The issue with that argument is that with free energy, we can start properly applying concepts of UBI and dare I say it socialist policies and collapsing that part of the economy in a good way, globally.

Revealing it at a pace the world can handle just means that the people in control now can keep being in control while they find ways of controlling it. Yes it would wipe out a big part of our way of life, but it’s the bad part anyway, the part that is pretty rapidly killing us