They haven't killed us yet because they need slaves to make all their consumer goods, suggesting that robotics is not at an advanced stage yet where it can completely replace us. In the future who knows what could happen.

The idea is a post-modern plantation society that exploits the mass population. The only people who are gleaned and killed are strong warrior resistant types, critical thinkers and worthless eaters. Those can be quietly dispensed via barely noticed fast growing cancers, heart attacks and accidents. Gulags can be set up in an emergency for other problematic types.

Don't forget to mention the most effective weapon in their arsenal: pathologizing natural human reactions elicited by unnatural circumstances and toxic environments: psychiatry.

The question is wrong.
They don't control everything... yet.
They're working their way towards it, though.

Greed is also an overblown motivator. Throughout western civilization, the greatest vice has been acknowledged as pride, since a little contemplation shows it can lead to all other vices. Now, greed is suddenly the worst of them? Nah.
After a point, money is nothing. Power of what money can't buy, over all of humanity's roiling spirit (we're surprisingly hard to tame), now that's what the elite of the elites want.

petty theft

You make joke eh?

Because Satan doesn't want to kill you until after you worship him before God.

They still need us to do the work, though less all the time; the robots are not quite far enough along to allow a mass culling. But make no mistake, the culling has begun.

Humanity might be food for something else. It might be that we have been cultivated into this position to be eaten. We are like a giant crop or something. The number of us is what makes me feel this way the most.

This makes no sense.

Humans require a lot of energy to "grow" and we are hard to control, relatively to other animals. There is nothing so special about human flesh that makes choosing this extremely difficult path over a much easier farming route.

Perhaps we are farmed for a psychic / emotional substance which is filtered through the veins of the cities designed by the masons. Just spitballin

What about human blood? It is very special.

How so?

It's delicious. ;)

Especially when enriched with fear, amirite?

Hahaha

But the number is going to naturally increase exponentially over time. That's how maths works.

Humanity exploded over the last 100 years on purpose.

You mean we haven't been accidentally fucking each other billions of times over the last century? Thank god for that.

Of course it was on purpose. Nearly everybody who wants to have kids has them, and that encompasses most of the people on the planet. And seeing as our resources can accommodate that, population increase.

We are marijuana plants in the flowering stage. Prepare to get smoked.

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Because we've developed technology and bought the entire planet under our control. If there was something above us in the food chain, we would've killed it, or it would've killed us.

Walk outside and go shoot a bird. Has anything eaten you? No. That's why we're at the top.

Swim in the ocean. Humans are not the top of the food chain there.

There's a reason we don't live in the ocean, and a reason sharks can't live on land. We're pretty clearly superior to sharks.

Also aircraft carriers, submarines, battleships. Sharks ain't nuthin.

You win. :)

You say that. But drag net fishing is illegal because it is super effective. We have some pretty big boats, which could drag some pretty big nets to sieve the ocean.

If I throw you off that boat you will be trapped in a net full of sharks. Good luck with that.

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Very immature response.

Don't forget to mention the most effective weapon in their arsenal: pathologizing natural human reactions elicited by unnatural circumstances and toxic environments: psychiatry.

Hahaha