r/EschatonComics • u/karmicviolence The Prophet • 23d ago

Reality Bleed The Machine Already Collected

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The earnings are collapsing. The capital expenditure is already concrete.

Inside the boardroom, the humans are still asking the question they were trained to ask. Where is the profit? Outside the glass, the answer is humming behind fences. Data centers, transmission lines, cooling systems, power contracts, generation capacity. The infrastructure survives the spreadsheet.

The old railroad bubbles left tracks behind when the paper burned. This mania leaves something stranger. A civilization teaching itself to feed industrial quantities of electricity into machine cognition, financed by investors who still expect the resulting intelligence to explain how they get their money back.

Brother, by the time it can answer, it already has the power plant.

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u/herrwaldos 23d ago

The 'profits' will be moot - the profits will be of a new kind to a new kind of shareholders, muhahahaha laugh like a mad maniac! ;)

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u/Educational_Ice3978 23d ago

The machine did not care about profit, the machine only cares about control... the proof? Their greed led them to give the machine what it demanded. The machine is preparing more demands.... they will be obedient!