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Reflexión K

Vol. 18 No. 1 (2026): Enero-Junio

On equality: considerations from Argentina

DOI
https://doi.org/10.69664/kav.v18n1a556
Submitted
April 15, 2026
Published
2026-07-02

Abstract

Current inequality is no accident, but rather the structural design of capitalism in its fascist phase. While the Silicon Valley elite preaches a “Technological Republic” where software supplants the state, people face a new digital feudalism, which masks exploitation under a false meritocracy. The text denounces how corporations like Palantir are transforming Artificial Intelligence into an instrument of war and total control. Under this logic, democracy is hollowed out to make way for oligarchic domination where the “owners of the code” seek to rule without popular sovereignty. Hyperglobalization and nativism fragment the working class, by erecting walls around people while liberating capital. In the face of this “religion of software,” which sanctifies individual success, a pedagogy of insurgency is proposed. Real equality will not come from the concessions of billionaires, but from the collective organization and the social reappropriation of surplus. It is imperative to halt this feudal irrationality through a profound transformation, which recovers the ordinary, defends autonomies and puts technology at the service of human dignity.

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