One possibility is that work isn't required; sort of a cleansing of useless eaters where those who appear to live with a different timeframe can collect what has been built for pennies or even nothing.
After all, that is exactly what happened during the last Great Depression, priceless factories and family heirlooms where practically given away to the likes of Rockefeller and other illuminati members.
Our timeframe appears to short; perhaps the imposed flawed genetics cause us to think in a few decades while those that control us think in centuries…