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System Failure

Post author By G
Post date Dec 19, 2025
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In a globally integrated system there is nowhere for costs to go. Automation and scale do not eliminate thermodynamic, material, or social costs; they only displace them within the same closed system. This is critically unsustainable because continued growth depends on offloading costs that can no longer be externalised, forcing the system to consume its […]

Philosophy

Unsustainable Cost of an Automated Economy

Post author By G
Post date Dec 14, 2025
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Consider artificial intelligence and capitalism together, not as separate forces but as mutually reinforcing dynamics, where automation becomes the primary mechanism for enforcing scale-dependent profitability. Technologically mediated commercial systems were always likely to converge on something like this. AI is not an aberration. It is a natural extension of a system that prioritises speed, scale, […]