I’ve believed for a long time that the worlds elites do expect to reach a point where they can live nicely with automation. It may take another 10+ years.
Putting on my tinfoil hat, I think that at that point they will view the “surplus” 6-7 billion people on earth as expendable. Some nasty engineered bug, held in deep storage, will do the trick.
IMHO they already view us as expendable. They’re just working on our replacements.
It’s why they speak of us as being a cancer on the planet and that the ideal number of us is somewhere south of 100M. Of course, all THEIR children/gkids will be in that number.
As I typed above. The elites, Gates especially, want us to be sure to ‘save the planet’ for THEIR kids by foregoing kids of our own. And if we won’t do it voluntarily they’ll do it forcibily. Gates is on the record advocating coercive and forcible sterilization.
Yeah, well, a lot of those “surplus” have guns, so those elites might be in for a nasty surprise.