In Cloud Atlas, Sonmi-451 is manufactured for service, spent for utility, and discarded without mourning. Mitchell didn’t invent that system—he refined it.
Today, we don't fabricate clones; but we might fabricate expendability:
gig workers without security
algorithms extracting attention
customers mined for data rather than served
ecosystems depleted for next-quarter EPS
Every modern corporation claims “customer obsession” while many exhibit extraction obsession:
“How much can we get before they notice we’ve stopped giving?”
This is the quiet corporate nihilism at the heart of the corpocracy:
growth without gratitude
efficiency without empathy
dominance without duty
The true inverse of Sonmi-451’s world is not socialism nor technocracy—it is humanistic capitalism: capital aligned to meaningful ends, value created with dignity-preservation built into the operating philosophy.
Business should be a covenant, not a drain.
The Financial Takeaway:
If the model works only when people are disposable, the model is disposable. Value creation is not value extraction: build systems where workers and users ascend, not just margins.
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