There's also a more dystopian option (see Neuromancer or Elysium for examples): as the rich get richer they get more isolated from, and less empathetic towards,

There's also a more dystopian option (see Neuromancer or Elysium for examples): as the rich get richer they get more isolated from, and less empathetic towards, the poor. They control the information and the advanced military technology making a revolution impossible to organize, let alone win. They have long and prosperous lives on or above all the good land while everyone else is left behind in cities of rubble to fight over scraps. To me, this seems like the default future if we don't actively prevent it.