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I wouldn't be surprised if they also intend to depopulate the world. With careful engineering they probably have ideas how to pull it off. Crime, wars, plagues, neglect, economics, from the perspective of a billionaire the world would be a lot better place with a lot fewer people on it, solving pollution and global warming, providing much less strain on all the limited resources that all their fun projects could use instead while turning more of the Earth into their personal "nature preserves" with all the carefully cultivated charm and ecological desertification of a freshly mowed lawn or a lake stocked with fish.
Remember that these are people who are very selective about what sort of lived human experiences they choose to value. And most of us aren't on their list. We are only here because we are useful, for now. But they're working hard to make it so that we're no longer useful, and I'm sure they've already thought that through. They don't want a society of leisure for us. They want a society of leisure without us.