My kid's generation doesn't really have a shred of hope, does it?

[HughBeaumont]

3. Wealthy people and governments have the power to change the planet.

The operative word being "have".

Wealthy people choose to build private island enclaves "just in case" and governments give money to people that don't need it to automate industries that supposedly need repeat business to survive. Unless, that is, there's a way to make it work WITHOUT people buying products. I don't know of that way, maybe they do.

It's a given that our children are going to be working until they're gurneyed out; "retirement" is a word of the past, that's for rich people from now on. I'm just wondering what they'll be working AT. Products and services need to be purchased for businesses to survive. That requires disposable income. Entry level jobs are going the way of the dodo.

What's to even stop AI lawyers . . . an entity that can access thousands upon thousands of cases/precedents from the Harvard Law Library or the Library of Congress, algorithmically propose a case and defend it?

Nobody cares or talks about it beyond this board or on tech blogs. It's all assumed that the status quo is going to remain in place. The reality is, the wealthmongers are slowly and methodically already plotting their way out.