I think that this is just devolving the concept of "paperclip maximizer" past the point of absurdity. As I understand it, a paperclip maximizer is a device which has some utility function that it maximizes to an extreme point that it actually ends up providing negative utility to whoever built it or society in general.

I don't see how humans doing what they want fits in there. People aren't slaves to their desires that have a mind of their own, people are the minds which make up desires and destroy them. On the other hand, a paperclip maximizer - or, I think, capital - has a singular desire, which is to make as many paperclips as possible or as much profit as possible, everything else be damned, forever.