Yes, the ruling elite want to keep everyone dumbed-down, non-enlightened, non-thinking and in as much suffering as they will accept.

However, things are not going to work out as they plan.
There is a global awakening.

Soon, people will stop sending money to the IRS.
Control system everywhere will just break down.

And all it takes is realizing one thing.
You can't negotiate with terrorists.

T.H.E.Y. want you dead, or worse. (mostly its the or worse, you being dead is such a waste)
And we need to realize that T.H.E.Y. cannot be negotiated with. We cannot vote for the lesser of two evils.
We cannot say, "please stop"

T.H.E.Y. have no empathy so T.H.E.Y. won't stop, just keep pressing forward with more and more draconian measures. And T.H.E.Y. will never deliver on their promises.

When we realize this, we will just ignore them. (Many other planets kill them. They do not suffer psychopaths to live among them. Some other planets electrically kill that ego)

The difference today vs things like the Gulags is that we are much more connected. We will learn when people disappear much more quickly.

That is an interesting list of things on your wish list.
Why do you want such things?

Instead of getting a box with an inverter and battery inside of it, why do you not get some better batteries and a separate inverter. Knowing how to connect them up is a good skill.

The parts are cheaper than the all in one thingy.

Buy a solar panel, a battery and a small inverter. Light some lights.
Then grow your system.

You will spend far less money and have a far better system, and more knowledge.