No… no… No.

Let’s have some weird destablizing tech that rich people cannot control or bank on to level the playing field a little. (No, not AI - something like pre-2010 internet). That or aliens, who have the sole goal of trading with us only once our Gini coefficient drops to less than 0.05

There’s a famous saying that goes:

between war and hell, war is worse because there’s no innocent people in hell.