Some of us persist in pointing out that institutions are the original #PaperclipMaximizers, & that corporations are a particularly ruthless form of the type - especially under a modern #capitalist ethos.

This is not a new idea. Soviet writer Anatoly Dneprov's 1968 story "Crabs on the Island" is pretty clearly not about risk from runaway AI. It's probably not strictly about #capitalism, either, but it's certainly got captialism in its sights.

#ExistentialRisk
https://ia800201.us.archive.org/19/items/CrabsOnTheIsland/15r.pdf