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Amazingly, the response of market-makers running ultrafast trading platforms that usually benefit from lightning speed was to try to slow things down. As if for altruistic reasons, they argued that the kids betting on Gamestop didn’t understand how the market works, and needed to be protected from their own bad judgment. But the real reason the markets needed to be slowed down was that the market-makers’ true customers—the billionaire hedge funds—were getting trounced.
Survival of the Richest
Douglas Rushkoff
After supper, when they weren’t too tired, neighbors would walk across the fields to visit each other. They popped corn, my friend said, and ate apples and talked. They told each other stories. They told each other stories, as I knew myself, that they all had heard before.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
As such we can extrapolate from the authoritarianism of fascism to the dominionism found in the quest to create artificial life. As 19th century Americans enacted what they believed to be God’s will in seeking conquest over nature, today’s theocratic fascists aim for mastery of the technological sphere and the creation of life in its purest form. Synthesis of artificial life would be the ultimate expression of man’s authoritarianism.
Emily F. Gorcenski
Norman Packard
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