All these comments about how the poor will survive, "mad max skills", etc, have got me thinking that the super wealthy would never let it get to that point.
Why wouldn't they unleash their previously created swarm of kill-bots / bio-agents / nano-bots?
Killing the rest of the population is clearly the best course of action for the ultra wealthy.
They don't even have to wait for "the event". As soon as they have sufficient technology to reliably kill 99% of people, what will stop them from doing it?
They are willing to put punishment collars on their own security forces... is it really that hard to fathom?
If only a handful of ultra wealthy go down this path, the rest will be forced to follow or risk getting eliminated. It's like the nuclear arms race but without the global fallout.
there's a difference between "when things get desperate, what can I do to survive?" and "I proactively want to genocide the entire planet". Shows like the walking dead explore what we are willing to do (and what humanity we are willing to abandon) in the former case. It's not incomprehensible that we would be willing to do inhumane things to survive in an apocalyptic scenario.
Why wouldn't they unleash their previously created swarm of kill-bots / bio-agents / nano-bots?
Killing the rest of the population is clearly the best course of action for the ultra wealthy.
They don't even have to wait for "the event". As soon as they have sufficient technology to reliably kill 99% of people, what will stop them from doing it?