This narrative comes up a lot, back with NWO and FEMA black helicopters in the '90s all the way to the Great Reset and Davos Man in the modern day. Theodore Kac

This narrative comes up a lot, back with NWO and FEMA black helicopters in the '90s all the way to the Great Reset and Davos Man in the modern day. Theodore Kaczynski also wrote about it. While it's hard to deny there might be those who are in favor of this, it's also hard to see that such an elaborate, well-engineered plan is actually in formation. UBI? While that popular has gotten some currency in the last couple of years, in the U.S. alone it's been basically impossible to get a measly second round of one-time $2k (now 1.4k) stimulus checks out, much less a reoccurring program. Biometrics? The concept of national ID has been DOA in the U.S. for decades. Despite the use of vaccination cards, which are plain paper, it is still no more politically feasible to pursue such policies. The U.S. has a culture that's uniquely individualist and anti-centralization, and this is bipartisan- the ACLU has resisted E-Verify because of fears of the creation of an onerous national ID system. Being provided at a low level? The lack of affordable housing and the rise in visible homelessness contradicts that notion. > On the ground floor then, we will see a conflict between generations. [...] What little wealth is on the ground floor, will shift up and become owned by corporations. That is much more believable, that centralization of wealth leads to centralization of power. And we have seen this before in history, just look at the Gilded Age. But that is a very different thing from a carefully-engineered plan towards elite control. It isn't an intentional plan to squeeze out middle-class homebuyers, or to crush millennials with debt. It's simply a side effect of vast, blind, financial games. The ants are getting stomped upon by warring elephants. People need to remember Hanlon's Razor. Instead of trying to ascribe calculated malice towards the powers-that-be, remember they are simply as clueless as the rest of everyone. They've simply been playing the game to win, and continuously rewriting the rules to keep winning. In such a case, technocracy is but a side effect, not an intentional social engineering project. Gibson, not Orwell. https://www.theonion.com/the-future-will-be-a-totalitarian-government-dystopia-v-1819594281 https://www.theonion.com/the-future-will-be-a-totalitarian-g...