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A simple step by step model of how everything will gradually turn to shit without the (lawful) acceleration of global social, economic, and political destabilization:

1. As the nations of the world grow into larger economic blocs
2. They will begin to integrate demographically
3. Demographic integration creates feedback loops of distrust
4. This increases crime, particularly gang violence, terrorism, and inter-religious and inter-racial crime
5. In order to stabilize this scenario governments are forced to create an ever-tightening police state
6. This create a backlash
7. The cost of policing grows to the point where rights have to gradually be restricted, either wholesale
or over decades
8. To cope with the backlash of that, they invest in technologies that make it vastly cheaper and
more cost effective to strip people of their rights
9. Companies exploit this, creating and increasing the intensity of an industry that now
has an incentive to create poverty and inter-group hostility, in order to justify its continuing and
growing existence.
10. Executives who fight against this are ostracized by a media that benefits from the corporate sponsorship
of the 'domestic defense and intelligence' (police state) sector. They are cast as choosing a side.
11. Some executives at various levels high and low are affected by the social instability and crime.
12. They try to push through reforms.
13. Reforms fail because most executives and representatives can be bought, cowed, blackmailed or bribed.
14. As a substitute, to prevent further attempts at repair, a two-tier system is gradually implemented,
where those in power are increasingly insulated from the outcome of their own decisions.
15. Graft and averice increases as the prospect of retribution or any sort of consequences is locked-out
by manpower, technology, and surveillance.
16. Eventually these same industries are used to create a mutually self-reinforcing net of insiders, an
insiders club, aggregating into ever-larger corporations or conglamorates, using both technology,
and politics, to first disadvantage, then weaken, then destroy and/or buy up smaller competitors.
17. Eventually major corporations have more power than the government. Whole sale separation
of the classes occurs through the forcing-affect of the one-sided advantages, until most of society
lives on welfare in (increasingly abject) poverty, completely overpowered by security forces.
18. Given enough time die-offs do occur as economic upsets take what little is left
for the marginalized, in favor of repeated small-margin gains to big players.
See what happened to the indians for reference. Now apply that to entire nations.
19. Eventually surveillance, security force automation, and predictive intelligence become
so advanced that the birth rate of the destitute 90% collapse, and childless men and
sundry other demographics turn to revolts.
20. Because the judicial system is first captured, and then over decades, subverted, and then
privatized 'to save costs' (because crime has at this point become so out of control due
to overwhelming forcing-factors like mass poverty), this simply leads to mass killings
by security forces, which are sanitized by a fully owned press, and sanctioned by the judicial.
21. Eventually, insulated from oversight, the corporations, and the mere pretense of government
that remains, engage in ever-tightening loops of arms research.
22. This leads to biological, chemical, nuclear, or AI based weapons that can't be controlled
23. Something goes wrong sooner or later. Some isolated nation or major power pushed
into a corner is forced into desperate measures.
24. Those dooms-day weapons are released.
25. Humanity dies to its own devices.