looking to exit the maze. The future is bright and full of possibilities. Enjoy the moments on the journey. In control of my own mind. Seeking Understanding.
Elon Musk just described a future where no one is poor, no one works, and no one knows why they’re alive.
Musk: “It wouldn’t be Universal Basic Income, it would be Universal High Income.”
Every material need met for every human on Earth. Not survival. Total abundance.
Then he asked the question no one else will touch.
Musk: “If the AI can do everything that you can do, but better, then what is the point of doing things?”
Everyone else in AI is arguing about jobs. Musk is asking what happens when survival is solved and nothing replaces it.
The machines don’t just take the work. They take the thing that put us to work.
Necessity.
You built because you’d freeze. You fought because you’d die. You provided because the people you loved would starve without you.
Every advance in human history was an attempt to escape that pressure. We’re about to succeed.
You’ve already felt it go. A week with nothing required of you, and by the fourth day something in you starts to come loose.
You call it boredom. It’s you finding out how much of you was made of being needed.
You can simulate the work. You cannot simulate the need.
Rome already ran this experiment. Citizens outsourced war to mercenaries. Labor to slaves. Purpose to spectacle. The empire didn’t collapse from invasion. It dissolved from comfort.
But Rome only automated muscle. AI automates mind.
You don’t fear being replaced. You fear being released.
Not that the machines will take everything from us.
That they’ll give us everything we ever wanted.
And prove the wanting was the point.
In order to be successful, you have to do five things. There’s a sequence to it.
1. Have (audacious) goals.
2. Identify and don't tolerate problems.
3. Diagnose the problems to get at their root causes.
4. Design a path to fix those things.
5. Push through to results.
This is what I call looping. Go for your goals, identify your problems, get to the root cause, design a path, and push through. Life is basically just doing that over and over again. If you do that, you'll make the advances.
#Principles #RayDalio #PersonalGrowth
The single richest man in America personally bankrolled the Revolution, kept Washington's army alive with his own money, and then died broke in a debtors' prison. The man who funded the country got thrown in jail for being poor. Meet Robert Morris.
If the United States has a financial founding father, it's this guy, and almost nobody knows his name.
He was born in Liverpool, England, in 1734 and came to America as a 13 year old boy. He got into the shipping business in Philadelphia and was so good at it that by 1775 he was likely the wealthiest man in all of the colonies. Ships, trade, credit, money moving everywhere. He was the money.
Here's the wild part. At first he didn't even want to declare independence. He thought it was premature and voted against rushing into it. But once the decision was made, he didn't hedge. He signed the Declaration of Independence and threw his entire fortune behind the cause.
And thank God he did, because the young country was flat broke. The army was starving, unpaid, falling apart. So Morris did something almost nobody would do. He used his own personal credit and his own personal cash to keep the war going. When Washington needed money to march on Yorktown for the campaign that basically won the war, Morris helped raise it, at times pledging his own name and fortune to cover it. He became known as the Financier of the Revolution, and it's not an exaggeration. He kept the lights on.
He's also one of only two men to sign all three of America's founding documents, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. When Washington offered to make him the very first Treasury Secretary, Morris turned it down and pointed him to a young Alexander Hamilton instead.
Now the tragedy. After the war, Morris poured everything into massive land speculation, betting enormous sums on the future of the country. The bets went bad. Spectacularly bad. He ended up owing something like three million dollars, a genuinely staggering fortune for the time.
And so, in 1798, the man who had personally financed American independence was locked in a debtors' prison in Philadelphia. He sat in that cell for years. The Financier of the Revolution, penniless, behind bars, while the country he'd funded moved on without him.
He finally got out around 1801, aided by a new bankruptcy law, and lived quietly and broke until his death in 1806.
A man who was richer than anyone, gave it to a nation, and died with nothing.
Robert Morris. He bought America's freedom and went bankrupt doing it.
@Chesschick01 The future is bright and coming fast!!!
Most people don’t understand that the investment over the past 30 years is currently being realized. All at once many new technologies coming online.
Humanity will advance more in the next five years than we did in the last Thousand!!!!
@spencerpratt Unfortunately a lot of people don’t understand the evil they invent into their minds. We are all capable of amazing things. But if you listened to the communist propaganda it’s designed to destroy your ambitions and make you reliant on the government/state that wants you to die!
@adamcarolla The truth is actually very sad because anyone who is capable of making 3 world a better place wants to come to America. So the shit hole remains 💩
Wish other countries could have a 1776 moment
@FBIDirectorKash Listen I think no can understand what you’re dealing with on the job. I know you’re taking a lot of shit from people. And it would be easier to just walk away from it all. But you haven’t so I hope and pray you’re able to keep your word and make real change at the FBI. Good luck