Just channeling amoral billionaires here, so don’t shoot the messenger, but if everything is automated by machines that you control, you no longer need to farm

Just channeling amoral billionaires here, so don’t shoot the messenger, but if everything is automated by machines that you control, you no longer need to farm humans for capital. Not saying that’s even remotely realistic over the next century, but it does seem to be how some of these people think. Excessive wealth destroys intelligence, it doesn’t enhance it, as countless examples show.