Who is Thanos? - On the inevitability of our downfall. 0 ▲ Maaike Brinkhof's blog 3 hours ago · 12 min read2418 words · Culture · hide · 0 comments Infinity Gauntlet, late-stage capitalism edition:Space Stone - let's go to Mars instead of caring for the planet we have. Climate change, who is she? Let's build some more data centers. Mind Stone - let's develop a hallucination machine and call it "intelligent". Drain people of their skills and critical thinking abilities, what can go wrong. Reality Stone - let algorithms rule the online world, so people get stuck in a misinformation bubble and fill the void in their soul with shopping. What even is reality? Power Stone - let's concentrate the wealth among a few awful people and let them get away with every evil plan they concoct.Soul Stone - let's sacrifice people in the machine for more power and wealth for these awful people.We have a couple of assholes on our planet being pretty close to Thanos-like powers. In case you didn't watch any Marvel movie, Thanos is an evil guy who collects all the infinity stones so he can put them in the infinity gauntlet and wipe out 50% of all life… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.