Any self-dealing institution or system that was designed to serve the people but has mutated to serve itself by exploiting the people is a “beast.” Any institution that has self-engineered runaway feedback loops in its favor is a “self-expanding beast.” In a race-to-the-bottom world, the system selects for the beasts that are the best at self-expansion—that is, the worst actors—by crowding out less malignant beasts.
Any self-dealing institution or system that was designed to serve the people but has mutated to serve itself by exploiting the people is a “beast.” Any institution that has self-engineered runaway feedback loops in its favor is a “self-expanding beast.” In a race-to-the-bottom world, the system selects for the beasts that are the best at self-expansion—that is, the worst actors—by crowding out less malignant beasts.