It will be hard to have Utopia if all the slave class dies. The head honchos might have to actually do manual labor.
Something they know nothing about and are unprepared to do.
Doggone those unintended consequences.
That's the single point in the escalating 'effete vs flyover' division that's always struck me as the most bizarre.
For all their supposed smarts, just how does the idiotic former expect the lights to work, the toilets to keep flushing, etc ?
To one too ignorant or lazy or 'above that', all the money in the world won't feed or house their parasitic carcasses absent a farmer or a carpenter.
So IF there's any kind of 'upside' to all this, it'll be in simply knowing, as we check out, that their own arrogance and uselessness will insure that such vermin won't be far behind us.
If we're able to sense it somehow from beyond this orb, we can look forward to enjoying some galactic-grade schadenfreude . . .
Something they know nothing about and are unprepared to do.
Doggone those unintended consequences.
ROFL
They don’t need many. Eliminate most of the people and the elites can live on the remaining stocks now in existence for a thousand years.
Just some pilots, some crews to run a refinery and a couple lawn care specialists is about all that’s required to begin.
Then, their Brave new world will cause anyone convicted of a crime to be demoted to the slave class and put to work doing manicures and such.
“It will be hard to have Utopia if all the slave class dies. The head honchos might have to actually do manual labor.”
Using the dark ages as a precedent, there will ALWAYS be minions willing to do your bidding if you pay enough, even in the middle of a plague.