The Next Era of Capitalism: Artificial Intelligence and 5G’s Unprecedented Power Over the People (and Nature)

The Next Era of Capitalism: Artificial Intelligence and 5G’a Unprecedented Power Over the People (and Nature)

• The implementation of 5G and artificial intelligence represents the most greedy, invasive, and
  destructive iteration of capitalism, far exceeding earlier land, industry, and wealth grabs, and
  worker exploitation.
• For sale: our thoughts, moods, health indicators, expressions of voice, actions, conversations,
  activities and connections.
• For coercion: manipulation and purchases, self-image, mood, and any outcome that may be sought
  (including that of personal connections).
• The infrastructure, maintenance of dossiers and voodoo dolls, and use of artificial intelligence, is
  leading to a “seventh extinction” and a “coup from above” (both Zuboff.)
• Our humanity is challenged by infrastructure’s physical harms, and artificial intelligence and chat’s mental control
  and bodily manipulation.

Clearly much better systems can be designed to promote health, equity, and sustainability while respecting human rights, privacy, dignity and human mental and physical functioning. Nonetheless, let's look at how we got here.

The illegal artificial intelligence infrastructure is the logical next generation of “capitalism.” Having
destroyed labor in many countries, grabbed farmable land, privatized major industries, and taken money
from the population through deceptive schemes and stock market bubbles, there simply is less to
exploit. Surveillance capitalism solves the major challenge for power today:

• The challenge for compound and more extreme growth – The accumulation of capital seeks
  places to invest, requiring compound growth (Harvey, see list of sources for all citations). Even worse, sovereign wealth funds may be like the biggest and most aggressive hedge fund, only 50 to 100 times
  larger, and outside the reach of any regulatory authority (Taibbi). The old model of hedge funds
  of raiding companies and bankrupting countries by demanding bond repayment has given way
  to investments based on spying, mostly unregulated pricing, and other manipulation. We don’t
  know who owns America, what rights we’ve sold, and at what price. Obviously, simply a market-based economy does not require such machination.
• Also worth noting is history: the roles of neoliberalism, market bubbles, and debt in supporting
  the continuation of capitalism. Loans were made to nations from the International Monetary
  Fund and World Bank that were intentionally beyond the capacity to repay and based on
  unrealistic growth models (the failure would allow greater Western control – John Perkins).
  Nations were forced to privatize their industries and make cuts to government services and
  education, with an emphasis on microloans and entrepreneurship. A broader neoliberal agenda
  included predatory globalization, included anti-democratic trade deals to prevent democratically
  elected politicians from changing laws. Market bubbles based on obscure models, which
  destroyed other nations institutions and transferred enormous sums of the people’s wealth,
  were similarly reliant on the effective limit to democratic rights and power. Lastly, Harvey points
  out that there is concern that accumulation of debts is necessary for accumulation of capital,
  which would result in Republican and European groups’ efforts to limit or eliminate debt
  potentially posing a greater threat to the future of capitalism than prior activism of the working
  class.
• There is a limit to what can be taken from the people and planet – Sun Microsystem co-founder Vinod Kholsa sees a time when 7 or 8 out of 10 people relatively soon will not have
  steady work available to them (Giriharadas). People’s jobs depend on ignoring their electrical
  injury (electromagnetic hypersensitivity and worse), even requiring the constant use of
  connected devices. There is also a limit to how the planet can be exploited.
• People need entertainment (Kholsa, Giridharadas) – All that free time, why won’t we spend it
  outside? Why are we not seeing Western governments planning for major increases in extreme
  hiking, marathons, and athletic competitions, with our flexible work schedule or unemployed
  workforce? Why won’t we see the newly relaxed humans growing healthy food (safe from
  electromagnetic radiation, genetic modification, and pesticides)? Or the greatest uprising ever?
  Why won’t we see them using their executive function rather than constantly being herded,
  tuned, and conditioned (Zuboff) through a higher level than currently multi-trillion dollar
  metaverse (powers fight over its control, rather than existence.)?
  The questions that are not being asked have many answers. These are based on science and the
  vision for surveillance capitalism/a high level metaverse: progressively declining physical and
  mental health for much of the population, potential harm to humans in common public areas
  with many devices, and a desire to hold on to illegally or exploitatively gained profit.
• People need to be kept from revolting (Kholsa, Giridharadas) In other times, our present
  condition would be seen as the need for a genuine reset for humanity and the Earth. The
  challenge of those with power now is how to keep them from political action, or other action
  that challenges a model that perhaps depends on more deception than any in history. Few
  people understand how multiple organizations are updating on a real-time basis their mood,
  thoughts, interactions, health, and reactions; and with that additional knowledge experimenting
  on them through language, sound, and electrical manipulation that influences branding, music,
  packaging, interactions, etc. in addition to the very functioning of their bodies. Humanity is
  being managed for what is determined to be socially (and undemocratically) best. The long-time
  prophecy of leaders at Davos is now true.

Were the major players interested and acting in their self-interest (or that of the people), we would
have real dialogue, even at the highest levels. The insurance industry would have fought industries
promoting deteriorating food quality (including processed and genetically modified crops banned in
dozens of countries.) Everyone would have taken on banking, with its risky products and wealth-destroying bubbles. The healthcare industry would have eviscerated technology, given over 10,000
studies of harm. Everyone would have wanted to partner with the corporate corruption fighting activist,
not the impoverished village woman (and have been proclaiming the truth: microlending is less effective
than Communism as a development strategy).

The Clinton Global Initiative –where some of the largest corporate criminals are lauded for their
generosity --- would not have taken on the energy of United Nations week. The MarketWorld circuit
would have collapsed (see above). The Ted Talks would only feature the “losers” who actually question
the exploitation and harm of the system, not hacks of small effect (like rebranding “stand up straight!”
to solve gender inequity). And all the past decades talk of innovation, the creative class, etc. would have
been shown to be a sham for blaming the poor and suffering, and seeking to fix them with a few dollars
and their risking the little they have.

This economy of control now depends on:

1. Plans for 20,000 satellites, thousands to millions of antennae, and more than a trillion internet
of things things;
2. Secretive dossiers, where nothing is forgotten, not even the rumors end (Zuboff) updated on a
real-time basis with mood, thoughts, interactions, and reactions;
3. Experimentation, manipulation, and coercion through language manipulation, exploitation of
emotion, and chat influencing branding, music, packaging, etc.

This even when surveillance capitalism has been known to create significant dangers for humanity:

1. 52 Internet of Thing data scientists and specialists interviewed between 2012 and 2015
expressed concern. “Nearly every interviewee regarded the inevitability rhetoric as a Trojan
horse for powerful economic imperatives, and each one of them lamented the lack of any
critical discussion of these assumptions.” (Zuboff) Even then senior staff described the internet
of things as “all push, no pull,” a “internet of everything” given no limit on monetizable smart
sensor tech, and connecting everything from ground moisture temperature to one’s liver.

2. Two notable Senate reports – The Lilienfeld report and Church Committee Hearings document
relevant harms, offering a strong rebuke for the use of electromagnetic targeting and human
experimentation.

Worth noting also, is in America, where the internet moguls have forecast incredible advanced in longevity, an end to infectious disease, a growth in linguistic fluency, global creativity, etc. we have seen a 20-year low in life expectancy, hundreds of thousands of excess deaths, and severe issues of concentration and brain degeneration.

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