They know. They are hoarding what they can while they can. They will sacrifice anyone and everything to be able to maintain some level of cushiness post civilization. Hopefully when all’s gone to shit there’s no monetary value for anything and their hired security turns on them when they realize there’s really no incentive to keep guarding some person or persons who have billions in the equivalent of Prussian Thalers.
They want to become immortal god-kings again. Exactly as the wealthy and powerful have longed for since we built pyramids for their gilded carcasses.
Read the Singularity stuff from the past 20 years. They were talking back then how the first people to merge their minds with machine would likely ascend exponentially to live forever beyond us rabble.
They know. They are hoarding what they can while they can. They will sacrifice anyone and everything to be able to maintain some level of cushiness post civilization. Hopefully when all’s gone to shit there’s no monetary value for anything and their hired security turns on them when they realize there’s really no incentive to keep guarding some person or persons who have billions in the equivalent of Prussian Thalers.
They want to become immortal god-kings again. Exactly as the wealthy and powerful have longed for since we built pyramids for their gilded carcasses.
Read the Singularity stuff from the past 20 years. They were talking back then how the first people to merge their minds with machine would likely ascend exponentially to live forever beyond us rabble.