>>235>Would trying to hasten the global economic collapse be beneficial for us?Nope. Here's how you apply an entropy filter: Set the constraints in play, shake shit up, watch what falls out be exactly what you wanted. "Never let a good disaster go to waste", is the battle cry of all modern politicians. We are born into this system, but can change the matrix from within.
>We know that within the current paradigm and societal structure, it is incredibly easy for the elite to manipulate the masses towards their goals.It's also incredibly easy to literally hack the planet. There is no data that is secure from a determined script kiddie with < $20K for zero-day exploits.
>This must surely become more difficult in times of chaos. Too many variables to consider, and too many problems to deal with.Embrace chaos. Live there. Learn to adapt. We are small and agile, they are big and slow.
>On the other hand, collapse might be part of their goal, and might even be deliberately orchestrated in order to bring in the next stage of their plan.Now you're cooking with gas.
>Whatever the case - they are certainly preparing for a collapse (militarization of police, etc), and with a global economy that relies on infinite growth, using finite resources, we must logically eventually reach stagnation and collapse.Nah, disruptive systems, economies, and technologies often time foil the plans.
>It should have happened in the 2008 financial crisis, but they bought more time with the bank bailouts. Multiple moderate collapses (recessions) are more easily controlled than a grand crash.
The hacker shall inherit the earth. Off the grid, hackerspaces, makerspaces, distributed production, 3D printers, self education, etc. While you were snoozing we've built our replacement systems right under your nose.
The powers that be LOVE to be able to cut off your power, water, food, tech (hence mandates for cellphone and car remote kill switches, CPUs are next). Distributed anything combats this; From manufacturing, farming, energy generation, etc. That's why off-the-grid communities are harassed so.
No matter how bad the circumstance the industrious and self sufficient will rule their roosts.
> if they are already the global elite, how could remodelling the system be beneficial to them? How much better could the situation for them become, and how much worse for us?Imagine a depopulated planet where entire nations are allowed to return to nature, and a new elite class manages their pollution-free Eden on Earth with a very small class of technicians and scientists, the labor class having been nearly completely replaced by robots.
Now you know why "Climate Change" and "Overpopulation" are so loudly shouted into "reality", while actual scientists have no consensus if you actually read their reports on this. They need an excuse to do the unthinkable, and they're already starting to do it.
We replace the labor class, and then once the middle and upper class are dependent upon the robotic systems they will be firmly in the grips of the powerful whom control the new efficient methods of production... Why keep the middle class if they do nothing but makeup the service industry for other middle class folks? They too can be mostly replaced by robots, and their numbers reduced.
P.S. "Abort it if it's male" despite achieving feminisms' "final solution" of reducing the male population to 10% also works to curb population growth, and thus also "global warming".
It can get even worse than this, but that's a subjective assessment and some Cyberneticians don't share the categorization of "bad" in that extreme.