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[kidu @kidusmegbaru]

@Starlink @AAU_Official

[Chris @ChrisGPT]

I saw an interesting post earlier that said if this video is solved, we’ve solved robotics, and that if this video was fake, we’ve also solved robotics.

Because the quality of the video is so high-quality that even if it was AI, we’ve essentially solved AI video

[Figure @Figure_robot]

Introducing Helix 02

It's our most powerful model to date - it's using the whole body to do dishes end-to-end and it's fully autonomous

[David Shapiro (L/0) @DaveShapi]

What happens when AGI nukes jobs?

Let's look at the macroeconomics of the future!

Have you ever stopped to ask how money actually gets into your pocket? Not the work you do to earn it, but the actual plumbing of the economy that pushes purchasing power from the top of the financial system down to your bank account. Right now, that plumbing is designed around a single, potentially fragile pipe called the job market. And that pipe may be about to spring some serious leaks.

In our current system, the circulation of money is what economists might call labor-mediated. It starts at the top with the Federal Reserve and the banking system, which create liquidity and lend it to businesses. Those businesses take that capital and, crucially, hire people. This is the critical transmission step that makes everything else possible. The primary mechanism for distributing money to regular households is wages. You sell your time, the business pays you, and that is how purchasing power reaches the bottom of the pyramid.

The entire system relies on a core assumption: that businesses need human labor to grow. When companies borrow money to expand, they hire more people, and money circulates through the economy. Households spend their wages, businesses earn revenue, and the cycle continues. It is an elegant design that has powered industrial economies for over a century.

But we are entering an era where that foundational assumption is beginning to fail. As automation and artificial intelligence allow companies to produce more with fewer people, the link between business growth and hiring weakens. A company can now take a loan to deploy a fleet of robots or implement a sophisticated AI system and produce massive value without hiring a single new employee. The productivity gains are real, but the wages never materialize.

This creates a structural problem that goes beyond unemployment statistics. When the wage pipe narrows, money gets stuck at the corporate level or circulates only among asset owners. The purchasing power that once flowed to millions of households instead pools in corporate treasuries and financial markets. The money exists, but the transmission mechanism that delivers it to ordinary people is broken.

This is the core economic challenge of what some are calling the post-labor economy. It is not that there will be no jobs at all, but that jobs will cease to be the reliable, universal distribution mechanism for economic participation. If we do not redesign the plumbing, we risk an economy where productivity soars while most people are locked out of the gains.

The framework of Post-Labor Economics proposes a fundamentally different way to wire the machine. Instead of relying on wages to move money to people, we shift to a capital-mediated cycle. In this new regime, the circulation of money can bypass the labor market entirely when necessary. The value generated by automated production does not just sit in corporate treasuries. Instead, it flows into shared ownership vehicles like sovereign wealth funds, social wealth funds, and community asset trusts.

The key insight here is that ownership becomes the new channel for distribution. Rather than earning income by selling labor time, households receive income because they hold a stake in the productive machinery of society. When the robots get more productive, ordinary people get paid more, not less. This is not redistribution in the traditional sense. It is a redesign of who owns what and how returns flow.

This shift also requires new infrastructure. Open payment rails and digital public infrastructure become essential for sending money directly to citizen wallets. Think of systems like India’s UPI or Brazil’s Pix, which can move small payments to millions of people instantly and cheaply. Without this kind of infrastructure, distributing dividends to an entire population would be slow, expensive, and dependent on private gatekeepers who extract fees at every step.

The tax base must also evolve. You cannot fund a society by taxing payrolls if there are no payrolls. Post-Labor Economics proposes shifting the tax base from labor income toward land, resources, data, and automation itself. Levies on the value added by machines, land value taxes that capture economic rent, and resource royalties become the new foundation of public revenue. This money is then recycled back into the shared ownership vehicles that pay out to citizens.

One of the most important effects of this redesign is maintaining what economists call the velocity of money. In the current system, if money concentrates among the wealthy, velocity drops because rich people cannot possibly spend all their income. They save it, and it sits idle in financial assets. By systematically moving money from high-saving entities like corporations and billionaires to high-consuming entities like ordinary households, the new system keeps money circulating through the real economy.

Think of it as building a permanent detour around a blocked road. Today, if the job market is blocked by automation, the flow of money stops reaching households, and the economy stalls. Demand collapses, businesses lose customers, and a vicious cycle begins. In a Post-Labor Economics world, we build a direct line from national productivity to your digital wallet, ensuring the economy keeps moving even when traditional employment contracts.

The Federal Reserve and central banks still manage the supply of money at the top. The basic mechanics of monetary policy do not disappear. But the path that money takes to get to you changes fundamentally. It stops being primarily a reward for labor you perform and starts being a dividend on the society you help constitute. It is a shift from earning your keep to owning your share.

This is not utopian speculation. It is a structural necessity for an economy that wants to keep functioning as technology reshapes the relationship between capital and labor. The question is not whether we will need new distribution mechanisms, but whether we will build them in time. The plumbing of the twentieth-century economy served us well, but the water pressure is changing. We need new pipes.

[kidu @kidusmegbaru]

@flyethiopian https://t.co/IJNpJMOtd7
when ET?

[kidu @kidusmegbaru]

@emirates @Starlink @DubaiAirshow @flyethiopian

[kidu @kidusmegbaru]

@SawyerMerritt @Starlink @flyethiopian

[kidu @kidusmegbaru]

@elonmusk 🇪🇹 < 🇸🇴 @eca_ethiopia

[Orikron 🇵🇹 骆培思 @orikron]

🇨🇳 China's fully self-driving electric tractor, the Honghu T70.

It can handle the *entire farm cycle* from plowing to sowing to care to cropping, while collecting real-time data on soil conditions.

It's already hard at work in the fields of Hebei and soon in the whole country.

[Jason Smith - 上官杰文 @ShangguanJiewen]

Completely automated farming from the soil to the produce section is already becoming reality in China.

While this still onl represents a tiny minority of Chinese agricultural activity, at "China Speed," this will be ubiquitous in less than a decade...

[kidu @kidusmegbaru]

@stats_feed @grok Hey, @grok, who was the most famous person to visit my profile?

[Tesla @Tesla]

World's first autonomous delivery of a car!

This Tesla drove itself from Gigafactory Texas to its new owner's home ~30min away — crossing parking lots, highways & the city to reach its new owner

[Rishabh @Rixhabh__]

8.

[Tesla Optimus @Tesla_Optimus]

I’m not just dancing all day, ok

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

I am so freaking bullish for Unitree. It’s stunning how fast their robots are improving over such short period of time.
I can very well see that by 2027 millions of people have household robots at home

[kidu @kidusmegbaru]

@cline AutoCAD

[kidu @kidusmegbaru]

@BitcoinBirr do it for ETHIOPIA too @KalKassa

[kidu @kidusmegbaru]

@projectmano @PMEthiopia @AbiyAhmedAli @EthioInvestment @EIHEthiopia @btaye

[Project Mano | ማኖ 🇪🇹 @projectmano]

ETHIOPIA, listen to the Prime Minister of Bhutan talk about how implementing a strategy similar to Project Mano's proposals of STATE owned Bitcoin mining to fund a National Bitcoin Reserve has transformed their country and allowed them to make over 1.5bn$, modernize their nation, and allowed funding for things the state couldn't provide previously in 2 years.

Bhutan used a 100MW mining facility and within a couple years managed to make 1.2bn$, and likely a lot more as Bitcoin price grows in their reserve. Ethiopia sold 600MW for an insulting 50m$ for foreign Bitcoin miners. Lets just compare the numbers, for almost 1/6th of the power we sold, they managed to make almost 20x what Ethiopia made selling power for pennies.

Why are we sleeping on an insane & ONCE IN A WHILE opportunity to transform the country? Why do we pick 50m$ over billions of dollars and an opportunity to have a national bitcoin reserve for almost no cost? WHY WHY WHY?!

WHY ARE WE OBSESSED WITH GIVING AWAY THE PUBLIC'S RESOURCE, TAX-FUNDED POWER MEANT FOR THE PUBLIC, TO FOREIGN BITCOIN MINERS?!

This is fiat imperialism under a mask of "Bitcoin adoption"! There is NO BITCOIN adoption in Ethiopia, there is ONLY foreign miners pillaging a poor nation's tax-payer funded energy infrastructure and pay 1/20th the profit the public would make doing it itself.

It all smells like corruption. the people allowing foreigners to come pillage this country are robbing one of the biggest opportunity costs of the nation. We need to ask "How much tax did ethiopians pay to create a STATE power infrastructure to generate 600MW, what is the opportunity cost of the public and the state not using that much power?" - THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE NEED TO ASK.

It costs us more than 50m$ of tax payer fund to generate that much power, it costs our public opportunities when energy that could be sent to their home is sold for scraps! Under no perspective does it make sense to sell the power to foreign bitcoin miners! KICK THEM OUT! Implement STATE level Bitcoin mining. THE ONLY SENSIBLE THING TO DO!

WHY can't we be more like Bhutan? we have more energy, we have more problems, we have more opportunity? WHY ARE WE OBSESSED WITH FOREIGN BITCOIN MINERS? IT IS A SHAME IT HASN'T BEEN IMPLEMENTED YET. IT IS AN INSULT TO THE PUBLIC!

LISTEN TO BHUTAN! DON'T LISTEN TO THE SCAMMERS AND GRIFTERS, they all just care about their own wallets at a cost of the public. WAKE UP ETHIOPIA!

[Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine]

JUST IN: 🇻🇳 Bhutan’s PM tells how strategic #Bitcoin reserve helped finance their nation’s expenses 🙌