The Paperclip Maximizer Gets Better and Better at Being Able to Do Its Bidding

The economic system is like a paperclip maximizer that gets better and better at getting all of the humans to do its bidding. It doesn't have its own ability to be an actuator to do stuff in the world outside of getting humans to do this stuff so any human that does the bidding of capitalism converts more of nature into stuff that can be put on a balance sheet. Anyone who does its bidding well will get more power within the system right they get more money which ends up meaning more influence  and then also more influence to double down on their ability to keep having that influence.