There are over 8 billion people on Earth.
And there are groups of elites convinced this fact stands in the way of utopia. They are committed to reducing the global population.
Why they get to live in this ideal future while others don't is not up for debate.
They have money and power, and they don't want to compete for the Earth's resources with billions of others less worthy.
These groups aren’t the product of fantasy or fiction.
John D. Rockefeller founded one in 1952 called the Population Council. Its stated purpose was to research population dynamics.
According to Rockefeller, "an organization needed to be created that would be devoted to the reduction of fertility of weaker individuals with undesirable genetics."
The council still operates its programs around the world.
The Club of Rome was a global think tank founded in 1968 by an Italian industrialist. Its mission is to create an ideal future for humanity by limiting population growth. It continues to publish research and advocate for its policies to this day.
Then there is the group behind the Georgia Guidestones. These granite monoliths were America's version of Stonehenge. They were built in 1980 by a mystery group led by R.C. Christian – whose real name also remains a mystery.
But its goals were no mystery. If you visited Elberton, Georgia to see the granite monoliths in person, you would have found ten messages engraved in the granite. And in case you weren't from America, the messages were repeated in eight different world languages and 4 dead languages, including Sanskrit.
R.C. Christian really wanted you to read his tenants. He believed they were guides to a utopian future (thus the name Georgia Guidestones). The very first message read, "maintain humanity under 500 million in perpetual balance with nature".
But, while elites love to ponder a world without the rest of us, the fact is, they need people to do all the small stuff.
Farming, manufacturing, shipping, constructing – when elite groups imagine a utopia, they don't imagine they're navigating a container ship across the Atlantic, or harvesting strawberries, or any number of things that take real work.
For there to be "elites", there must be everyone else. Unless, of course, AI can replace us.
This month, DBS – Singapore's largest bank – announced plans to reduce its workforce by 4,000 people over the next four years. Not because it figured out how to do the same with less work. The plan is to do more.
The bank is replacing humans with artificial intelligence. The bank deploys over 800 AI models already, and expects to see over a billion dollars in added revenue from the move to replace human beings.
Swedish financial tech company Klarna went one better. It stopped hiring any humans with the goal of replacing all workers with AI. Already its AI assistant, which is powered by OpenAI, is doing the work of 700 full-time customer service agents.
And there's more. According to Bloomberg, global banks are planning to cut 200,000 jobs in the next five years as artificial intelligence takes on jobs formerly done by humans.
The International Monetary Fund warned that AI will likely take 40% of all jobs worldwide. A CNN survey of finance chiefs confirmed US firms are on board, with 61% planning to use AI to automate tasks done by employees.
Elon Musk, the man currently tasked with cutting thousands of U.S. Government jobs, has already seen where this all goes. Speaking at the UK's AI Safety Summit in 2023, the Tesla CEO said he believes AI will "replace the need for all jobs".
The message engraved in the 16-foot-tall Georgia Guidestones sounded crazy – that we could keep the population to 500,000. Yet the world seems to be preparing for a time when there won't be so many humans around.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/wall-street-might-cut-2-00-000-jobs-as-ai-replaces-roles-7440564
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/20/business/ai-jobs-workers-replacing/index.html
https://egaonline.com/sites/default/files/The%20Georgia%20Guidestones.pdf