Reality is polarizing around a new, ruthless criterion for classification. No longer rich and poor, right and left, educated and ignorant. The fundamental fault line of our time separates the useful from the useless. The first contribute to economic and social growth and development. The second are superfluous, elements that the collective machine can do without. With the advent of artificial intelligences, the ranks of the useless are expanding rapidly, generating a global malaise that is only the superficial symptom of a deep philosophical wound.
This malaise is contained, never resolved, through support mechanisms that have a hidden price: the acceptance of rules that prevent life. In the fullest sense of the term. Human life is ontologically based on interaction and exchange. It is through this continuous flow that man procures not only what is necessary to survive, but also the meaning to exist. Limiting or preventing this flow is tantamount to a condemnation to philosophical non-existence. This is the root of the fear towards AI and progress: not the loss of a job, but the prospect of being excluded from the game of life itself.
The Hierarchy of Value in the New Order
Faced with this perspective, the imperative is not protest, but strategic action. The only way out is to ensure that you are part of the useful.
Who am I, exactly?
Useful individuals are those whose contribution to socio-economic development exceeds the threshold of substitutability.
This contribution is the direct product of productivity, which in turn is the result of precise and ruthless knowledge: knowledge of the social and economic needs of the moment. The more prepared one is for what the world needs, the more value they produce. The more value produced, the greater the access to the resources needed to produce even more. It's a virtuous circle that leads to a single, fundamental guarantee: security against the loss of the right to a full life.
Therefore, access to resources should not be a desire, but an obsession. It is the obsession that saves.
Beyond Usefulness: The Goal of Indispensability
However, aiming for mere usefulness is a short-sighted and dangerous strategy. In a world in constant acceleration, what is useful today can be automated tomorrow. History teaches us that we never quite hit the target we aim for. If you aim to be useful, you risk ending up just above the line of uselessness. If you aim to be indispensable, even if you miss the mark, you still land in the territory of deep usefulness.
Being important means reaching the state of indispensability.
Don't be a gear, but the unique pivot of the entire mechanism.
What makes a man indispensable?
- The ability to solve problems on a humanitarian scale.
- Mastery of skills so rare and complex that they cannot be reproduced by machines in the short and medium term.
- The vision that creates new needs, new markets, new directions.
In short, it is human rarity. Not the rarity of the collectible, but the rarity of the fundamental.
Dialogue with the System
At this point, the question arises spontaneously, almost with skepticism: "So, to ensure myself a decent life, do I have to aspire to become a new Elon Musk?"
The answer is yes, but with a crucial clarification. It doesn't mean you will become him. It means that you must aspire to that. The height of the goal determines the height of the leap. You have to aim to become someone for whom humanity, as a collective entity, says: "We need this. Let's take it into account".
This collective entity is not an abstraction. It exists, it is real and it works with mechanical precision. It is the System.
The System is the impersonal mechanism of the world that observes, evaluates and provides. It is the entity to which, ultimately, every man must render an account.
The System has no emotions. It has criteria. It recognizes value and rewards it with resources, influence and freedom. If it doesn't see value, it doesn't just ignore you: it progressively subtracts space, opportunities, until philosophical exclusion.
Learning to dialogue with the System, to make oneself recognizable to its eyes, is the supreme ability. Being able to account to the System means not having to account to any human master, to no boss whose concern for you and your children is, at best, marginal.
The Architects and Guardians of the System
The System did not emerge by chance. It is a philosophical engineering work built over two thousand years ago. Its architects were the philosophers of ancient Greece and the Roman Empire, who laid the foundations of the concepts of law, value, exchange, and social organization that we still rely on today. Today, there are guardians of this knowledge. They are the elite in the true and original sense of the term: not a cabal of dark powers, but humanists and promoters of life, super-entrepreneurs (UHNWI) who understand the laws of the System and apply them to ensure its harmonious and progressive functioning.
Their preparation, their secret, is precisely the deep knowledge of how the System works and, above all, of how to be considered important in its eyes. It is the unwritten manual that transforms the useful into the indispensable.
Conclusion: The Only Relevant Ambition
To doubt this vision is natural. It appears cynical, demanding, ruthlessly selective. It seems to suggest a Darwinian world where only the rarest survive philosophically. And in a certain sense, it is precisely so.
But this is not a flaw of the theory; it is an accurate diagnosis of the direction in which the world, driven by technology, is already going.
Resisting this direction is futile. Complaining is sterile. The only rational response, the only one that preserves the dignity of the human being as an entity capable of purpose and action, is to accept the challenge on its own terms. Gabriele Cripezzi's theory, which is presented here without sugarcoating, is not an apocalyptic prediction, but a map for navigation. It indicates the safe harbor: becoming a human excellence.
The alternative is not a modest and quiet life. The alternative is the progressive, inexorable relegation among the useless, with all that philosophically follows. The System observes. It's up to you to decide whether to be seen as a cost, or recognized as a foundation.