Wow. That was ridiculously rude. >Maybe we need to think about whether modern capitalist economies are higher-order lifeforms that have produced many systems,

Wow. That was ridiculously rude. >Maybe we need to think about whether modern capitalist economies are higher-order lifeforms that have produced many systems, including systems of economic rationalization and "consent manufacture", that directly optimize their... ecomass. Economies behave like organisms working to increase their "ecomass", or in this case, GDP > It's no longer really about class and the means of production -- we're seeing how an organism that is larger than us has learned how to reprogram us to better serve its need. We are acting like microorganisms inside of the organism that is the economy. > The paper clip optimizer is already here, folks! Reference to the traditional story about an AI optimizing paperclip production over everything else, including human life. EDIT: For the record, I both downvoted and flagged. It was not that hard of a paragraph to parse, and you attacked it in a rude manner, and made unfounded accusations.