Uses and Non-Uses - The Importance of Becoming Important

The reality is that the division between useful and useless is not a theory, but an observable mechanism. Technological advancement, particularly in artificial intelligence, is accelerating this polarization. Data shows that automation is replacing repetitive and low-value-added roles, increasing the number of individuals whose socio-economic contribution becomes marginal. This is not an opinion, but a measurable trend in structural unemployment rates and the growing dependence on support systems.

Global social malaise stems directly from this marginalization. The solutions proposed by institutional systems, such as universal basic income, are palliatives that contain the problem but do not solve it because they act on the symptom—the lack of resources—ignoring the cause: the loss of the right to a full life, understood as the ability to interact and exchange value. Those who are supported but limited in their exchanges are kept alive biologically, but their philosophical existence is denied. The fear towards AI and progress is therefore rational: it is the terror of being rendered philosophically superfluous.

Becoming useful is the minimum threshold for survival in this context. Utility is measured through productivity, which in turn is a function of knowledge of the needs of the System. The more one understands what the System needs—growth, innovation, solutions to problems on a humanitarian scale—the more real value is produced.

Access to resources is not a reward, it's the fuel needed for this process. Not obtaining it means being progressively excluded from the mechanism.

However, aiming for utility is insufficient. The principle is clear: you only reach a fraction of the goal you set for yourself. Therefore, the goal should not be to be useful, but to become indispensable. Indispensability arises from rarity. Human rarity is not an innate trait, but the result of the ability to solve complex problems and meet needs that few others can address. This transforms the individual into a unique and irreplaceable element for the System.

Elon Musk is the empirical example of this principle. It's no coincidence, he is the embodiment of an archetype: the individual who, by aspiring to change entire sectors (from space transportation to energy), has become indispensable. Aiming for that level does not guarantee reaching it, but it directs action towards excellence, pushing to "aim high to reach high." The alternative is to settle for mediocrity and become vulnerable.

The System is the ultimate entity that recognizes and rewards value. It is the impersonal and efficient mechanism inherited from Greek-Roman philosophers, perfected over millennia. It is not a metaphor. It observes, evaluates and distributes resources based on perceived contribution. To account to the System—that is, to be recognized as a source of value—is the highest freedom.

Free from having to answer to human intermediaries, to corrupt or indifferent institutional systems whose interest in your life is null.

UHNWIs and the positive elite—humanists and super-entrepreneurs—know this secret. Their wealth and influence are not a random privilege, but recognition by the System of their status as human excellences. They have understood that true security does not come from wealth itself, but from being considered indispensable for the functioning and progress of the whole.

The imperative is therefore absolute: you must aspire to become a human excellence. You must develop such rare competence and such an impact that the System says: "We need this". Only in that state of indispensability is there a guarantee of a full life, free from the fear of obsolescence and charitable sustenance. Everything else is preparation or failure.