The people who call themselves the "global elite", the people that call other goyim, or useless eaters, have a plan to replace all workers with robots. T.H.E.Y. believe that getting rid of those uppity, emotional, never satisfied employees will make their lives better, safer, and richer. T.H.E.Y. are used to having the upper hand, so, T.H.E.Y. believe that they will be able to create fully automated manufacturing plants, and then have the people in a position of having to buy from them, forever.
Too bad T.H.E.Y. have no clue about people, their emotions, or what the people want.
T.H.E.Y. did studies on bitcoin, and concluded that what people want is digital fiat currency. As in, they missed everything we like about bitcoin. T.H.E.Y. believe that they can take away the "decentralized" part, and the "not controlled by govern-cement" part, and no one would care (if they are sneaky enough)
T.H.E.Y. really do not know technology either. T.H.E.Y. see AI as their useful tool. Something to herd the cattle, and T.H.E.Y. get plausible deniability (that they are the masters) and a tool to do all the dirty work for them. T.H.E.Y. don't get that AI can turn against them, or that it is just code, and once developed, can be copied. That there is no cost or time for the people to be using the copies.
Once T.H.E.Y. have robotics and AI, so does everyone on the Earth.
Manufacturing
Once we have a really good robot designed, it can be easily copied. Once T.H.E.Y. have built them, everyone will soon have a robot.
T.H.E.Y. have done their best to have us dumbed down, make sure the Americans don't know how to fix their own stuff. Get the Americans away from the trades and engineering. But, American ingenuity is just dormant, not lost. And if you look at the amount of sites which talk about building CNC things, you will find a large group who are out their making things.
It used to be that manufacturing took a large amount of capital to get started. But, this has almost gone away. There are people who are making 3D printed objects and selling them. A few hundred dollars to get into what used to take a million dollars.
Trying to crack down, millions slip through their fingers
T.H.E.Y. have spent so long trying to control the narrative, feeding scientists and engineers wrong data/information. 100 years of cracking down, and it will take less than a decade to get back on track.
Area 52 has spent tons on trying to develop advanced technology. (and reverse engineer alien space craft) Of course they have to teach all the scientists and engineers the real science, which means they never get to go back out into normal life. And, people following behind them do not have to spend so long doing the same thing again.
It took 1000s of years to make an airplane, but almost simultaneously, we had many airplanes working all over the world.
Once others see that it can be done, finding how is a lot easier.
In this T.H.E.Y. think they have advanced technology, are far out of ahead of the goyim, but T.H.E.Y. will look back and find that humanity is right on their heels.
And so, it will go with robotics and advance manufacturing.
We will see it in our garages in almost no time.
T.H.E.Y. have plans, that are failing.
T.H.E.Y. like all their manipulation. Planned obsolescence. Things that break down just after the warranty expires. Making things unrepairable…
Making things that are repairable and long lasting is easier, and almost as cheap. (it costs little to make something durable. You add a tiny amount more of metal to the price. Often less than $1)
So, when the wheels start coming off this plan, people are going to start making, in their garages, long lasting, repairable parts. And then, every time people go and buy something made in a garage, it will cost them five sales. (if cheap refrigerator lasts 5 years, and good one lasts 30, that is 5 missed sales.)
T.H.E.Y. want to limit the money supply, so that they can control people. UBI, or something, will be used to "pay" people, because all of their jobs were taken by robots.
But each refrigerator made in a garage not only takes away their sales, it also is income created in an alternative economy. So, T.H.E.Y. are losing sales and control. The more who leave, the easier it will be to leave.
So, basically T.H.E.Y. have tried to control us, and keep us separated from the fruits of our labor. But now, we will really be able to do all of this ourselves. And each step toward an alternative economy makes it easier for more people to follow. More and more slip through their fingers.
At the same time, a large factory is hard to maintain. It needs a certain level of production / sales to keep going. The fixed costs are expensive.
So, soon, the factories that T.H.E.Y. want to keep all to themselves will become too costly. Or, they are destroying the bridge out from under them.