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20,978 views • 28 days ago

“This isn’t a redistribution of wealth. This is an investment in the future.” Trump’s Treasury Department Secretary’s counselor Joseph Lavorgna addresses concerns I have with the 'Trump Accounts' program: “The money is going back into the capitalist system. It’s not consumption. When we think ‘redistribution,’ we’re thinking giving people money to spend. This is money to invest. The only way we’re going to be able to deal with the debt situation is to grow, and to grow fast. It’s a way to build wealth, have a stake in the system and generate policies that are positive for the corporate sector because the corporate sector is the one that hires people, and giving people the American Dream, the ability to reach a higher rung. The cost over a 10-year period is just under $15B. That’s not a lot for a real payoff for people to have an incentive in the system for the US economy to thrive.”
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“This isn’t a redistribution of wealth. This is an investment in the future.” Trump’s Treasury Department Secretary’s counselor Joseph Lavorgna addresses concerns I have with the 'Trump Accounts' program: “The money is going back into the capitalist system. It’s not consumption. When we think ‘redistribution,’ we’re thinking giving people money to spend. This is money to invest. The only way we’re going to be able to deal with the debt situation is to grow, and to grow fast. It’s a way to build wealth, have a stake in the system and generate policies that are positive for the corporate sector because the corporate sector is the one that hires people, and giving people the American Dream, the ability to reach a higher rung. The cost over a 10-year period is just under $15B. That’s not a lot for a real payoff for people to have an incentive in the system for the US economy to thrive.”

Glenn Beck

49,059 views • 11 months ago

Eric Weinstein just described the end of the mapped life. For ten thousand years, humans had to earn the right to exist. Pick a noun. Become the noun. Die as the noun. Accountant. Teacher. Radiologist. The box had a name. You climbed inside and stayed until retirement or death. Weinstein: “Every occupation that is named is over.” Not automated. Not replaced. Named. You picked a noun. It told the world who you were. Then it told you who you were. If your future has a title your parents recognize, that future is already dissolving beneath you. Weinstein: “A tsunami of a lifetime is coming and nothing your elders have seen is gonna prepare you.” People hear this and assume it’s about unemployment. It’s not. It’s about identity. The machines aren’t absorbing tasks. They’re dissolving the categories we built ourselves around. You spent your whole life becoming a noun. The noun is about to stop existing. When the label disappears, what’s left of you? Weinstein: “Get flexible. Get good on a bunch of different stuff. Learn how to think across disciplines.” Stop being a noun. Start being a verb. But the most important thing Weinstein said has nothing to do with strategy. It touches something much older. Something closer to the bone. In a world where AI is world-class at everything, what is the point of a human being? Weinstein: “I think you should be able to just have a life. I have a golden retriever. I don’t know that it’s the greatest golden retriever in the world.” For ten thousand years, human worth was measured by output. How much you could lift. How fast you could think. How much value you could squeeze from a single day. We trained ourselves to think like machines because machines didn’t exist yet. Now they do. And they will be better than us at every measurable thing. Most people hear that and feel terror. They should feel something closer to relief. When a machine can do it better, the metric dies. When the metric dies, the cage opens. You were never supposed to be a spreadsheet. You were never supposed to justify your breath with a job title. Your golden retriever doesn’t optimize. It doesn’t produce quarterly earnings. It doesn’t prove it’s worth to anyone. It just lives. And you love it anyway. That was always the offer. We just couldn’t afford it. Now we can. We spent ten thousand years trying to prove we were machines. The machines just arrived to tell us we never had to be.
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Eric Weinstein just described the end of the mapped life. For ten thousand years, humans had to earn the right to exist. Pick a noun. Become the noun. Die as the noun. Accountant. Teacher. Radiologist. The box had a name. You climbed inside and stayed until retirement or death. Weinstein: “Every occupation that is named is over.” Not automated. Not replaced. Named. You picked a noun. It told the world who you were. Then it told you who you were. If your future has a title your parents recognize, that future is already dissolving beneath you. Weinstein: “A tsunami of a lifetime is coming and nothing your elders have seen is gonna prepare you.” People hear this and assume it’s about unemployment. It’s not. It’s about identity. The machines aren’t absorbing tasks. They’re dissolving the categories we built ourselves around. You spent your whole life becoming a noun. The noun is about to stop existing. When the label disappears, what’s left of you? Weinstein: “Get flexible. Get good on a bunch of different stuff. Learn how to think across disciplines.” Stop being a noun. Start being a verb. But the most important thing Weinstein said has nothing to do with strategy. It touches something much older. Something closer to the bone. In a world where AI is world-class at everything, what is the point of a human being? Weinstein: “I think you should be able to just have a life. I have a golden retriever. I don’t know that it’s the greatest golden retriever in the world.” For ten thousand years, human worth was measured by output. How much you could lift. How fast you could think. How much value you could squeeze from a single day. We trained ourselves to think like machines because machines didn’t exist yet. Now they do. And they will be better than us at every measurable thing. Most people hear that and feel terror. They should feel something closer to relief. When a machine can do it better, the metric dies. When the metric dies, the cage opens. You were never supposed to be a spreadsheet. You were never supposed to justify your breath with a job title. Your golden retriever doesn’t optimize. It doesn’t produce quarterly earnings. It doesn’t prove it’s worth to anyone. It just lives. And you love it anyway. That was always the offer. We just couldn’t afford it. Now we can. We spent ten thousand years trying to prove we were machines. The machines just arrived to tell us we never had to be.

Dustin

454,114 views • 7 months ago