The singularity arrives overnight, and whoever holds power at that moment locks in their position permanently. Superintelligent AI solves everything: disease, energy, scarcity. But the solutions flow through a narrow gate. A tiny elite controls the most powerful technology in human history, and they have no reason to share more than is necessary to maintain order.
Abundance is real. Access is rationed. A new feudalism, built on compute (computing power) instead of land.