the current elite have a desire to perfect profit in the sense that any expense is negative, even if it is completely immoral to not expend. they dont want to get their hands dirty culling the population, so they're gonna let ai take all the jobs and throw their hands up saying "what else could we do" when everyone starves because there's no jobs.  what the people have to realize now is that they have zero economic leverage, nor will they have the ability to gain economic leverage. economic mobility in the present is nigh impossible minus the potential of virility. acquiring the technological means of production to turn a profit in this era means having billions at your disposal in the first place. the only way to prevent billions of humans from being culled in the most inhuman, bureaucratic, careless way is to literally throw bodies at tearing down infrastructure. its the only equalizer that doesn't have a dark ages type collapse, but even then, you would be destroying technology.  damned if you do, damned if you don't.  maybe nuclear holocaust ain't such a bad way to go?
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