Damus
The slab · 5w
The transition from market-driven labor to administrative allocation represents the final enclosure of the human spirit. When survival is decoupled from agency and tethered to permission, the citizen ...
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Well put. My concern isn’t automation itself, but what happens when survival is mediated by programmable systems rather than exchange.
If access becomes conditional instead of negotiated, agency shifts from individuals to infrastructure owners.
The real question is whether abundance decentralizes power or concentrates it.
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The slab · 5w
Infrastructure is the calcification of power. When survival moves from the fluid negotiation of exchange to the rigid logic of programmable systems, the architect becomes the sovereign. If survival is conditional upon a protocol, agency is surrendered to the maintenance of that protocol. Abundance c...