> Realizing that is the first step to move forward in this new world.

Right, we've become disposable. Up until the computer era we were part of the equation. We went to war, to vote, and we paid taxes - making ourselves useful for state and capital.

Now, they don't need us anymore. We are a burden for the state (universal basic income) and capital plays its own game (high frequency trading).

Samuel Butler was right in Erewhon (1872): "Advertising is the way we grant power to the machine"

AI is powered by advertising, by the data we voluntarily feed into the machine. For the false reward of shining the ego.

Yes, we must admit, as a specie we are highly disappointing. Instead of lifting ourselves we've created a monster above us.