I know not but a few fundamental truths of the world.
I know that a free market is centred around a metaphorical golden hand guiding the market towards higher productivity and quality customer experience. It’s the PG way of saying that capitalism is an ungodly child of human greed and quantification of everything definable - money.
Don’t quote me on the numbers, but I feel a meagre minority (1%) has all the money we’d want, and the rest is just stumbling by. Eerily similar to pre-revolution France, when the clergy and nobility had all the rights and wealth in the country but took up only 0.5% of the population.
But then, the quality of life for the majority was so clearly heading for doom that people spent time thinking about new world orders, rallying the masses to their causes, and educating the poor into their following. Flip a switch to the present; everybody has rights, but money speaks louder, and it’s barely distributed. Money has replaced rights, and the people are still people; the only difference is a new institution funded by the wealthy with a side mission to dangle the possibility of success in the face of the common man. To subdue his rage and turn it inwards. The government.
Sometimes, I wonder if, in another part of the world, people read about the revolution from the viewpoint of the slaughtered upper class. While I’m learning lessons about protest and free-thinking, is there another school of thought that teaches them how to subdue me into believing that anything is possible and that I live in a free world? Are there secret journals passed from Clergy to the next detailing a new world order where the rich get richer, and the poor can try their best? If so, aren't we living it or at least heading towards it?
I digress.
So this is what I know. The new world order is capitalism that’s built on human greed. The rich get richer, and the poor get relatively poorer. The rich make up and control the government, whose job is to keep people happy enough that this world order doesn’t crumble. The end result is social inequality at a pace that the majority is comfortable with.
So here comes Neuralinks. Chips you put in your brain that let you control technology. It’s no longer social inequality; it’s speciation.
Dystopian chills, am I right?
No way the government is just going to let everyone put a chip in their heads. Well, not immediately, but once all the people at the creamy top can afford it and are convinced of its pros, who will stop them?
Until the next existential rant :)
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