claushauler t1_jd12thn wrote
Cool now do AI engineered communicable pathogens, virii and infectious agents.
Eleganos OP t1_jd133ty wrote
Done a bit of it in replies to comments in this post.
Might do a breakdown on it depending on if I see it getting brought up as often as I did the murderbots.
claushauler t1_jd13lep wrote
You honestly can't envision a scenario where people who naturally feel that they're the pinnacle of the human hierarchy thin the herd of all the rabble and enjoy an unstressed planet with half the people and therefore double the resources? Your imagination is limited.
claushauler t1_jd141am wrote
This man said it in 1891.
mescalelf t1_jd1ex14 wrote
> “I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.” — Jay Gould
For those curious
Eleganos OP t1_jd17lct wrote
I've got a creative writing degree mate. Believe me, I can think of a million different scenarios if I wanted to.
I can just tell where plausibility ends and fiction begins.
The fact is that nuclear weapons exist, along with governments that would rather have power than a bunch of rich psychopaths.
There is no functional collection of rich people who are actively pursuing the eradication of even half of humanity, Thanos Style, who could aquire the means to do so before the United States or China could.
They don't have an auto sense for like mindedness, and while they have a disproportionate amount of madmen amongst them, most rich people are just selfish assholes, not genocidal monsters.
It's like expecting a high-school bully who steals your lunch money and breaks your toys to grab an AK47 and start mowing down people the moment they graduate.
It'll just be more of the same, writ large, at worst.
They aren't nearly creative enough, or motivated enough, to end the world.
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