Technologies like virtual and augmented realities create experiences which can help generate empathy. Why? Because these experiences enable us humans to live in the shoes of others. Makes sense, right? This can foster understanding and compassion among leaders and policymakers, helping solve issues such as civil rights, social welfare and immigration, and therefore can be a solution to growth and equality What do you think?
Total bull. If anything they'll develop even less 'empathy' than the vestigial amount of empathy that they might have. The 'game' of managing the 'useless eater' classes for maximum exploitation will be even more of a 'virtual world' for these creeps.
Far down the pyramid there will be middle managers who may have a typical amount of empathy, but this type of 'normal' degrees of humanity is totally incompatible with performance in the higher ranks of power. Again, 'technology' will make the situation worse not better.
Some research I've been reading describes the methods whereby the 'elite' put a great deal of effort into well honed methods of killing off empathy in their own children's very early years when the mind is still quite malleable. Nasty stuff, but I'm only 50/50 on whether there is substance to some of these tales. Some circumstantial evidence indicates to me that there could be, and it does seem to be the case that leadership placements do have a fairly strong familial basis even to this day in supposedly 'democratic' forms of government.