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

Always has been?

They're working on a way to monetize just breathing just you wait.

I feel like the only way we could ever escape this is by going back to trading with actual goods. Money is the root issue. Because it isn't worth anything by itself, except maybe fire tinder or goat feed, everyone and everything always needs to generate profit in order to do anything else than work, e.g. eat. And the profit part is also the issue. Everyone cannot make a profit, unless you create new money, which will make it worth less, and your profit margins need to keep increasing, which, again, everyone can't do, and the cycle continues.

It's just a flawed system in general, even if you use precious metal coins or something, those things don't really have any inherent value to a human being. You can't eat it for nutrients, can't really use it as building material (debatable I guess).

We need to have goods for goods, and goods for services.

Life will be a lot more boring, but we'll escape this hamster wheel, perhaps.

Or it will just bring us other problems. 🤷‍♂️

Edit: this also means we need to get rid of the profession of being a trader. Because they inherently only work to make a profit. As they pay for things, they need to pay under value and sell over value, because they produce nothing but profit for themselves. Everyone has to produce something or be entirely self-sufficient. It's very difficult.

Slavery wasn’t ended. Just rebranded and expanded.

The human species has essentially been transformed into a giant machine to generate profit for corporations.

It doesn't stop at humans. Farm animals, plants, minerals, everything is for profit.

Kill the rich, save the poor. Taxation, is not enough for the current era. There must be justice for the crimes committed. Once they are dead, then we can figure out how to run the world without capitalism. Untill then, the elimination of the ultra-rich by any means should be the goal. Everything else is noise.

No fate but what we make for ourselves.