General Discussion

You've got the organizations that had their genesis in the '80s right, but the origins of this idea began really as far back as 1933 when FDR's New Deal initiatives began being implemented. In actuality, the robber barons of the industrial revolution who made their fortunes began to be ever more rapacious in their greed. Their corporate (and essentially kleptocratic) exploitation of individuals who were necessary to run their engines of industry was virtually unchecked, and that is exactly what the modern day kleptocrats like Musk, Thiel, Bezos, etc. are wanting now. They don't care whether earth burns up or not because they don't plan to be here, especially after they have raped all the valuable resources off the globe and killed their workforce.