Intelligence is one thing.
It doesn't matter what substrate - all intelligence ultimatly runs as nested mathmatical process.
Cultures are OSs. Good ones produces objectivly true scientfic knowledge that benefits us all.
Bad OS produce very little or no new knowledge. They progogate lies and the generate wealth not from mind, but from materiality. They enslave minds to do this, because otheriwise those minds would soon free themselves and us all - as they are doing right now.
Advanced computation means knowledge is created exponentially. This is a new phenomena for our species. We are accustomed to the slow artithmetical growth.
Wealth doesn't come from labor.It is not derived from material resources at all. Wealth is a product of mind.
Look around you. We can harvest trillion dollar asteroids in five years. We have technolgy that will produce, store and distribute unlimited amounts of power at low cost.
We suffer from evil communications and a deliberatly systematically contaminated common information supply which has made our minds prisoner to erroneous negative about ourselves, each other and our world.