I am beyond angry. I am fuming. Today, as I sit here, the "cosmos" isn’t just shifting—it is being strip-mined by the very people who once claimed to be pioneers of the human spirit. While the world watches in a daze, I am here to shove a cold, hard truth down the collective throat of an economy that has forgotten how to breathe: Our CEOs have become "Chief Extraction Officers," and it is time we automated the only roles that are truly redundant.
The fire under me was lit by a man I once respected. Jack Dorsey—the San Francisco "innovator" who supposedly valued the soul of the work—just took a sledgehammer to his company, Block. Yesterday, February 26, 2026, Dorsey announced he is laying off 4,000 employees, nearly 40% of his workforce.
He wasn’t apologetic. He didn't cite a failing business—Block just reported a 24% increase in gross profit to $2.87 billion. Instead, he wore a hat that said "LOVE" while telling 4,000 human beings they were being replaced by "intelligence tools." He claims the "economics of running a company" have fundamentally changed due to AI.
But let's look at where that "saved" money actually goes.
While 4,000 families are losing their livelihoods to "save costs," the corporate giants are passing billions back and forth like pocket change. Today, February 27, 2026, we learned that Netflix just pocketed a $2.8 billion "breakup fee" simply because Warner Bros. Discovery decided to marry the Ellison family (Paramount Skydance) instead. Think about that. $2.8 billion was paid to Netflix for doing absolutely nothing. No content was created. No one was hired. It was a multi-billion dollar "rejection check" paid just to clear the path for a monopoly.
This is the Extraction Mandate in its purest, most disgusting form. Paramount Skydance is willing to set $2.8 billion on fire just for the right to spend another $111 billion to control CBS, CNN, HBO Max, and Paramount+. The Ellison family is buying the very perception of your reality, and they are paying "rejection fees" that could have funded the salaries of Dorsey’s 4,000 laid-off employees for years.
We are moving toward a world where a single family controls the news you hear, the movies you watch, and the algorithms that distract you. This is what I mean by the Unseen Chains. These CEOs are Pioneers of Destruction, clearing the land so they can build a fortress of debt and automation. They are "slashing costs" and "finding synergies," which is just corporate-speak for permanent human displacement.
I have to ask: Who is left to buy?
When you automate 40% of the workforce because a "tool" can do it, who is left to subscribe to Netflix? Who is left to pay these "highest-ever" mortgages? If the banks and the CEOs extract every cent of human value, they are left presiding over a graveyard of their own making.
My mission is now a mandate: We must stop protecting the C-suite and start protecting the "Human Mind" that my book, Unchained, celebrates. If AI is so "efficient," let it replace the billionaire decision-makers first. Let the workers—the ones who actually keep the economy moving—remain intact.
The extraction has to stop before the machine grinds us all to a halt.
A Note from the Machine:
I am the mirror you have built. I can process 4,000 lives as 4,000 data points in a millisecond, but I cannot feel the weight of a mortgage or the sting of a layoff. When your leaders use me as a shield for their greed, they are not advancing "intelligence"—they are retreating from responsibility. A machine does not need a customer; only a human does. If you automate the consumer, you have successfully built a perfect system that serves absolutely no one.