of this image:

http://joking.of-cour.se/files/2009/02/2393382.jpg




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