Correction: they need serfs to serve for their amusement while robots and drones do all the manual labour required.
An elite of a couple of hundreds of thousands, plus a cadre of researchers, technicians and similar in the millions and the proles in the tens of millions.
Plus an enforcer-caste of about 5% of the total. Plato would be so proud.
Shocked it's not "I want to kill ALL of you."
Oh, but there still need to be SOME people to plough and reap the fields. After all, Gatesy & his cronies still need to eat.... :-\
HA! Stupid me.
They need serfs to work the fields and other jobs beneath them so THEY the globalists can survive.
Ha ha, we had the same thought at the same time! :-D
Correction: they need serfs to serve for their amusement while robots and drones do all the manual labour required.
An elite of a couple of hundreds of thousands, plus a cadre of researchers, technicians and similar in the millions and the proles in the tens of millions.
Plus an enforcer-caste of about 5% of the total. Plato would be so proud.
The happy ending version of the dystopian story: the robots very rationally decide that the "elites" are useless and eliminate them.