The Click Bait Capitalists:
The Click Bait Capitalists: Look at this feed. Just look at it. Fifty thousand "founders" live-streaming their morning routine at 4:00 AM, all pitching the exact same AI-generated snake oil wrapped in glossy typography. I remember when being a capitalist meant you owned a factory, or at least a brick-and-mortar storefront on the corner. You needed capital. You needed inventory. Now? You just need a prompt, a ring light, and a total absence of shame. We built a world where every single human being is their own ruthless micro-corporation. My twenty-two-year-old niece doesn't talk about her passions or her art anymore—she talks about her "personal brand monetization strategy." She spent three hours yesterday optimizing a automated funnel to sell digital clutter to teenagers in Lagos who are running their own funnel schemes to buy it. It’s an endless, incestuous loop of desperate hustle, an entire planet of people trying to extract a fraction of a cent from each...