Thank you. I think Musk's proposal with Neuralink will separate the old and new race of humans. This and genetic modification, trans-humanism, cybernetics, etc. A forced "evolutionary" adapt or die decision for people to make. This ends free will and independent consciousness, so any risk of resistance or revolution. The one's who don't adapt, simply go extinct.

On the economy, automation would drastically reduce a necessity for large populations. Their mission is a self replicating system, for their personal enjoyment. Robots which build and maintain their own numbers. The consumptive resources (carbon) required for human labor, they'd rather cut out altogether.

Once a monopoly amasses every scrap of resource possible, their purpose no longer becomes profit (which only has advantages when there is a free market to compete in), but maintenance of control.

I think Brave New World is one side of their vision. We can see it plainly in modern culture, along with 1984's mass surveillance, open air prison grid. There's too much evidence they see the population as property to be done away with once they've reached their desired end.