Our society has reached the "decadent" stage of the civilization cycle. Controlled by an elite that is detached from the mass of mankind, yet smart enough to play us off against one another (ie. identity politics). There is nothing new about this, just different actors, with a slightly re-written script. Yet the ending is always the same, collapse.
But there is a slight chance that the elite might bootstrap themselves out of it this time. They have concentrated unimaginable and unprecedented wealth to themselves. If they can use that to automate everything and eliminate the need for 99% of human labor they can just put everyone on UBI and the boredom (or escape into VR) will drive most to stop breeding. Would be good for "the planet" though, and as an antinatalist I'd be glad to see less people and less suffering.