They have a lot more power this time, though. Not saying it matters, because Taliban. But you’re right that we could end up fulfilling some scorched earth prophecy.
All I'm saying is that their families and infrastructure that they are normally used to being perfectly safe and 10,000 miles away when they were struggling with these much weaker genies will be behind enemy lines and in the middle of the conflict if they ever try to use that force. Takes a lot of machinery and plebs working without distraction, harassment and reprisal to make any of it possible.
I could also see the argument that if society is disrupted to that degree that they would have a much more difficult time adapting to dramatically lower standards of living compared to the plebs.
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