Abstract
This paper argues that the advent of inevitable humanoid automation has triggered a fundamental strategic pivot among financial elites from traditional labor control to comprehensive population control. The author contends that recognizing mass technological unemployment as imminent, ruling powers have shifted from suppressing organized labor to preemptively managing the social disruption of widespread joblessness. The analysis identifies four key mechanisms of this transition: population division to prevent unified resistance, systematic neutralization of dissent, construction of total surveillance infrastructure, and creation of "turnkey" repression systems. Central to this framework is monetary sovereignty, the power to control money creation and distribution, which the author argues provides immunity from market forces and enables the funding or starvation of entire economic sectors. The paper introduces the concept of a "heat sink function," whereby potentially destabilizing revelations (Panama Papers, Snowden leaks, academic studies proving oligarchic control) are absorbed and neutralized through media cycles and procedural mechanisms rather than producing systemic change. Recent events including the Gaza conflict and suppressed rail strikes are presented as evidence that public tolerance for authoritarian overreach has reached critical levels. The author predicts that inevitable national debt defaults will serve as pretexts for asset seizure by controlling interests, while the breakdown of the traditional labor-survival relationship necessitates new forms of population management. Under the framework of "Experiential Empiricism," measuring systems solely by lived outcomes, the paper concludes that Western governance now delivers widespread precarity and diminishing autonomy, with reform mechanisms having demonstrably failed. The analysis suggests that any viable strategy for change must acknowledge the totality of systemic capture and the urgency of the timeline as automation accelerates toward mass displacement of human labor.
1. The Turning Point
Once automated humanoid labor became inevitable within a single lifetime, the ruling financial order shifted priorities. For over a century, their main concern was preventing organized labor from gaining leverage, a battle dating back to the New Deal. The moment they saw that most human jobs, paid or unpaid, would soon be obsolete, the goal changed. It became about preemptively controlling the mass unemployment crisis they knew was coming.
2. The New Program
The new strategic objectives are clear:
Divide populations to prevent unified revolt.
Sterilize dissent physically, legally, and culturally.
Build total surveillance and predictive policing infrastructure.
Construct turnkey systems of repression that can be activated instantly.
This is not theory. It is public record. Patriot Act surveillance expansion, Snowden's leaks, Assange's exposures, and the legislative aftermath show that once illegal state powers were not rolled back but normalized.
3. The Role of Monetary Control
At the core is monetary sovereignty. Those who control the creation and distribution of money are immune to normal market forces. They can fund or starve entire sectors, reward loyal corporations, and cripple disobedient states. This is not just wealth; it is the root of all systemic power. All visible competition between billionaires is secondary to this hidden alignment.
4. The Heat Sink Function
Information that should destabilize the system instead dissipates public energy:
Panama Papers: exposed vast financial crimes, changed nothing.
Snowden: revealed illegal surveillance, led to expansion of the programs.
Gilens and Page: empirically proved the US is an oligarchy, generated no reform.
The system absorbs outrage through media churn, procedural stalling, and controlled opposition.
5. The Absence of Escape
There are no escapees. Any attempt to create an alternative, including cryptocurrency, parallel media, and intentional communities, hits dependencies controlled by the same system. Even apparent mavericks succeed by serving its deeper interests.
6. Gaza and the Rail Strike as Proof Points
Two recent tests prove public tolerance is already at terminal levels:
Gaza showed that live streamed atrocities will be met with talk, not intervention.
The crushed rail strike showed that even legal, coordinated labor action can be stopped by fiat.
Both events were executed in full public view, with zero structural consequence.
7. The Debt Pretext
There is no realistic path to repay national debts under current conditions. Default is inevitable. When it comes, those in control will seize real assets such as land, infrastructure, and strategic industries, and blame anything but the truth.
8. The Endgame
The traditional link between labor and survival is breaking. The ruling order is preparing for a world where 60 percent of working age people have no job and no lawful means to survive without state permission. That is the real purpose of the surveillance state, the cultural atomization, and the ongoing erosion of rights.
Under Experiential Empiricism, we measure systems only by lived outcomes. By that metric, the Western model now delivers widespread precarity, unaccountable governance, and shrinking autonomy. Reform from within has failed for decades. Any strategy for change must begin by accepting that the capture is total, and the clock is running.
Context:
https://philpeople.org/profiles/brandon-sergent/publications