>>55207823Yeah - the root cause is human nature. I never blamed one current cabal of people, because historically it was always about the wicked obtaining power and abusing it, until another group of wicked elites gets pissed off enough to overthrow them.
People are drawn to certain traits. People also form some sort of a social order as a survival strategy. It makes sense for the more fit individuals to call the shots. But this also means that certain maladjusted, evil people can exploit these tendencies to put themselves up on the top, then exploit the bottom to stay there and also fuel their sick needs. Then when you scale it up across the entire globe, and add unprecedented technological advances, and you have a recipe for horrors sci-fi writers could only dream about.