The fracture is already under your eyes, even if you prefer not to see it. The world population is crystallizing into two definitive categories: the useful and the useless. The first contribute, build, push the socio-economic engine forward. The second are ballast. They are superfluous. With the advent of artificial intelligences, this second category only swells, devouring resources and generating a global malaise that is only a prelude to something deeper.
The institutional system will try to contain this existential hemorrhage with palliatives. Basic incomes, subsidies, golden cages of sustenance. But the price of that sustenance is life itself, in its purest philosophical meaning. You will accept rules that will prevent you from interacting, exchanging, competing. They will condemn you to an existence of passivity. The human eye is made of interaction and exchange; taking them away means blinding him. This is the true, visceral fear that many feel towards progress: it is not the technology itself, but the awareness of being destined for programmed obsolescence.
The imperative, therefore, is not a suggestion. It is a law of survival. You must ensure that you are part of the useful ones.
From Useful to Indispensable
But being "useful" is only the first, fragile step. It is the necessary condition for not being discarded, but it is not enough to live, in the true sense of the word.
Usefulness is measurable, replicable, and increasingly automatable. Aiming to simply be useful is like aiming not to sink in a stormy sea. It's not enough.
Since in life you never reach what you aim for, then you shouldn't aim to become useful – you must aim to become IMPORTANT.
Importance is the state of indispensability. You are not just a replaceable gear; you are the unique gear without which the entire mechanism seizes up. What makes a man indispensable? One thing only: rarity. The ability to do, to solve, to create what very few – or no one – else can do. You must become a rare element in the market of humanity.
This rarity is not born by chance. It is the direct consequence of being able to solve problems and meet needs on a humanitarian scale. It's not about being the best at work. It's about addressing needs that touch thousands, millions of people. The question arises spontaneously, and it's a question that frightens:
"Are you telling me that to ensure myself a life worth living I have to aspire to become an Elon Musk?"
The answer is yes, clear and unequivocal. This doesn't mean you will become him. It means that you must aspire to that. You must aim for the absolute top to lift yourself from mediocrity. Your goal must be to become someone for whom the world, understood as a conscious entity, says: "We need this."
Keep that in mind".
The System Observes and Judges
This entity exists. It is real, impersonal, and perfect in its functioning. It is the System, the ultimate mechanism of the world. It is not a conspiracy, it is the very ecosystem of evolved human civilization.
The System observes us and gives us what we need to do in life what we want and have to do. It is the System that man must answer to.
The System sees and provides. If it sees value in you, it recognizes your existential debt and provides you with the tools – resources, connections, opportunities – to expand it. If it doesn't see value, it not only denies you everything, but inevitably takes away from you, isolates you, excludes you from the game. Your task is to learn to answer to the System. If you succeed, you will no longer have to bow down to any human master, to any boss whose concern for you and your children is zero.
The knowledge of how this System works, and how to be recognized by it, is not public. It is the secret kept and passed down. The Ultra High Net-Worth Individuals (UHNWI), those whose assets exceed 30 million euros, are not simply lucky or skilled entrepreneurs. They are those who, consciously or unconsciously, have learned the rules of the supreme game. They are the modern heirs of a tradition that has its roots in the philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome.
The System that governs the world today was architected over two thousand years ago; only its parameters have been updated.
The Choice That Defines Everything
You are therefore facing a crossroads, perhaps the last that civilization will offer you in such a clear form.
On one side there is the road of replaceable utility, which leads to controlled subsistence and a philosophically mutilated life. On the other hand, there is the path of human excellence, of rarity, of indispensability. It is a difficult path, requiring obsessive study of the world's needs, extraordinary productivity, and an iron determination to access resources, which must become your only obsession.
The System is already observing. It is already separating. The question is not whether this process is right or wrong. The question is: on which side of the line will you choose to stand? Will you strive to become a name that the world will miss, or will you accept becoming a number of whom no one will notice the disappearance?
The time for half measures is over. You must choose. And you must do it now.