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Oi... well goooood moooorning~! ☕ :BlobCatCoffee:
He wasn't knowledgeable about the JQ, but...

174. On the other hand it is possible that human control over
the machines may be retained. In that case the average man may
have control over certain private machines of his own, such as
his car or his personal computer, but control over large systems
of machines will be in the hands of a tiny elites just as it is
today, but with two differences. Due to improved techniques the
elite will have greater control over the masses; and because
human work will no longer be necessary the masses will be
superfluous, a useless burden on the system. If the elite is
ruthless they may simply decide to exterminate the mass of
humanity. If they are humane they may use propaganda or other
psychological or biological techniques to reduce the birth rate
until the mass of humanity becomes extinct, leaving the world to
the elite. Or, if the elite consists of soft-hearted liberals,
they may decide to play the role of good shepherds to the rest
of the human race. They will see to it that everyone's physical
needs are satisfied, that all children are raised under
psychologically hygienic conditions, that everyone has a
wholesome hobby to keep him busy, and that anyone who may become
dissatisfied undergoes "treatment" to cure his "problem." Of
course, life will be so purposeless that people will have to be
biologically or psychologically engineered either to remove
their need for the power process or to make them "sublimate"
their drive for power into some harmless hobby. These engineered
human beings may be happy in such a society, but they most
certainly will not be free. They will have been reduced to the
status of domestic animals.

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