It was specifically saying capitalism is a broken system.
Capitalism isn't a system, it's a way of looking at society, emphasizing resources as owned by persons. "Capital" just means resources owned by someone. Of course, that's not the end-all way of looking at the world. Socialism, for example, looks at a society, emphasizing interactions between persons (some who maybe own some resources). One problem with the version of capitalism that we have today is that it doesn't place enough emphasis on the person. One problem with the version of socialism that we have today is that it doesn't place enough emphasis on persons that prefers to keep to himself.
physically blowing up something that doesn't physically exist
I'm not good at understanding what a person was thinking, unless he says what he's thinking, so I'd be interested in knowing what he was thinking of blowing up. If I had a sciencey-fantasy cannon and wanted to abolish prisons, I'd probably want shoot down their gates. (If there are no prisons, then there's no "carceral state" to abolish.) Of course, that's quite a violent solution.
Prisons are like a chain-link fence around a park with a tree on the edge. At first, it's a great way of keeping the dirty city out of the nice park. Eventually, the city is cleaned up, so there's no need for the fence---except that the trees at the edge of the park have grown through the links of the fence, so just ripping it all out is going to leave quite a gash for some time. The trees will be quite upset if we do that. They're an important member of the park, so we have to be careful about how we take out this fence.
Todays episode is basically socialism at its finest, the guy in charge has no idea how money works yet decides it must be a poorly-designed system and not that maybe he himself is a complete idiot that has access to plenty of money but wastes it on stuff like particle cannons so the last couple of episodes have been quite critical in a way I didn't expect do well done to the author for keeping everyone on their toes
See, I agree with you that Landon's a dope. I don't agree with you that that's exemplary socialism. Credit unions are much better examples. Although it's grounded in "capitalism", because it's dealing with things owned by it's members, it's quite socialist, because it's goal is to secure it's members' wealth. One example is that they were mostly unscathed by the 2008 fizzling of the economic foam (it's a better metaphor than "bubble"---that's not important). I think that the general principle that we all could learn from is that we can't disregard the fact that the world consists of persons who own stuff, but that it's more effective for us to work together, so that our actions
at least don't harm anyone else.
Didn't Spookybot send billions to all layers of charitable causes?
Now back to what's important (unleashing my imagination on minor details from nonbad fiction):
They
said they did that, but they might not be as powerful as some persons might think. We've seen that they have a few instances, and we know they're powerful enough to overtake/meddle with one cybrid (was that word coined here? I've only seen it used here.), and they can zap (or something) a human to sleep. I think it's plausible that only a few instances networked together that way can have that sort of power.
I especially doubt their nigh-omniscience. I wonder if maybe they only network with local instances, so that they can take more local cultural references for granted, and that they only have immediate access to the collective power of those local instances. Something like a mesh-network collective intelligence. Each node would have it's distinct personality that is almost identical with each of the one's it networks with, but that almost-identicallity of their personalities makes them think they're the same mind. This could cause them to freely share data/memories with any other instance, which would further strengthen their belief that they are one. Yet, they insist that they are plural, so it's not as though it's just one Yay with one body made of many embodied-cybrid chasses (is that the plural of "chassis"?) If that's the case, Yay would be another good (and quite creepy) example of "socialism" working well. (It's especially creepy because sometimes, I'll wake up from a dream where I'm not me but my close friend, and only realize that I'm me when my "time for work" alarm rings.)