It's 2023 and we still have a mind blowing wealth gap problem.
Less than 1% of humans own more than 99% of the global wealth produced by all of humanity. It seems to me that I’m getting poorer and poorer and Bill Gates is getting richer and richer. I’m using Bill as an example here because unlike Elon Musk, he’s the bad guy in every story, but like for real.
One thing hasn’t changed though. The business model of the greedy rich:
Create problem => Sell solution
When Bill Gates started Microsoft Windows… well, this is actually false, he did not start anything because he didn’t actually create anything, he bought DOS, it became MS-DOS, he bought a license for Unix and ruined it. Why? Well, Bill invested in a lot of other software companies, but what was the first thing he did with Unix, DOS and all the software he re-sold?
Well, let’s take Unix for example, it was a perfect operating system, similar to what Linux distributions are today. These are operating systems that could not be hacked or get infected with viruses and never had any errors or Blue Screens of Death.
Users would buy it and never had to worry about a next version or any updates. So that was bad for Bill’s idea of business.
This is why he intentionally created backdoors and vulnerabilities in the operating system before he slapped the Windows logo on the Floppy Disk and then the CDs he was selling to everyone.
If Bill would have adopted the Unix philosophy, similar to Linux philosophy it would be incompatible with the greed and deceit based model of business he had in mind.
If the Unix code would be left untouched or improved upon, users would never have any reasons to buy more from Bill. So he thought, if the operating system works good maybe 80% of the time, I could sell new versions and fixes to my users because of the sheer frustration they would build up using his OS.
So he started creating viruses and buying anti-virus companies. Problem > Solution?
I mean who came up with the idea of a computer virus in the first place anyway? I’m not saying it was Bill, but he was a great contributor in this villain space too.
So nowadays, because nobody bought his Windows CD for so many years, as crackers would make all Windows versions available for free to the world, Bill has had it with the world and he switched from virtual viruses to real viruses. So he had Covid vaccine factories ready, way before the Plandemic Marketing Campaign officially went viral with the help of his friends at the World Health Organization and was joyously inaugurated by mainstream politicians everywhere who knew nothing about viruses today, just as they didn’t know anything about computer code back in Bill’s good ol’ days.
So the old “Create problem and sell solution” trick doesn’t seem to fade on us people.
I'm not sure if you really understand how huge this “Create problem and sell solution” situation is for humanity and for the biosphere. Or should I call it by the engineering industry definition: Planned Obsolescence ?
As a species, do we really understand the ramifications of this greed based global behaviour long term? No, but we should!
There is a lot of relevant truth in the movie Matrix, especially in the scene where agent Smith reveals our real nature and classifies us as viruses and not mammals.
We are consuming the earth's resources many times faster than they can regenerate. This applies to everything! From cutting down forests, to polluting rivers, seas, oceans, the atmosphere... to destroying the surface of the planet, mining the earth for minerals and metals that cannot regenerate fast enough for us to not go extinct after we run out.
We are so asleep on these resource issues and lack of circular economy models and corporations (I mean the people running them) don't seem to care about if we go extinct or not, to say even less for all life in the miracle named Earth’s biosphere. They would rather decimate the population than slow down their resource wars, just so they can create more gadgets and AI systems to sell to us. I mean, we multiply like viruses anyway, right? So there’s no shortage of humans.
We humans consume and throw "away", but, where is this Away? Is this “Away” another planet? Or is this the planet we are responsible for?
Humans are supposed to be custodians of Terra, guardians of mother Earth, not the viruses that killed the host. We are so immature as a species, we are not even a level 0 civilization according to Michio Kaku - an American theoretical physicist, activist, futurologist, and popular science writer. He is a professor of theoretical physics in the City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center.
But what does this have to do with Web 3?
Well, Web 3 is the period of the Internet we as web developers are working for right now in 2023. And since we are so dependent on the Web for everything today, it’s as important as everything!
Web 2 or “Social” Media is going down. Their revenue is plummeting, they are firing thousands and thousands of employees. Advertising as a monetization model is extremely corrupted in Web 2 media. They are spying on us to exploit our emotions and their excuse is that it’s for a “Better advertising experience”.
Web 2 is treating users as products, as resources. Just like the AI treated humans in the Matrix movie. Concerned now?
These Web 2 corporations are siphoning our collective energy and giving nothing back to our species or to the biosphere. They just want more and more…
The level of greed manifested at the tip of this hierarchy called Surveillance Capitalism is at an "Extinction level".
Their AI systems may very well eventually turn into a singularity that will enslave us.
Well, maybe not today, or even in 100 years. But the pattern is already there.
Do you care about life on this planet, about your children?
Because, while the impact we have on our environment may not be obvious to everyone, since our life expectancy is very low and since one generation does not see the effects of our species level collective behaviour, a few generations pass and we see it clearly.
How many more Plandemics do we need to accept to compromise our immune systems with ARN vaccines so that we remain slaves to Big Pharma "solutions" and how much more financial enslavement through debt do we have to put up with to wake up?
How much more evidence do we need to take action and realize that yes, we are in a crisis? And no, we are not hopeless, we have solutions!
Here is one you can support right now:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-end-of-social-media/reft/9515746/w3a
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