Drones to cause huge unpeaval in society

[Lauren Johnson]

The problem I see with this scenario is that the 1% will still need the 99% (or at least the majority) to work for wages - meagre though they may be - so that they can spend their income on things sold by the 1%. The ultra wealthy few can't sell their own products to themselves and make a profit.

So it seems to me that future robocop technology will be used to enforce, and not to replace?

Short term: robocop.

But for those playing the long game? Replace.

My read, the very existence of the 1% is an affront to the godlike superiority of the heirs of the Black Venetian Nobility. The ultimate solution to the 1% problem is alteration and replacement. Alteration would mean bioengineering human beings to tolerate slavery. A relatively small group would be bred for brilliant pacifity and would continue to conceive and engineer technological innovation.

The very thought of an economy that depends on the 1% would have to be rethought.