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People need to figuring out how to horde as much wealth as possible right now in the next 2-3 years. Jobs especially for knowledge workers are about to disappear.
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I’m targeting maximum debt by about 2030. I’d rather have all the stuff I want while we try and build a new version of a functioning economy than have a ton of cash saved up.
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It's funny we're possibly entering a golden age of thought, the dreams of the ancients, but we're all worried about capitalism, I think the problem is pretty obvious.
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Maybe a golden age of thought for the machines, but possibly (I would even say likely on the current trajectory) a dark age for humanity.
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I don't know, I get more work done now in a few hours than I used to in a day, so maybe the working week should be shrunk, that would solve things. The solution seems pretty easy - but then I'm not in the US.
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This would be a largely positive solution for humanity, as long as AI remains "just an assistant". I don't think that we are heading that way. It's possible that, at some point, when the time you save becomes comparable to your full working week, your employer (or your clients, if you are self-employed) will discover that you are just a proxy between them and prompting directly the AI. Of course, if your job involves physical labour or requires physical presence or taking legal responsibility for something, you'll be fine for a bit longer (well, comparatively fine in a society plagued by widespread unemployment and social unrest).
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I’ve been thinking this as well. I imagine there is a wealth level x such that someone can escape the coming ubi welfare state. Anything under that you are fucked.
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What do you mean by escape the UBI welfare state. Wouldn’t the UBI welfare state be the best case scenario?
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Only if you believe that subsistence is ideal.
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How? Are you thinking just normie savings or something post-money?
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Predictions of mass layoffs from AI have been about as wrong so far as predictions of AI plateauing.
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Not really. 93,116 tech employees laid off due to AI in 2026.

https://layoffs.fyi/ai-layoffs/

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Purportedly due to AI, also a good reason to lay off people if you're company wants to save money but you don't want to spook investors.
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Companies will blame layoffs on literally anything in order to disguise the real reasons, if it suits their interests.
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