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Illusions Lost - An Elegy in Three Parts (I)

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Technocrats replace unsustainable people with sustainable "smart" machines. The technocrats are not going to die. The technocrats are building the "smart" future. The smart future needs the smart technocrats and doesn't need the stupid people.

What happens to all the unsustainable people whose work has been replaced by machines, but who still need to consume material resources - food, energy, clothes, housing - to survive as living creatures?

They are redundant.

They are unsustainable.

They die off.

Extinction.

An evolutionary extinction event in which homo sapiens - smart humans - are replaced by even smarter machines: mechanico sapiens.

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I spent my working life as an independent small business owner/operator. My academic background is in philosophy and political economy. I began studying monetary systems and monetary history after the 1982 banking crash that was precipitated by (more...)
 

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