..and the reason why insane amounts of money are being thrown at it. Their end game is to replace a third or more of the economy with a subscription fee. The ultimate robber barons.
..and the social and economic consequences be damned.
They want a world where individual rank-and-file workers and customers are removed completely from the business equation and abandoned to fend with zero resources, where nobody has a job and nothing is free.
It just dawned on me that they're trying to create a Siege Mentality.
Sure, in the walls is terrible, but if they leave then they'll have to experience the apocalypse with no input.
with the further codicil that we are all meant to understand that that is the *natural* state of things
(as though any human condition is not artificially and socially constructed)
and that any attempt to disrupt it is not just a crime against their wallets but also against God