Is decentralization the way out? Money is just a guise; the purpose of capital is to control thought.

Money is not only a tool for trading, but also a means of control. Tech giants are not looking for profit, but control of ideas, and only decentralization can reverse this situation. This article is based on an article written by The Smart Ape and compiled, compiled and contributed by Foresight News. (Synopsis: Hyperliquid analysis: the future pillar of decentralization, or another high-valuation bubble?) Perp DEX's “invisible hand”: How does centralized capital manipulate decentralized markets? I often hear people say, “Big tech companies are just chasing profits.” The person who said this obviously did not understand anything. The deeper truth is that these giants are not chasing revenue, but control of patterns, narratives and ideas. Bernard Arnott, one of the richest men in the world, once said: “I am now $2 billion in debt, which is more peaceful than when I was 50,000 dollars in debt.” For them, money is not an end in itself, but a tool. If a company loses money every year, but gains direct control over its users, including their choices, their values, their beliefs, then it is not a failure at all. It can make a good profit from the only really important “control”. The Mirage of Money We are the only ones who still see money as the ultimate goal. But at a higher level, money is nothing more than a tool. More precisely, a control tool. Money doesn't always play this role. In its early form, it was merely a means of exchange for fruits, vegetables, goods. Then there is salt and spices, which are easier to exchange. Later came precious metals, silver coins and gold coins, which had real value because of their rarity and utility. Until then, money represented real value. But then we turn to paper money, which has no intrinsic value in itself; Later, it moved to something more abstract: digital currency, on-screen data, which can be printed infinitely with a single click. This latest form gives those who control its creation free access to real resources such as water, food, land, and now even time and the human mind. So when a company loses money on the books, but gains your attention, your thoughts, your actions, it loses nothing. It is exchanging false money for real human resources. Data is about control, not just profit Truth be told, the numbers behind OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are crazy. But what's even crazier is that these numbers are meaningless if the goal is profit; They only make sense if the goal is dominant. OpenAI generated approximately $4.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2025, with an annualized run rate of $10 billion. Sounds lucrative to you? But it burned $2.5 billion in the same period. For every dollar it makes, it costs $1.60. It has also raised an additional $8.3 billion in capital, possibly expanding to $40 billion. Investors know it's not profitable, but they don't care. Why? Because the goal is not short-term returns, but to lock the world's AI layer within the OpenAI ecosystem. OpenAI even signed a multibillion-dollar deal with AMD, not only to buy chips, but also to ensure long-term GPU supply, and even acquired up to 10% of AMD. That's vertical domination, controlling the raw computing power on which all future AI depends. In the case of AI, only 3 or 4 companies completely dominate model training. Building these models requires hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars of computing power and data. Smaller players can't compete, which gives these giants a disproportionate influence over how each AI “thinks” and “speaks.” @MTorygreen calls this an AI monoculture: “When everyone uses the same few models, online content converges to the same tone, style, and perspective.” In addition to filtering out diversity, the system creates a single way of thinking. It feels like they don't want people to think for themselves, they don't want people to have personal ideas or independent opinions. They want you to follow the narrative and be like a docile sheep. When you control the model, you control which sounds are amplified, which sounds disappear, and which ideas become “truths.” You don't even need to ban speech, and many ideas simply never appear because datasets and model filters erase them before they are born. How technology shapes what we see, think and believe Because most digital services rely on the same minority model, the entire online conversation becomes homogeneous. The tone, arguments, and even what is “acceptable” are beginning to match the values coded by these companies. If a model is optimized as “safe,” “risk-averse,” or “politically correct,” then dissident voices or unconventional tones are softened, purified, or removed entirely. This is a soft review of the design. Tory Green explains perfectly that we are no longer interacting with a chaotic, wild Internet, but “an echo chamber that echoes corporate approval responses.” Small developers trying to introduce new languages, minority perspectives, or cultural nuances don't have access to the same computing power, data, or financial power. In short, they don't have access to unlimited money printed out of thin air. The world we end up in is not a world of many ideas, but a world of many mirrors reflecting the same idea. The only way out is decentralized AI If the problem is centralized control of models, computing power, and data, then the solution must reverse it. The only way out is decentralization, including the decentralization of computing power, models, and governance. Imagine a network of GPUs spread across thousands of contributors, rather than controlled by any single cloud or company. Projects like @ionet are already building this vision, with the community sharing computing resources for independent developers to use. Rather than relying on a giant “one-size-fits-all model,” each community, culture, and language can train its own model to reflect its values and worldview. Tory Green argues exactly that, arguing for thousands of unique, community-driven models, rather than an AI monoculture. These community models will be transparent, auditable, and governed by users themselves, so that bias and censorship cannot be hidden in the black box of the enterprise. Of course, it's not easy. Competing with these giants requires access to the same resources without the backing of unlimited capital, which is almost impossible. But there is another force, and that is collective awakening. If enough people understand what's at stake and unite their authentic resources, energy, creativity, and collaborative spirit, they can build something greater than money. It's difficult, yes. But it is necessary. Because if we don't, this system will only get worse, depleting more and more of the world's real resources. We have reached a point where even our free will and imagination are being sucked in. If we don't fight back now, what will be the next resource they will take? Related reports After the interest rate cut, the decentralized contract platform rose sharply “HYPE hit a new high”, CZ pushed ASTER also skyrocketed 0G Binance rose more than 500%: dual-track strategy to build the next generation of decentralized AI infrastructure Decentralization breaks through the government…