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It's more complex than utopia is going to fail or not, its evident that disruptive as the recent developments are, they won't break break the rules of our world. But it will be a big change and there will be a lot of booms and busts.

>#1
Mexico still has the demographics for it and they are being tooled, but they don't need to be that massive if the robots evolve exponentially and begin to do the work themselves.

>#2
The US never had a lack of energy issue, its a matter of cost and economical warfare. The point of the oil wars wasn't to power cars, it was to surround Russia and prevent them from having oil/trade

>#3
Not a lot, not with AI on the level we are reaching.

No elites are claiming this events, they are afraid of them.

>Their idea of universal income won't work because you need taxpayers to fund it, and to have taxpayers you need workers. No workers, no taxpayers, no UBI, and thus no one making any money from consumption either.
This is not true, you can have a corporate scale economy and taxation of that economy in order to fund governments/armies.