Superpowers are useless
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Don't think about how much damage some individual can do today vs 100 years ago then.
Two people with manual labor jobs could blow up an office building. A few more could take down a skyscraper. Five people in a Chinese virus lab disrupted global trade and killed many people.
I think this is the undercurrent behind the New World Order. The elites, as you explained, are terrified of individual people having power. And the force multipliers from technology only grow daily.
What to do is a real question. We can't have people with gene printers making super viruses (and it's not that hard to do) without totally changing society to isolate people. We also can't have lizard pedos controlling everyone's thoughts with brain microchips and/or Google search.
Probably the best solution is to spread out to all the planets, but that's maybe too far off.
I don't want to belie the complexity of the topic, but the potential for these things to happen is normally low. For instance, it's been possible to assassinate people by kamikaze ever since the advent of powered flight, even the most powerful people, but it's only happened a few times because of layers of social, professional, and informational constraints. As our culture falls apart, granted, some of those constraints will fall away as well.