I mean sort of, they have deindustrialized the west to a large extent. But in terms of living in rural communities, doing your own food production etc, how does that benefit them? And how is that not a good thing for us? It is way better to be dependent only on your family and neighbors rather than monsanto, perdue, dow, walmart, and probably 5 other mega corporations that act as intermediates on that supply chain. We don't need to go back to the stone age, but the green revolution caused nothing but problems. The kicker is, with proper techniques actually tailored to your climate (not homogenous techniques across the world), you can get higher yields with no pesticides, no GMOs, no herbicides, no hormones and so on. So we just need to invest more manpower, we can still produce as much or more. I'd rather spend 1/3-1/2 of my time homesteading than be dependent on corporations and governments, and to not have poison in the food I feed my children.
The problem we are facing is that the singularity event is just on the horizon, like a couple of decades or so. Most of the population isn’t responsible enough to handle these emerging technologies. We have to make the choice to make an evolutionary leap forward (which would include a mass extinction event also), or reject the singularity and take a step back. There is a good argument to be made that the general population doesn’t have the IQ or the ethos necessary to handle what’s coming.
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