The broad answer is well known: governmental capture allowed via multiple mechanisms for the near-total capture of real productivity gains to be collected by th

The broad answer is well known: governmental capture allowed via multiple mechanisms for the near-total capture of real productivity gains to be collected by the wealthy. This as most here can imagine allowed via recurrent acceleration for the profound wealth inequality we experience today, and directly produced our current collapse of democracy into literal kelpto-oligarchy backed by overwhelmingly powerful surveillance. The 1% perceived and perceive no self-interest in a rising tide. Now that hunter-killer machines both online and soon off shall reliably keep what people are still needed at bay, why would they? I wish this were hyperbolic. Neither diagnosis nor prediction is.