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Evolve Capitalism, Don't Destroy It

From: Xavier Ginesta

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Speaker B: So, I was thinking about the meeting we had last week. There were a lot of good points brought up, especially about the budget concerns. I think we need to prioritize those changes sooner rather than later. Also, the feedback from the team was really insightful, and I believe it will help us streamline our processes moving forward.

explaining before, how our system—because I'm not against capitalism. I'm for evolution of capitalism. I'm for letting capitalism complete its function and evolve in the direction it wants to evolve because the problem is not the system, it's how we're using it. Capitalism is meant to fight scarcity.

Once we realize that human beings are finite beings, so we have finite needs, so finite sources of scarcity, once we've created technology that can take care of all our needs, we can do two things. Say, okay, thank you, capitalism. Now we are in a space where we no longer need the tools that took us here. And we're in a place where we can start developing these inner technologies without worrying about survival.

That's the potential of technology, that we can use technology to remove our fear. It's great for fear removal. What's the problem is that the system we've developed has been so efficient fighting scarcity, that now we've put all our trust in the system. We don't want the

SpeakerName: system to die, even though it serves no purpose. And how—this is where the craziness comes in—how are we preserving the integrity of the system? How is the mindset, how is the immune system of the mindset defending itself from self-destruction? Well, creating artificial sources of scarcity.

That's the problem of our society, that we keep creating business models that make no sense. We've created fast fashion, we've created all digital forms of addiction. In general, any form of addiction is a form of artificial psychological scarcity that makes no sense from a human perspective, but makes a lot of sense from a business perspective, because for the very reason that there are no more natural sources of real scarcity left, it's easier to create profitable business by exploiting artificial sources of scarcity, which destroy the ecosystem, which destroy our human values, which destroy our psyche. That's the problem.

That's the problem we have today. So, and that's a problem with technology, the same technology, the same technology can be used for good or for not so good. You can use fire to warm up your house or for burning your neighbors, right? So AI is the same as fire, except that it is much more powerful, right?

Speaker A: Yeah.

Speaker B: So the problem is not technology, it's the level of consciousness behind it.