In my opinion we do have two advantages -

The party of Davos are extremely powerful and are often 4 or 5 steps ahead like you say. Their weakness is they are only a few hundred people. They have to depend on a much larger world wide network of administrators and local governors in order to enforce their agenda. These people are greedy, corrupt and many of them are midwits - just about intelligent enough to internalise the elites ideology that they were trained in at school. Not intelligent enough for moral or logical decision making and little ability at leading or dealing with people - relying on propaganda and often resorting to extremely ham fisted heavy handed coercion when it doesn't work. I think among these people are those who have their own ambitions or petty grudges against other factions of the "cathedral" - some of who probably realise they're surrounded by idiots and have their own ideas.

The managerial elite are almost universally in power in every aspect of our lives and yet they view the world through an abstract and faulty lens. Sat away in offices theirs is a world of spread sheets, statistical modelling, viewing everyone as competing individual and interchangeable cogs in the machine. Often with little idea of what is actually going on at the sharp end. Sitting back and dutifully making sure only good news is passed up the chain of command. The view of people neoliberalism has is fundamentally antithetical to human nature and is based on faulty assumptions just like modern economics which also has faulty assumptions about human behaviour. They apply the same methodology to everything, often with poor results. Normally escaping consequences for their failure and failing upwards.

I work in manufacturing. The company I work for (a major multinational in the top 5 in its field) is a perfect example of the managerial system. Managers who have made a career of failing upwards or sideways who lock themselves away in their offices and don't have a clue what is going on. Several enterprising individuals have scammed them over the years. Only good news is ever reported to superiors. Failures are covered up and ignored. One by one the few people who told it how it was and called a spade a spade have been purged and every day brings us closer to the inevitable collapse of our viability as a business. Increasingly complex process being pushed in order to meet various targets and reduce man power requirements but leaving us with machinery our workforce cannot cope with and processes which have issues which defy understanding. The average age of our workforce is 58. I can count those under 40 including myself on my fingers. Critical expertise has been lost. I think this insulation of management and their servants has only got more acute with COVID and the work from home and sit in your bugman or cat lady apartment all day.

You see this decay in a lot of things. Boeing built a plane that dropped out of the sky and the Dreamliner was an absolute disaster. Lockheed Martin built a plane that is a trillion dollar white elephant. Have you seen how bad some car brands build quality has gotten? $1000 flag ship phones don't have a place to plug your headphones in.

Elites talk about build back better and all these grand ideas for net zero and unicorn farts meanwhile the basic infrastructure is degrading faster than it can be repaired. The rot in our civilisation is terminal. Your average corporate manager or politician wouldn't even be able to understand this kind of conversation. They're like the retarded child on the floor trying to shove a square through a circular hole because squares were the only ideology they were told about by an authority figure in school.

I give us a 50/50 chance of being able to come out on the other side of this. We'll have a considerably lower standard of living. We'll miss things about our lives back in the 20th century. The world will be chaotic and probably more violent but it's better than a life time of technological slavery. At the very least I think the globalists may have over reached somewhat and may end up having to write certain provinces of the empire off to "barbarians" much as the Romans did.