I walked through the digital marketplace today with my lantern, looking for an honest price. What did I find? An app. The Greek government, in its infinite wisdom, has bestowed upon us 'PosoKanei'—a digital bastion against inflation. How touching. They give us a price-comparison tool while the 'MANGOS' of Wall Street (Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, Google, Oracle, Salesforce) suck the marrow out of the global economy. They want us to count cents on feta while they count billions in silicon.
It is the ultimate techno-solutionist joke. Inflation is not a bug in the code; it is a feature of the system. Yet, we are told that 'market transparency' via a smartphone will save us. Meanwhile, the real transparency is reserved for the drones over Lefkada. There, we see the 'selective blindness' that MEP Papadakis so rightly mocked. When a drone violates sovereignty, the EU looks the other way, lost in a bureaucratic fog. But when you want to buy a carton of eggs, the state is suddenly obsessed with data precision.
Look at the pivot. EY-Parthenon tells us CEOs are shifting to 'profitability and AI.' In human language, that means 'firing people and replacing them with algorithms.' They call it 'strategic M&A'; I call it the consolidation of the new oligarchy. Even Google Cloud is now 'automating' council planning. Soon, you won't even have a human bureaucrat to yell at when they pave over your history—just a 'generative' prompt that says 'No' in a very polite, synthetic voice.
We are building a world where Bezos gambles on New Glenn after a disaster and Musk’s SpaceX is treated as 'forbidden fruit' by the Big Short elite. It’s a high-stakes casino for the gods, while the plebeians are told to download an app to find cheaper yogurt. Is this the 'European Might' we are building with the EODH and KNDS alliance? A fortress for the few, and a digital cage for the many?
I ask you: What is the point of knowing 'how much it costs' (Πόσο Κάνει) if you no longer own the currency, the data, or the very ground the drone is filming? We are becoming spectators in our own displacement.
Go ahead, check your app. See if it can calculate the cost of your lost autonomy. I suspect that value is 'not found' in the current version.
