It depends on what you think is a glorious future. As I said in my conclusion above, I personally think that the situation I described is kind of lame and depressing, and also there is some possibility that it is bad in a scope-sensitive way if these enclaves continue to control large proportions of the resources of the future (e.g. because their members have a fixed proportion of voting power over the decisions made by the US government).
(As a sort-of-aside, the US government continuing to control large proportions of the resources of the future — any current institution being locked in forever like that — strikes me as similarly lame and depressing. (A really good future should be less familiar.))
It depends on what you think is a glorious future. As I said in my conclusion above, I personally think that the situation I described is kind of lame and depressing, and also there is some possibility that it is bad in a scope-sensitive way if these enclaves continue to control large proportions of the resources of the future (e.g. because their members have a fixed proportion of voting power over the decisions made by the US government).
(As a sort-of-aside, the US government continuing to control large proportions of the resources of the future — any current institution being locked in forever like that — strikes me as similarly lame and depressing. (A really good future should be less familiar.))