You will not escape the permanent underclass

Featured in Anthony Marigold's Magazine Non Grata

Lately I’ve been thinking about the book of Ecclesiastes.

There’s an interpretation where it’s about the futility of striving in the age of AGI.

Something like this:

imagine the smell…

It seems to me that technology trends are converging toward power and wealth concentration in the form of a modern technofeudalism being the new base case.

My thoughts on that matter were recently published in Magazine Non Grata.

You Will Not Escape the Permanent Underclass

The funniest and most optimistic outcome, of course, is that all this dooming ends up being wrong because God himself “hates these retards more than you can understand” (cf. Lukas):

And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you? And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a mans life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.