and they won't have any better at it.

the people wholl be in power then will still resemble the basics: violence, means of production and more violence.

which they know and are basically planning dystopian police states.

Because given the historical precedents, they know they will probably die peacefully in their beds before they have to pay any real consequences for their actions. Sure, a few dictators at the very end of their reign had to pay some consequences, but their cohorts? Soviet Russia, South America Banana republics, the aristocratic european families that enabled fascism and nazism...

Probably a few CEOs great grand-childs will probably have to write how they're very very sad that their long forgotten relatives have destroyed most of the planet, and how they're just so lucky to be among the few that are still living a luxurious life somewhere in the Solomon Islands.

Hey if it’s a Weimar style apocalypse we’ll all be billionaires.