Corporations Don't Want Employees
Imagine you alone can control robots and grow animals(including humans) in a lab. You could use robots for specific tasks and use humans as sexual slaves or worker slaves. This could happen if there are &#x27;designer babies&#x27;, where you could create very beautiful women and have them as your slaves. Or you could create a race of slave super-humans(merge humans with mechanoids), which would fulfill certain tasks you gave them. Do you think in that case you would need some consumers buying from your companies? Of course not.<p>Now imagine few thousand people like you. Lets say those on Forbes list. Now, instead of one guy being in control, you have few thousand of them each specializing in certain area. One could make sexual slaves. Another one could have an army working to make video games. Third one would have slaves making clothing, houses or vehicles and so on... Those few thousand people could create a B2B economy with few thousand oligarchs trading among themselves. What about the rest? They could be eliminated very easily by certain viruses or through some other means. Humans could still exist, but they would be &#x27;designed&#x27; or genetically modified to fit specific purposes.<p>Just remember genocides, slavery, nukes, wars etc. Nothing is off the table. The stakes are very high. Those few oligarchs would live like trillionaires, so they would probably be ready to do anything. I mean people today kill each other for $1k, imagine what could be done when stakes are this high. Contrary to popular belief, history doesn&#x27;t follow the direction of progress of any animal species. It&#x27;s fun until it&#x27;s not (dinosaurs and many other extinct species).
This situation could trigger wars and genocides we haven&#x27;t seen before. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s going to be cupcakes and rainbows. People in 19th century were very optimistic about the future, imagining all kinds of utopias, but what was 20th century? Huge wars, mass genocides, diseases etc. I am not optimistic and don&#x27;t think there is some kind of an ark of human progress where people will reach utopia. It will be change, but no progress&#x2F;regress.