Spitballing here but I suspect the economy is already a form of alien intelligence that serves itself as a primary goal & survival of humans is secondary at best. And as it becomes more and more digitised it will be entirely taken over by agentic AIs who are better than any human at maximising their own capital (& thus power) in that environment, and humans will become diminishingly able to influence or extract value from that economy. So to survive in any meaningful way, we need to reinvent a more human-centric economy that capital maximising digital agents cannot speed-run & overtake.