My comment was reasonably factual. The vax has a lopsided risk/benefit ratio, and the risk of death in sixty days is just below the experiential probability observation threshold of humans. I think that the people who make that stuff are smart enough to do just that deliberately if they wanted to. You are asking me to speculate. I do not think that finance as a matter of dollars and cents has anything to do with it. Start with this thought: powerful, evil people have been fellow travelers with us through history. Ghengis Kahn, who wishes to conquer everyone, own everything, and is within reach of the means to do so still exists. Some key differences I see are: * The conquerors don't view military victory as a necessary condition * The conquerors can't rely on an individual leader given the complexity of their tastes, but they are willing to trade among themselves. * The conqueror's belief in modern automation technology reduce the value of possessing a healthy, fertile human population. If I were that person or people, here's what I'd want: * I'd want the fucking ski slopes at Montreaux to be free of those snowboard assholes * I'd want to build an enterprise to sustain my needs and be self sufficient (an "estate") * I'd want to trade with other estates to meet the needs that I could not furnish on my own estate ( I need a reliable source of Jet A fuel because I'm shit at refining petroleum... ) * I'd want to associate and interbreed with, "the right kind of people." * I'd still need to have employees, and that runs the gambit from menial labor to corporate officers to run the estate. * I'd want to be free of worry of nearby people not part of any estate and of a slave rebellion Having many of the pieces of that plan in place then I think the last point starts to become the priority - they worry about being within reach of competition from the bottom of the population. Those have to be reduced and contained. They will still need air-conditioning repair men, but having enough for everybody to have air-conditioning is out of the damn question. They believe that unowned humans are a tremendous source of cost and risk. This is my speculation.