Jeff Bezos just bet $12 billion that you'll be able to support your whole family on a single paycheck again.
his reasoning: AI will let companies make more stuff with fewer people and less money.
and when something gets cheaper and easier to produce, and lots of companies can do it, they compete and the price drops.
it's why a flatscreen TV that cost $2,000 a decade ago is $300 today.
bezos thinks AI will do that to almost everything you buy.
in his words, it raises "the basket of goods people can afford."
your paycheck buys more without anyone handing you a raise.
the problem: look at which prices have actually dropped.
so far, AI has only made *digital* things cheap, like code and content.
but the stuff that really eats your paycheck is *physical*.
rent, cars, medicine. cheaper code doesn't lower your rent.
that's exactly what bezos just spent $12B on.
Prometheus, his new company, is building AI tools that help engineers design and manufacture physical products faster
things like cars, machines, and medicine.
the goal is to make building physical things as fast and cheap as writing software.
if it works, 1 income starts covering what used to take 2.
which is when his prediction kicks in:
"perhaps one of those earners will choose not to be in the job market, so they'll become a one-earner household." or "some people who are working overtime will stop working overtime, because they don't want to."
one paycheck covering a whole family again, like the 1950s.
Jensen Huang just said he'd hire an AI-fluent college grad over one with no AI skills. Every single time.
Accountant, lawyer, marketer, salesperson, doesn't matter.
AI expertise is now the baseline qualification.
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Why President Trump Earns My Respect
I come from Papua New Guinea - a Christian nation where faith, family, and responsibility are not abstract ideas, but lived realities. That lens shapes how I judge leaders. Not by charisma. Not by headlines. But by whether they defend the moral foundations that keep civilizations standing.
Donald Trump does.
He understands something many Western elites have forgotten: government is not God. In Scripture, authority exists to restrain chaos, reward good, and protect what is entrusted to it - not to replace faith, erase family, or redefine truth for political convenience.
Strong nations are built on order, not confusion.
On families, not fragmentation.
On borders, not open-ended surrender dressed up as virtue.
Under Trump, Christianity was not treated as an inconvenience to be managed or a threat to be neutralized.
Faith was respected.
Parents mattered.
Work mattered.
Moral responsibility mattered. Society was not told that strength was toxic or that obedience to timeless principles was oppression such as the value of motherhood.
That matters to people like me - because when the West abandons its values, the consequences don’t stay in the West.
The Bible speaks clearly about stewardship. You protect what you’re responsible for. A nation that refuses to guard its borders, its workers, its resources, and its moral order is not compassionate - it is negligent. And negligence always invites disorder.
Trump rejects the ideology of globalism because globalism dissolves accountability. It asks nations to sacrifice their people, their industries, and their sovereignty to unelected interests that answer to no culture, no faith, and no moral standard. That model weakens America - and when America weakens, the entire Western framework weakens with it.
A strong America means a stable West.
A stable West means balance in the world.
And that balance protects smaller nations like Papua New Guinea from being economically, culturally, or strategically swallowed by powers that do not share our values.
This isn’t about worshiping a man. Scripture warns against that.
It’s about recognizing leadership that chooses principle over applause.
Trump is not polished. He is not perfect. But he is honest about the battle - and he refuses to call moral decay “progress” or national surrender “enlightenment.”
You don’t need to be American to see what’s at stake.
Without faith, family, order, and sovereignty, no nation endures.
Without a strong America grounded in those principles, the world becomes far more dangerous for everyone else.
That is why I respect President Trump - not as a celebrity, but as a leader who understands that values are not optional, and that when the foundations are destroyed, the righteous have nothing left to stand on.
This is the greatest time to be a developer. 🔥
I know it sounds weird because of the way AI automates a lot but I shit you not, a lot of people outside the SWE world are far away from adopting it the way devs have caught on!
A 79 year-old President Trump stood there for virtually two hours taking questions from the press. That’s some physical & mental agility.
Something your favorites can never pull off.
Love or hate him? That’s absolutely fine. It is your right to do, & I don’t expect you to stop.
People loathe what they don’t understand. But you cannot deny that you’re enthralled by the one who doesn’t shy away from the media.
He taps into his inner man.
He is never afraid to be frank.
You loathe him, but you just cannot have enough of him. You find yourself drawn to his speech; what he’s got to say. He intrigues & captivates his audiences. You always want to hear him speak, despite the acrimony.
You find yourself always checking for his latest addresses, because anything he says becomes newsworthy. It moves markets, & shifts/shapes major decisions taken around the world.
It’s as if your lifeblood is connected to him. You draw your oxygen from talking about him. You even sell materials attached to him, because that’s the only thing people really wanna hear.
Without him, how can you live with yourself?
I don’t suppose you know what else to do.
I was once like you. I was one of those that misunderstood & loathed his confidence. One of those who misunderstood his priorities. I thought the man must be out of his mind. Now I find myself drawn to everything he’s got to say.
Love or hate him, enthralled or bored by him, inspired or enraged by him, nobody can deny that President Trump is the most open president in history when it comes to speaking to the media. He never stops!
This has been said a thousand times before, but allow me to add my own voice: the era of humans writing code is over. Disturbing for those of us who identify as SWEs, but no less true. That's not to say SWEs don't have work to do, but writing syntax directly is not it.
Curious: In Nigeria, which would creates a more lasting impact with $300k 🤔
1) Build a business that hires 100 people
2) Fund 100 people $3k each to start a business
3) Fund 30 people with $5k–$7k each and put $60k–$100k into support(training, procurement, emergency buffer).
Pastor Jerry of NSPPD has revealed that his NGO will give out a $300,000 grant to 100 beneficiaries in 2026.
This is commendable.
The same way we criticise pastors who live in lavish luxury, we should praise pastors who do well.
God bless P. Jerry Eze.