The Narratives – Mohamed Miah

How AI, Austerity, and Corporate Greed Are Engineering a Population Crisis

By Mohamed Miah

There’s a slow war being waged against the working class, but it isn’t fought with guns or tanks. It’s fought with policies, algorithms, and economic pressure. They call it growth, efficiency, and innovation, but the reality is far more sinister: a systematic culling of the population through unemployment, homelessness, and economic suffocation.

We are watching the corporate takeover of the state, where government no longer serves the people but exists to protect wealth, profits, and elite interests. It’s not just capitalism running wild—it’s something darker, a strategy designed to phase out the “unprofitable” members of society without having to admit that’s what they’re doing.

How AI and Automation Are Just the Beginning

The politicians and CEOs sell AI as the next great industrial revolution, promising that it will “create more jobs than it destroys.” But history tells us otherwise. Every industrial shift has wiped out entire industries before creating new ones, and this time, the replacement jobs simply aren’t there.

AI isn’t just automating low-skill labour anymore—it’s coming for office workers, legal assistants, even parts of the medical profession. If a task can be done with data, an algorithm can be trained to do it. And what happens to those people? The government doesn’t care, because keeping unemployment low is no longer their priority—keeping profits high is.

The idea that people can just “retrain” and find new roles is a fantasy. What are they supposed to retrain for when every industry is downsizing? When job competition is so fierce that salaries are dropping? When even university degrees don’t guarantee employment anymore?

Governments don’t have an answer, because they don’t need one. Their goal isn’t to keep people in work—it’s to reduce the number of people needing work altogether.

The Broken Economic Loop

If AI replaces workers, you’d think that tax revenues would take a hit, right? Fewer people in employment means less income tax, less National Insurance, and ultimately, less money for the country to run itself.

But instead of fixing this, they respond with welfare cuts, NHS defunding, and pension age hikes—all while handing out tax breaks to the very corporations making billions from automation.

It doesn’t take an economist to see the problem, if people aren’t earning, they’re not spending. If they’re not spending, businesses start failing. If businesses fail, even more jobs are lost. The entire economy depends on a functioning workforce, but we’re actively dismantling it.

Yet, the rich don’t care. They live outside this system. They have offshore accounts, loopholes, and passive income streams that shield them from the consequences of their own greed. The only people left to suffer are the working class and the poor.

The Unspoken Population Control

For all their talk of levelling up, social mobility, and opportunity, the real strategy is clear: reduce the number of people needing jobs, homes, and healthcare, by letting them fall into poverty or die prematurely.

• Homelessness is at record levels—yet instead of funding housing, councils are given more powers to fine, arrest, and remove rough sleepers.

• Life expectancy is dropping—but NHS waiting lists are longer than ever, and access to free healthcare is being quietly eroded.

• Food banks are becoming a lifeline—but supermarkets and landlords continue to squeeze every last penny from struggling households.

They’re not coming out and saying they want fewer people, but look at their actions, policies that push more people out of work, out of homes, and out of society altogether. Austerity isn’t just about saving money—it’s a tool for culling the population by making survival impossible for those at the bottom.

Why the Elite Won’t Care Until It’s Too Late

There’s a myth that if the economy collapses, the rich will suffer too. But the truth is, they’ve already insulated themselves. They don’t live in the same world we do.

• Their money isn’t in wages—it’s in stocks, property, and hidden wealth.

• Their healthcare isn’t the NHS—it’s private doctors, exclusive clinics, and first-class treatment.

• Their lives aren’t affected by inflation—they can afford to absorb rising costs.

They don’t need us the way they used to. The days when the economy depended on a strong workforce and consumer base are fading. With AI, automation, and passive wealth generation, the ultra-rich are moving into a new era where the working class is no longer essential.

And that’s the most dangerous shift of all.

The Future They’re Engineering – And How We Fight Back

If things continue on this path, we’re looking at a world of extreme inequality, where only the wealthiest survive comfortably, and everyone else is either barely scraping by or left to perish. It’s not a conspiracy—it’s the logical outcome of the policies we see unfolding right now.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. We still have the power to resist,

• Demand AI taxation and job protections – If companies profit from replacing human workers, they must pay into the system to support those displaced.

• Expose the corporate control of government – The revolving door between big business and politics needs to be shut for good.

• Refuse to accept austerity as normal – There is enough money in this country to fund healthcare, housing, and welfare—it’s just being hoarded at the top.

• Rebuild real unions and workers’ rights movements – Collective action is the only way to make corporations and governments listen.

This isn’t about hating technology or fearing progress—it’s about who controls that progress and who benefits from it. Right now, it’s a small handful of billionaires, while the rest of us are told to adapt or suffer.

They’ve made it clear, they don’t need us anymore. So the real question is—what are we going to do about it?