Perhaps that was the hubris laid at the feet of Atlantis, justification of their destruction by the gods.
I would see free people across the planet have this level of technology, that the impetus to gain the stars and infinite universe come to fruition, and our felicity endure beyond the insignificant resources of Earth and days of our span unto our penultimate posterity. I have loved the explorations of what might be possible science fiction writers have undertaken, and confess my expectations colored, but my grasp of physics remains my guide in their plethora.
The policies of the overlords seem so shortsighted. What they deprive themselves of is the ingenuity of 10 Billion minds questing for improvement in the circumstances of humanity, and they cannot relinquish their stations even to enjoy orders of magnitude increase in their quality of life, though only in the company of peers, rather than subjects.
Such a shame we allow them license to have the wealth to implement even a fraction of their nefarious conspiracies. Reckon it's time to out produce them, and retain the fruits of our endeavors rather than deliver our wealth to our enemies. Fortunate that 3D printers, aquaponics, mesh networks, cryptocurrency, CRISPR, and all the permutations those concatenate to produce, that, because we produce them ourselves, engender no sales tax, require no licensing or payment to investors in industrial manufacturing, or taxed income to buy.
Distributed means of production bring the rewealthing of humanity, and the relative penury of extant overlords as they become equals dependent on their own devices, rather than vampires extracting our life's essence.