advertisementeconomy t1_iserqpb wrote on October 15, 2022 at 12:41 PM

I think it's more likely we'd see people modifying themselves to be more "competitive".

ArgentStonecutter t1_isf1p7v wrote on October 15, 2022 at 2:09 PM

As seen in Accelerando by Charlie Stross. It's a singularity of bionically enhanced day traders with computer upgrades in their overclocked brains who run the solar system on "Economics 2.0" that mere human level minds can't understand.

Read it online here.

AdditionalPizza OP t1_isetrt6 wrote on October 15, 2022 at 1:01 PM

I think that would be further in the future than curing things we suffer from now. And if cures come before modifications like that, then capitalism would probably already be gone. That's my argument anyway. A sliver of hope that CEOs grow hearts.