That's short term thinking.
You can't stop innovation across the planet, you will lose control over time as adversaries continue to innovate and subsume antiquated control structures.
You can't stop innovation across the planet, you will lose control over time as adversaries continue to innovate and subsume antiquated control structures.
Hitler for example thought he was justified. And so do all the people who claim global warming isn’t real.
I can see it as a rational strategy if you're worried successors won't be up to the job.
When a company or a society is threatened the usual response is to double down on things that accelerate decline like killing novelty and innovation.
These things worked when we were small primates fighting over limited food sources on the savannah. Our brain stems don’t know what millennium they are in and still run those programs.
Which is exactly what our system encourages. You don’t need to think beyond the next quarter / election cycle. You’re only in it to extract as much wealth in the short-term as possible and secure your chair before the music stops playing.
It looks like long term risky bet on new technology to me - exactly what you want those rich capitalist do.