a common naive misconception among the political left is that the ruling class don't care about the poor and the marginalized, but that's not true at all. they are very interested in these people - they hate them. they don't just turn their backs on them; they deliberately go out of their way to hurt them, they devote time and money and resources to keeping them poor and marginalized and preventing anyone else from helping them, they want them all to starve and suffer and die. it's not necessarily a conscious desire, not a diabolical orchestrated conspiracy, they aren't all convening in secret to decide all of this like the legion of doom or something, it is simply their nature, they are compelled to do it because power is all that they understand.
the ruling class are so wealthy and greedy now that they see the poor and marginalized as worse than useless. in a more quaint time they would enslave them and use them for cheap labor, but even that's not worth their time anymore. why enslave the poor and marginalized in your own country and deal with all the hassles of labor laws and minimum wages and strikes and lawsuits when you can just enslave people in some distant foreign land whom you can pay even less and never have to even see or think about, or just automate the labor with machines? in a more quaint time they would exploit their desperation and sell them worthless garbage at a markup but even that's not worth their time anymore. why scam nickels and dimes from the poor and marginalized when you could be scamming rich people like investors and managers and doctors and politicians, people who actually have money to spend?
the ruling class no longer see the poor and marginalized as cattle; they see them as vermin. cockroaches. a person of inadequate means and/or divergent characteristics is an insult to them, a vulgarity, a foul stench and an eyesore. they want these people gone, exterminated, to make room for people and things that actually matter. if you think this is hyperbole, ask yourself this: why do the ruling class fight so hard to destroy things like public healthcare and public education and welfare and food stamps and subsidized housing when they don't even pay taxes and these social programs don't cost them a dime? why are the ruling class investing billions of dollars into things like fertility drugs and in-vitro fertilization and genetic screening and incessantly catastrophizing about declining birth rates in privileged and affluent populations?
it's because they believe that human society is composed of winners and losers, and they want to live in a world of winners. the losers are in the way, they are dead weight, they are holding civilization back, burdening society with their loserdom, their very existence is a blight on the world that makes progress impossible. a loser is always a loser, a loser is born a loser and will stay a loser and will eventually spawn another generation of losers. a loser is a mistake of nature that, if left uncorrected, will spread like a pestilence and doom the entire human species to a future of mundanity. at the very least, a loser is a living reminder of the limitations of humanity and that fact alone is enough to make the loser's existence intolerable. this is how the ruling class really think, this is what they really believe. just listen to donald trump, listen to elon musk, listen to peter thiel. these men are all pathological liars but when they talk about this they talk with genuine conviction, it's probably the only thing they have any genuine conviction about.
the cold indifference of the ruling class has metastasized into outright malice and resentment. the ruling class are done with disenfranchising and imprisoning and exploiting the poor and marginalized and now they are moving on to the final solution. things like artificial intelligence and genetic engineering are their insurance policy, with these technologies they believe they can finally cut the last threads of dependency between themselves and the superfluous population, free themselves from the tyranny of nature and finally be able to remake the world and the human species in accordance with their own designs. no amount of wealth is enough for them, no amount of power is enough, nothing will ever be enough because what they really ultimately want is to be god, to be the center of all of existence.
you've got to think big to understand these people, think beyond earthly ambitions. if the only people left in the world are a small number of elite genetically-engineered superhumans who manage an automated industrial sector that extracts all the available resources and produces every material good they need and they have no more rivals to compete with or subjects to rule over, then they have no reason to care about wealth or surpluses anymore and they will direct their efforts toward greater ambitions - tech research, more powerful computers and ai, more powerful energy sources, immortality, space colonization, faster-than-light travel and communication, conquering other planets, conquering the galaxy, conquering other galaxies, conquering the universe - there is no limit to their ambition. if ever they encounter anything that they don't understand, they will direct all their efforts into understanding it and conquering it to gain its power; if they are unable to understand it or conquer it and see nothing to gain from trying then they will direct all their efforts into destroying it and then they will expunge it from history and from their own memory so that it never existed at all.
wherever power and knowledge are irreconcileable, they will choose power. and the more powerful they become the more they have to expunge to maintain their sense of control, eventually expunging all things inside and outside of themselves, expunging all knowledge, expunging all matter, expunging all particles, expunging gravity and space and time, expunging all fundamental laws of physics and mathematical logic. in the end the "universe" will have/be only a single entity, a senseless and boundless and omnipotent and eternal idiot, no longer capable of thought or consciousness, only capable of one thing which is to occupy every point of a vacuum so that nothing else may ever exist in it.
>>788062All of the technologies they think they can use to arrogantly make themselves into "demigods" won't work. Like how the emperors of China used mercury to try to acheive immortality.
The ruling class is not smart or clever, but is infact much more stupid and incompetent than you realize. And all of the BS they talk about is just hype that won't a tually work.
They are not powerful, just afraid of their own deaths.