Yeah, but with them doing their best to reduce everybody to poverty, if you want to get to where they live, you're going to walk.

That seems to be their idea, anyway. Underneath it all, it's fundamentally a return to feudalism. Your role in this little drama they're trying to stage is the benighted peasant. Or, as seems increasingly likely, your role is to die out so that they can import benighted peasantry from other countries.