#conspiracytheories
One of the conspiracy theory themes I'm hearing a lot of lately from people both on the right, and sometimes on the left, is that there is some sort of global conspiracy by the elite to cull the population.
I doubt that. I have yet to see slavemasters that like to have less slaves.
The "elites" are whinging that population decline means less workers and less profit. They're not trying to make less of us.
There may be a bunch of them who plan to retreat to space or a bunker when their behavior finally causes a mass die-off of humans. And if they _had_ robots that could replace us all, they might.
But I think the global elite is more worried about not having more workers to make more work and buy more stuff to make sure there's more profit than last year, than they are thinking "let's get rid of all the people we exploit".
@AskTheDevil Quite so! Their wealth isn't real. Even if fiat currency wasn't useless, their actual wealth is stocks, not cash, which function on an economy model based on growth rather than usefulness. Failure to increase is the same as a loss to them, and that growth comes from us buying stuff. If we don't buy more from them than we did last year, that's a loss for them. They don't just need to exploit our labor, they need us to buy. Robots don't buy toys.
@DoveWithScales Well explained! Thank you!