[citrin_ru]

Looks like this is their plan but it's too early to say if it's a good plan.

[catigula]

I think it's a good plan. You don't really need pleb laborers and consumer practices when you can just have automated laborers and patrician goods.

[georgemcbay]

Whether or not it is a good plan depends upon how much faith they have in their doomsday bunkers and robot armies to protect them from the masses during the transition.

"Every society is three meals away from chaos"