Unless genetic engineering has always been accessible to the ruling class and we cant comprehend the true mechanisms that keep us oppressed.

Imagine, its completely feasible to use a space craft or time dilation to travel forward in time. People could exsist on an entire plane of existence within our plane of existence.

Global warming?

No big deal, jump forward a few millennia and see how things developed. Still unliveable? Jump forward again.

Sure its risky and hard to imagine but its not impossible.