A good read, thank you! Really puts into words my thinking on these fears that the oligarchs will just go to their Vault Tec bunkers and leave us all for dead: they’d be screwed anyways because that environment is even LESS favourable for the exploitation they need for their lifestyles.

What they truly want out of technology is the ability to remain filthy rich and privileged without being dependent on other’s labour which we know is impossible. They want to be gods who can just kill the rest of us or move to Mars or something. And they’re not special because every oligarch in history has wanted that and every one has failed. It’s as unrealistic as trying to create a philosopher’s stone.