Tessa Fights Robots

Tessa Fights Robots

The Mind of a Global Owner: Does Depopulation Make Sense?

A thought experiment and historical parallels.

Tessa Lena
Sep 09, 2022
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This story is a thought experiment  in gruesome things. Confession: I don’t even remotely enjoy writing about things that dark. In fact, I would much rather not even think about them at all. Eugenicist “population control” is not a small deal, history is proof that genocides occur, and due to the gravity and the ugliness of the beast, when we ponder it, we need to stay grounded in our souls and not be afraid.  On my end, I try to make a clear distinction between what I know and what I don’t.

So no, I don’t know what exactly is in the heads of the people who “own” BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street. They don’t report their inner workings to me—and I am blessed for that. There are policy papers, reports, public statements, memoirs, and the general method of observing and connecting the dots. This is all we have.  But unfortunately, “a case for depopulation” very much exists in the minds of the proverbial psychopaths—and they do have the means to pull it off. “Unthinkable” is a good arg…

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