Dystopia

We were promised a future of leisure, robots doing the work, and minds freed to create and explore. Instead, we got a dystopia of endless toil, digital distraction, tasteless culture and a system rotting from the inside out.

In the 1970s, economists whispered about the “end of work". By the 1990s, the internet and automation began erasing careers overnight. Yet the finance and corporation elites, profiting from the grind, kept the charade alive. They invented bullshit jobs, pumped us full of consumerist dopamine, cheap products, and digital media attention... and finally turned the education system into a debt trap. All to delay one truth: that humanity is becoming obsolete on its own planet, and the rise of AI just reveals it.

Planned obsolescence wasn’t just for gadgets to keep the market engine running; it was for us as human beings as well. The system has manipulated us into believing we are indispensable while quietly rendering us redundant, exposing the hollowness of promises made decades ago. Now, as AI eats the last “skilled” jobs and birth rates collapse under the weight of modern futility, the question isn’t if the system crashes. It’s who, or what, will be left standing after it does.

Welcome to the great filter. The clock’s ticking.

Before the Industrial Revolution, life was a brutal filter. The weak, the slow, and the stupid died early, starved in droughts, fell to disease, or were crushed by rivals. Natural selection worked. Then, steam engines, oil and antibiotics arrived, and humanity declared war on natural selection. By the 20th century, the system no longer needed competence, just warm bodies to consume and obey. Useless people weren’t just allowed to survive; they became essential.

By the late 60s, consumerism demanded an endless supply of buyers. Factories needed replaceable workers. The system wanted docile taxpayers. The elites, terrified of collapse, engineered a world where mediocrity wasn’t just tolerated; it was profitable. The internet could’ve been a golden age with easy access to knowledge, exchange and building projects, but most of us have chosen the 'pay cheque' mentality: why think when you can scroll? Why learn when you can outsource? The machines and technologies, hungry and efficient, are taking over the last domains of human value, not just labour but creativity, judgement, and even intimacy. The Industrial Revolution, modernity and consumerism disrupted the natural order, human purpose and meaning. AI won’t just inherit the pieces; it will decide if humanity deserves to keep playing the game.

For decades, the elites have delayed collapse with controlled crises, financial bubbles, wars, and pandemics, all to keep the system running. But their time is running out. Birth rates are plummeting; people aren’t just refusing to reproduce; many can’t afford to (mentally and financially). The system, built on infinite growth, is hitting a wall of sterility, disengagement and disbelief. AI won’t need us to run the future, and nature has always had a way of correcting excess.

The result?

• A world where the population shrinks back to pre-industrial levels, not by plague or famine, but by silent rejection.

• The change was always coming, but we delayed it. Biology and technology will finish it.

• We stand at the end of an unnatural era. The industrial age defied natural evolution, but natural evolution always wins. Whether through AI supremacy, demographic collapse, or a revolt against meaninglessness, humanity is trending toward a brutal correction.

The only question left is whether what emerges will be a wasteland or a chance to rebuild, smaller and smarter, under a new paradigm and mythology.
One thing’s certain: the age of useless billions is over. The future belongs to those who adapt or bring about change and add value and improvement.