argia.eus
INPRIMATU
Technology
Absorbent capitalism
Diana Franco Eguren 2024ko ekainaren 19a

I don't know if there are systems like capitalism in other species. In this system, the life force of some people of our species is oriented to support the lives of others. When I think about capitalism, I get to the head the sting of Freezer, of the Dragon Ball, pitifully absorbing everything in front of it. A world in which the only beneficiary is the same system (that monster that we humans have created). Sometimes it seems to me that capitalism has its own life, and we, human beings, are so dominated, that we cannot imagine another reality, and that is why we have become synbiontes (a relationship between two different living organisms in which both, or at least one of the two, benefit) together with capitalism.

The absorbing power of this synthetic synbionte that we form with capitalism has been increasing with digitalization. But the monster wants to continue to grow and the vigilantes of the persistence of capitalism are obliged to invent at all times new ways of feeding the system. Artificial intelligence seems to increase absorption capacity, and today we are in a bubble in which large investments are being made, but they do not always go well. For example, we've known that behind the technology of automated physical stores, Amazon, there were a thousand people from India spying on shoppers through cameras and doing shopping calculations, because artificial intelligence can't do this work autonomously at the moment. The watchmen of capitalism hire people as long as it turns out to be a technology of substitution for expensive or impossible people. It's a thing, how much cloak can capitalism absorb people's capabilities? I believe it has a great capacity, but life does not stop, and people are not the necessary elements for capitalism to reach a point of uniqueness; human beings have too many variables and complexities that condition our nature, including imagination. Within the system, therefore, capitalism has a virus included from the very beginning.