Also as you have mentioned we are in this space with AI because the AI boosters went on an antisocial rampage advertising their technology as life destroying so now people are mad that their lives are going to be destroyed (they will not be destroyed)

The thing to understand about all these network states is:

(1) they require a permanent underclass to do all the labor that keeps cities functional,

(2) they have no answers to how or why free people en masse would sign up to be that permanent underclass

And

(3) that’s because they want slaves.