I think you're being insufficiently pessimistic. If the future contains AGI then whoever controls the AGI will have complete dominion over everything to a degre

I think you're being insufficiently pessimistic. If the future contains AGI then whoever controls the AGI will have complete dominion over everything to a degree we've never seen before. Being monitored by VR adtech is much better than being exterminated or enslaved by whatever controls our future AI overlord.