> Past performance is not a guarantee of future success. True. I am still of the belief humans will continue to human. If an uprising of billions vs millions

> Past performance is not a guarantee of future success. True. I am still of the belief humans will continue to human. If an uprising of billions vs millions lose, the "elite" would also no longer be "elite". While I have no data, other than observation, the "elite", imo, need the validation of their status more than those who have none and gave it to them in the first place. If they do something so brash as to rid the world of these unwashed masses, they have no one left to rise above. I don't see them all of a sudden becoming great members of this new society; they wanted to own society, not be a citizen in it. How that wouldn't lead to self-elimination at that point is hard to imagine - thus a needed evolution of the species (even if that's extinction and another hominid group later inheriting the leftover mess)