WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.100 You know, we often try to understand the economy 00:00:02.100 --> 00:00:04.500 the exact same way we try to understand, like, 00:00:04.559 --> 00:00:06.919 a broken bone. Oh, that's an interesting way 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:08.660 to put it. Yeah, I mean, we look for this clean 00:00:08.660 --> 00:00:11.320 x -ray. We want a chart or a graph that acts 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:13.960 just like that jagged white line on a negative, 00:00:14.140 --> 00:00:16.019 you know? Right, where an expert can just point 00:00:16.019 --> 00:00:18.600 right at it and say, oh, there, right there, 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:21.140 that's the fracture. Exactly. Put a cast on it, 00:00:21.179 --> 00:00:23.379 wait six weeks, and we just go right back to 00:00:23.379 --> 00:00:26.629 normal. It is a super comforting way to view 00:00:26.629 --> 00:00:29.609 the world, honestly. We really crave that binary 00:00:29.609 --> 00:00:32.170 categorization, broken or not broken. Right. 00:00:32.310 --> 00:00:34.509 Employed or unemployed. Growing or shrinking. 00:00:34.710 --> 00:00:38.390 But when you step into the actual reality of 00:00:38.390 --> 00:00:40.789 the economic and societal transformation we're 00:00:40.789 --> 00:00:43.329 undergoing right now, that medical x -ray metaphor 00:00:43.329 --> 00:00:45.130 just completely falls apart. It really does. 00:00:45.250 --> 00:00:47.390 We aren't looking at a broken bone anymore. We 00:00:47.390 --> 00:00:51.649 are looking at a tectonic plate shift. Yeah. 00:00:52.090 --> 00:00:54.530 And you can't exactly x -ray a tectonic plate. 00:00:54.689 --> 00:00:57.530 No, you can't. The pressure builds up silently 00:00:57.530 --> 00:01:00.789 for decades, miles beneath the surface. And the 00:01:00.789 --> 00:01:02.649 old tools we use to measure the health of our 00:01:02.649 --> 00:01:05.849 society, job creation numbers, labor participation 00:01:05.849 --> 00:01:08.930 rates, the standard 40 -hour work week. They're 00:01:08.930 --> 00:01:10.930 essentially like thermometers trying to measure 00:01:10.930 --> 00:01:13.780 an earthquake. Yes. That's exactly it. They are 00:01:13.780 --> 00:01:16.280 completely failing to capture the reality of 00:01:16.280 --> 00:01:18.680 the patient. It's an incredibly apt way to frame 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:20.980 it. It's the absolute definition of diagnostic 00:01:20.980 --> 00:01:23.659 muddy waters. I mean, we are applying the diagnostic 00:01:23.659 --> 00:01:26.359 tools of the industrial age to an era that is 00:01:26.359 --> 00:01:28.620 just fundamentally alien to it. Completely alien. 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:32.099 That brings us to the monumental mission for 00:01:32.099 --> 00:01:34.459 our deep dive today. I want to warmly welcome 00:01:34.459 --> 00:01:37.579 you, yes you, listening to us right now because 00:01:37.579 --> 00:01:40.579 today we are continuing our special ongoing coverage 00:01:40.579 --> 00:01:43.299 of an unprecedented series. And this is a massive 00:01:43.299 --> 00:01:45.859 one. It is. Today the focus is entirely on part 00:01:45.859 --> 00:01:48.920 22 of the Read Multiplex series, which is authored 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:51.420 by Brian Rommel. And the title alone, I mean, 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:53.159 it really sets the stage. It's called You Have 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:56.480 5 ,000 Days, Navigating the End of Work As We 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:59.280 Know It, Part 22, After Universal High Income. 00:01:59.549 --> 00:02:01.609 It is a really heavy title, but it's absolutely 00:02:01.609 --> 00:02:03.950 necessary. It carries so much weight because 00:02:03.950 --> 00:02:05.950 it forces a hard timeline onto a conversation 00:02:05.950 --> 00:02:08.870 that most people just treat as like a distant 00:02:08.870 --> 00:02:10.669 sci -fi abstraction. Right. They think it's 50 00:02:10.669 --> 00:02:13.250 years away. Yeah. And I have to say, with genuine 00:02:13.250 --> 00:02:17.289 enthusiasm, absolutely no one. has approached 00:02:17.289 --> 00:02:20.710 this potential societal crisis to the level brian 00:02:20.710 --> 00:02:23.750 has nobody the scope and depth are totally unmatched 00:02:23.750 --> 00:02:27.090 unmatched and uh here's a quick bit of housekeeping 00:02:27.090 --> 00:02:28.969 that i think is super vital to mention right 00:02:28.969 --> 00:02:32.620 at the top major corporations massive hedge funds, 00:02:32.699 --> 00:02:34.500 the people at the absolute top of the financial 00:02:34.500 --> 00:02:36.979 food chain. They usually pay people like Brian 00:02:36.979 --> 00:02:39.539 thousands and thousands of dollars for these 00:02:39.539 --> 00:02:42.340 exact insights. Oh, easily. But he is providing 00:02:42.340 --> 00:02:45.120 this entire roadmap, this whole survival guide 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:47.740 for humanity to you completely for free. It's 00:02:47.740 --> 00:02:50.240 a remarkably democratic way to distribute highly 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:52.620 leveraged information, really. It really is. 00:02:52.699 --> 00:02:54.759 It is brought to you by the members of the Reed 00:02:54.759 --> 00:02:57.580 Multiplex site. And I just want to warmly suggest 00:02:57.580 --> 00:03:00.770 that if you find value in this deep dive. If 00:03:00.770 --> 00:03:02.449 this helps you understand the ground shifting 00:03:02.449 --> 00:03:05.030 beneath your feet, it is definitely worth buying 00:03:05.030 --> 00:03:07.689 Brian a cup of coffee or supporting the site. 00:03:07.870 --> 00:03:10.330 Absolutely. He is actively mapping out the terrain 00:03:10.330 --> 00:03:12.969 for us. And we desperately need that map right 00:03:12.969 --> 00:03:16.330 now. So to set the philosophical stage for the 00:03:16.330 --> 00:03:18.830 specifics we are going to cover today, humanity 00:03:18.830 --> 00:03:21.030 is currently entering what the Reed Multiplex 00:03:21.030 --> 00:03:24.129 defines as the abundance interregnum. Right. 00:03:24.250 --> 00:03:26.990 Now, an interregnum, just historically speaking, 00:03:27.289 --> 00:03:30.090 is traditionally a period when normal government 00:03:30.090 --> 00:03:33.229 is suspended, usually between successive reigns 00:03:33.229 --> 00:03:35.629 or regimes. Like the death of one king and the 00:03:35.629 --> 00:03:37.469 crowning of the next. Exactly. And the middle, 00:03:37.530 --> 00:03:39.830 you just have chaos. A total void waiting to 00:03:39.830 --> 00:03:42.490 be filled. Yeah. But here we are talking about 00:03:42.490 --> 00:03:45.229 a suspended state between two entirely different 00:03:45.229 --> 00:03:47.930 economic eras. And I want to explicitly frame 00:03:47.930 --> 00:03:51.069 this as a passing storm. It is a collective dark 00:03:51.069 --> 00:03:54.530 night of the soul period. as a species. The stakes 00:03:54.530 --> 00:03:56.889 laid out here are immense, though. Oh, they are 00:03:56.889 --> 00:04:00.009 existential. We either get through this turbulent 00:04:00.009 --> 00:04:03.830 transition in roughly 5000 days, which, by the 00:04:03.830 --> 00:04:06.789 way, is a little under 14 years. Wow. Not that 00:04:06.789 --> 00:04:08.590 long at all. Not at all. We either make it through 00:04:08.590 --> 00:04:12.889 or we risk a catastrophic 2000 year Flintstones 00:04:12.889 --> 00:04:15.490 restart. OK, wait, let's pause on that. A Flintstones 00:04:15.490 --> 00:04:18.269 restart. Yeah. That implies that if we mismanage 00:04:18.269 --> 00:04:27.889 this transition. Yes. Literally starting over. 00:04:28.009 --> 00:04:30.509 We lose the technological gains. We lose the 00:04:30.509 --> 00:04:32.949 power grid. Because the transition out of scarcity 00:04:32.949 --> 00:04:35.769 threatens the very power structures that maintain 00:04:35.769 --> 00:04:38.449 our current order. If the social fabric tears 00:04:38.449 --> 00:04:40.490 apart because people lose their livelihoods and 00:04:40.490 --> 00:04:42.930 identities before the abundance fully comes online, 00:04:43.209 --> 00:04:45.089 you don't just get a normal recession. Right. 00:04:45.129 --> 00:04:47.290 You get a systemic collapse. Exactly. So the 00:04:47.290 --> 00:04:50.089 mission today is to map out exactly how we achieve 00:04:50.089 --> 00:04:53.269 the first scenario. How do we cross this chaotic 00:04:53.269 --> 00:04:55.470 bridge from the dying industrial age to this 00:04:55.470 --> 00:04:58.180 brilliant... new frontier of decentralized plenty. 00:04:58.420 --> 00:05:01.240 Okay, let's unpack this. Because to understand 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:04.420 this grand crossing, we really have to look at 00:05:04.420 --> 00:05:07.600 the immediate visible cracks in our current reality. 00:05:07.860 --> 00:05:10.040 Let's talk about the fracture itself. The end 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:12.680 of the escalator. Yes. Brian's opening premise 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:16.579 here is honestly chilling. The escalator of new 00:05:16.579 --> 00:05:19.199 jobs will appear has reached its final floor. 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:22.379 The ordinary world where your labor equals your 00:05:22.379 --> 00:05:24.879 worth, where your physical or cognitive output 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:27.600 is something a corporation buys from you, that 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:31.360 world is basically over. It is a profound psychological 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:34.300 shock, perhaps even more than an economic one 00:05:34.300 --> 00:05:36.160 at first. I mean, we have been conditioned for 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:38.959 centuries, really, since the dawn of agrarian 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:41.939 society to equate our fundamental human value 00:05:41.939 --> 00:05:44.660 with our economic output. Right. What do you 00:05:44.660 --> 00:05:46.959 do for a living is literally the first question 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:49.199 we ask when we meet someone at a party. Exactly. 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:51.279 It's how we measure each other. But wait, let 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:53.019 me play devil's advocate here, or at least push 00:05:53.019 --> 00:05:54.600 back, because I know what you listening are probably 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:57.180 thinking. History says otherwise. This sounds 00:05:57.180 --> 00:05:59.720 like the boy who cried wolf of economics, doesn't 00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:01.600 it? It's the most common reaction, yeah. Right, 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:03.399 because when steam engines came along, they replaced 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:05.439 farmers. But then those farmers just went to 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:07.879 factories and operated steam engines. Sure. Electricity 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:10.300 replaced steam power. Computers replace typists. 00:06:10.620 --> 00:06:13.839 Haven't we always, always just found new adjacent 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:17.839 jobs? I guess I'm asking, why is this time structurally 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:20.279 different? It is a very intuitive counter -argument. 00:06:20.750 --> 00:06:23.110 But it fundamentally misunderstands the mechanism 00:06:23.110 --> 00:06:25.810 of what is happening right now with AI. We have 00:06:25.810 --> 00:06:28.649 to look at Brian's specific data to dismantle 00:06:28.649 --> 00:06:30.889 this historical fallacy. OK, break that down 00:06:30.889 --> 00:06:32.529 for us. You have to understand the difference 00:06:32.529 --> 00:06:35.069 between substitution forces and complementary 00:06:35.069 --> 00:06:38.189 forces. Think of the economy like a giant ecosystem. 00:06:38.649 --> 00:06:40.990 In the past, as you mentioned, displacement was 00:06:40.990 --> 00:06:43.889 sectoral. Meaning confined to one sector. Right. 00:06:43.949 --> 00:06:46.790 One specific sector like agriculture or textiles 00:06:46.790 --> 00:06:49.810 modernized. That was like an invasive species. 00:06:50.189 --> 00:06:53.209 eating one very specific type of plant. But the 00:06:53.209 --> 00:06:56.050 complementary forces of a growing economy created 00:06:56.050 --> 00:07:00.089 entirely new adjacent sectors, new plants, to 00:07:00.089 --> 00:07:02.629 keep the metaphor going, to absorb that displaced 00:07:02.629 --> 00:07:06.209 labor. Ah, okay. Like the GI Bill working so 00:07:06.209 --> 00:07:08.829 brilliantly for millions of veterans because 00:07:08.829 --> 00:07:10.810 the post -war factories literally hungered for 00:07:10.810 --> 00:07:13.990 human hands. There was a physical adjacent place 00:07:13.990 --> 00:07:16.449 for them to go. Precisely. The new machine was 00:07:16.449 --> 00:07:18.370 a better tool, but it still absolutely needed 00:07:18.370 --> 00:07:21.189 a human to wield it. Today's displacement driven 00:07:21.189 --> 00:07:24.329 by advanced AI and robotics is not sectoral. 00:07:24.329 --> 00:07:26.959 It is systemic. Systemic displacement. Yeah. 00:07:26.980 --> 00:07:29.959 It is not an invasive species eating one plant. 00:07:30.220 --> 00:07:32.980 It is a fundamental change in the chemical composition 00:07:32.980 --> 00:07:36.240 of the soil itself. Goldman Sachs estimates that 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:39.459 40 % of U .S. jobs face high -risk AI displacement 00:07:39.459 --> 00:07:42.540 within a decade. 40%. And that isn't just about 00:07:42.540 --> 00:07:44.980 factory workers. It's accountants, paralegals, 00:07:45.019 --> 00:07:47.600 middle managers, copywriters, logistics coordinators. 00:07:47.779 --> 00:07:50.319 There is no hungry factory waiting to absorb 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:52.160 them. Because the machine isn't just a better 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:54.560 hammer anymore. It is replacing the cognitive 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:57.060 and physical routine entirely. Exactly. There 00:07:57.060 --> 00:07:59.620 is no adjacent category to move to because the 00:07:59.620 --> 00:08:01.720 new technology doesn't just augment the worker. 00:08:01.899 --> 00:08:04.920 It substitutes the worker completely. And the 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:07.120 corporate compression data highlighted in the 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:09.839 read multiplex makes this impossible to ignore. 00:08:10.300 --> 00:08:13.060 It is staggering when you look at the actual 00:08:13.060 --> 00:08:15.399 numbers. Like, let's look at AT &T. Oh, this 00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:18.420 is a perfect example. Back in 1964, AT &T was 00:08:18.420 --> 00:08:21.540 this massive titan of industry. And they needed, 00:08:21.680 --> 00:08:26.139 let me check the numbers, 758 ,611 workers to 00:08:26.139 --> 00:08:28.220 function. Over three quarters of a million people. 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:30.500 Yes. Hundreds of thousands of people running 00:08:30.500 --> 00:08:33.279 switchboards, laying copper cables, managing 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:36.240 human resources, processing payroll. It was a 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:39.360 massive, sprawling physical and human infrastructure. 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:44.480 Today, modern AT &T runs on roughly 133 ,000 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:47.539 employees. Which is a huge drop. It is. But even 00:08:47.539 --> 00:08:49.940 modern AT &T is an old world company. When you 00:08:49.940 --> 00:08:52.980 compare that 1964 AT &T to the modern tech giants, 00:08:53.220 --> 00:08:56.480 the disparity is wild. It really illustrates 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:58.159 the hollowing out of the labor force. Give us 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:00.080 the modern comparisons from the piece. Okay, 00:09:00.100 --> 00:09:03.259 so Instagram was acquired for $1 billion. Do 00:09:03.259 --> 00:09:04.480 you know how many employees they had when they 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:06.740 generated that billion dollars of value? 13. 00:09:06.740 --> 00:09:11.039 13 people. It's crazy. Just 13. WhatsApp fetched 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:15.340 $18 billion with just 35 engineers serving half 00:09:15.340 --> 00:09:18.899 a billion global users. And today, Apple generates 00:09:18.899 --> 00:09:22.200 nearly $2 million in revenue per single employee. 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:25.100 Yeah, the math is undeniable. The mechanism here 00:09:25.100 --> 00:09:27.779 is totally clear. Technology is no longer just 00:09:27.779 --> 00:09:30.039 making these companies faster or augmenting them. 00:09:30.139 --> 00:09:32.659 It is actively shrinking their headcounts towards 00:09:32.659 --> 00:09:35.639 zero. And that shrinkage represents the complete 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:38.419 decoupling of capital generation from human labor. 00:09:38.659 --> 00:09:41.460 A company can now scale to service a billion 00:09:41.460 --> 00:09:44.340 users without ever needing to hire 100 ,000 people. 00:09:44.679 --> 00:09:47.019 The complementary forces that used to create 00:09:47.019 --> 00:09:49.399 jobs, the old idea that a richer company will 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:51.740 automatically hire more people, are being entirely 00:09:51.740 --> 00:09:54.139 outcased by the substitution effect. They don't 00:09:54.139 --> 00:09:56.059 hire more people. No, they... just spin up more 00:09:56.059 --> 00:09:59.360 servers or deploy more AI agents. And we really 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:00.820 have to bring this back to the listener, to the 00:10:00.820 --> 00:10:03.320 everyday person. We can't just talk in billions 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:05.440 of dollars in macro trends. This is about the 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:08.159 45 -year -old logistics manager who has spent 00:10:08.159 --> 00:10:11.220 20 years perfecting supply chain routes, who 00:10:11.220 --> 00:10:14.600 walks into his warehouse and realizes an AI model 00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:17.179 can now optimize those routes in three seconds. 00:10:17.379 --> 00:10:20.200 And autonomous forklifts are moving the pallets. 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:23.970 Exactly. It is the new... college graduate whose 00:10:23.970 --> 00:10:27.070 entry -level coding or copywriting job, the very 00:10:27.070 --> 00:10:30.830 job they took on, like $60 ,000 of student debt 00:10:30.830 --> 00:10:33.309 to get, was automated before they even finished 00:10:33.309 --> 00:10:35.899 orientation. And we are already seeing the leading 00:10:35.899 --> 00:10:38.139 edge of this right now. The male labor force 00:10:38.139 --> 00:10:40.460 participation rate is quietly collapsing. Currently, 00:10:40.740 --> 00:10:43.799 one in six working age men are completely out 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:45.559 of the market. Not unemployed and looking for 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:48.179 work. Just gone. Just opted entirely. So when 00:10:48.179 --> 00:10:50.679 50 to 80 million middle class people suddenly 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:53.080 lose their paychecks, people who played by all 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:55.019 the rules, who went to school, who climbed the 00:10:55.019 --> 00:10:57.519 corporate ladder, the political reality in this 00:10:57.519 --> 00:11:00.110 country. and really globally, shifts instantly. 00:11:00.289 --> 00:11:02.309 Right, because you cannot have a consumer economy 00:11:02.309 --> 00:11:04.850 if the consumers have absolutely no income. Which 00:11:04.850 --> 00:11:07.250 brings us directly to Section 2, the political 00:11:07.250 --> 00:11:10.190 and economic reaction. When that massive population 00:11:10.190 --> 00:11:12.950 experiences the deep psychological trauma of 00:11:12.950 --> 00:11:15.129 losing their identity, combined with the sheer 00:11:15.129 --> 00:11:17.110 panic of not being able to feed their families, 00:11:17.470 --> 00:11:19.629 governments will really have no choice. No choice 00:11:19.629 --> 00:11:21.889 at all. They will have to deploy the only immediate 00:11:21.889 --> 00:11:24.750 Band -Aid available. And that Band -Aid is the 00:11:24.750 --> 00:11:27.980 UBI Bridge. The temporary cast for a broken system. 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:31.240 Universal basic income. Now, I want to be very 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:33.919 clear here because the term UBI carries a ton 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:35.960 of political baggage. It does. People have very 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:38.039 strong feelings about it. Right. But the Reed 00:11:38.039 --> 00:11:41.360 Multiplex does not describe UBI as some permanent, 00:11:41.460 --> 00:11:44.720 magical, utopian endpoint. It is specifically 00:11:44.720 --> 00:11:47.460 called a temporary cast. Let's walk through the 00:11:47.460 --> 00:11:49.399 exact numbers proposed by Brian because they 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:51.919 are highly specific. The baseline outlined is 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:55.210 $3 ,000 per month per adult. And it's important 00:11:55.210 --> 00:11:57.210 to note that number isn't just pulled out of 00:11:57.210 --> 00:11:59.610 thin air. It is empirically anchored to the median, 00:11:59.809 --> 00:12:02.690 no frills cost of living in America today. It 00:12:02.690 --> 00:12:04.929 is strictly meant to cover basic shelter, basic 00:12:04.929 --> 00:12:08.690 food and basic utilities. Just survival. But 00:12:08.690 --> 00:12:10.809 the immediate pushback from anyone looking at 00:12:10.809 --> 00:12:13.750 the map is the sheer cost of this. For 50 to 00:12:13.750 --> 00:12:16.309 80 million displaced workers, plus the rest of 00:12:16.309 --> 00:12:18.669 the adult population, you're looking at a net 00:12:18.669 --> 00:12:22.289 cost of about $1 .8 to $2 .9 trillion annually. 00:12:22.990 --> 00:12:24.769 Which sounds like an economy breaking number. 00:12:24.950 --> 00:12:27.570 It does. It sounds impossible. Yeah. But Brian's 00:12:27.570 --> 00:12:29.730 analysis points out that we currently waste between 00:12:29.730 --> 00:12:33.649 400 to 600 billion dollars in overlapping, highly 00:12:33.649 --> 00:12:36.169 inefficient welfare bureaucracies. Right. The 00:12:36.169 --> 00:12:39.230 administrative bloat is massive. Exactly. So 00:12:39.230 --> 00:12:41.230 you eliminate the means testing, you eliminate 00:12:41.230 --> 00:12:43.750 the massive administrative overhead, and you 00:12:43.750 --> 00:12:46.029 just distribute the capital directly. Furthermore, 00:12:46.149 --> 00:12:47.970 we really have to look at recent history here 00:12:47.970 --> 00:12:50.250 to see what governments are capable of. During 00:12:50.250 --> 00:12:52.330 the COVID pandemic, the American government spent 00:12:52.330 --> 00:12:56.210 roughly $5 trillion in 18 months just to stabilize 00:12:56.210 --> 00:12:59.409 a frozen economy. Oh, wow. Yeah, that puts it 00:12:59.409 --> 00:13:01.529 in perspective. The fiat capacity to deploy this 00:13:01.529 --> 00:13:03.990 kind of capital absolutely exists when the system 00:13:03.990 --> 00:13:06.230 is under existential threat. And the abundance 00:13:06.230 --> 00:13:08.470 in trignum is a far greater existential threat 00:13:08.470 --> 00:13:10.809 to the status quo than the pandemic ever was. 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:13.860 What's fascinating here is how Brian impartially 00:13:13.860 --> 00:13:16.980 reports on the failing systems of the past. And 00:13:16.980 --> 00:13:19.240 I want to explicitly remind you, the listener, 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:21.899 that we are neutrally reporting Brian's views 00:13:21.899 --> 00:13:24.539 here. We are absolutely not taking political 00:13:24.539 --> 00:13:27.740 sides or endorsing any specific ideology. We 00:13:27.740 --> 00:13:29.840 are just looking at the mechanics of these systems 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:32.659 as outlined in the Reed Multiplex. Yes, it's 00:13:32.659 --> 00:13:35.320 a structural analysis, not a political one. Exactly. 00:13:35.320 --> 00:13:38.279 And the observation made is that crony capitalism, 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:42.100 corrupt socialism, communism, and fascism systems 00:13:42.100 --> 00:13:44.740 that literally fought bloody wars against each 00:13:44.740 --> 00:13:47.039 other over their ideological differences, they 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:49.960 all shared one fatal foundational premise. Yes. 00:13:50.019 --> 00:13:52.399 Despite their totally different window dressing, 00:13:52.620 --> 00:13:55.279 they were all built on the exact same bedrock. 00:13:56.090 --> 00:13:58.370 Can you explain the mechanics of that? How does 00:13:58.370 --> 00:14:01.309 scarcity define a political system? Well, scarcity 00:14:01.309 --> 00:14:03.549 simply means there is not enough to go around. 00:14:03.690 --> 00:14:06.750 You have finite land, finite energy, finite raw 00:14:06.750 --> 00:14:09.870 materials, and finite skilled human labor. And 00:14:09.870 --> 00:14:11.470 because those things are scarce, they require 00:14:11.470 --> 00:14:13.470 strict management. Right. Someone has to decide 00:14:13.470 --> 00:14:15.840 who gets what. Exactly. The leaders of those 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:18.519 systems, whether they call themselves CEOs, commissars, 00:14:18.580 --> 00:14:21.639 dictators or prime ministers, they maintain their 00:14:21.639 --> 00:14:24.340 power by controlling the choke points of those 00:14:24.340 --> 00:14:27.360 finite resources. They decided who got the energy, 00:14:27.559 --> 00:14:29.799 who got to farm the land, who got the high paying 00:14:29.799 --> 00:14:32.500 jobs. So if you control the bottleneck, you control 00:14:32.500 --> 00:14:35.659 the entire society. That's it. Your power is 00:14:35.659 --> 00:14:38.299 entirely derived from rationing what people desperately 00:14:38.299 --> 00:14:41.980 need but cannot easily get. So UBI in this context 00:14:41.980 --> 00:14:44.419 is effectively the government's panicked attempt 00:14:44.419 --> 00:14:46.799 to manage the sudden collapse of that scarcity 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:49.500 model. It is an attempt to use fiat currency, 00:14:49.700 --> 00:14:52.419 which is a tool of the old scarcity world, to 00:14:52.419 --> 00:14:55.100 buy time while the new abundant world boots up. 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:57.690 Precisely. And because of this, it triggers what 00:14:57.690 --> 00:15:01.169 Brian calls the last gasp of the old order. It 00:15:01.169 --> 00:15:03.230 is not going to be a smooth, polite transition 00:15:03.230 --> 00:15:05.129 where the politicians just hand out checks and 00:15:05.129 --> 00:15:06.950 everyone goes home happy. No, it is going to 00:15:06.950 --> 00:15:09.789 be incredibly messy. Let's vividly describe this 00:15:09.789 --> 00:15:13.429 hyperreaction. You have an entire global power 00:15:13.429 --> 00:15:16.009 structure built on these choke points, and suddenly 00:15:16.009 --> 00:15:19.200 those choke points are dissolving. The legacy 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:22.539 union leaders, the career politicians, the clueless 00:15:22.539 --> 00:15:25.600 money class who built vast fortunes simply by 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:27.940 sitting on top of these artificial bottlenecks, 00:15:27.980 --> 00:15:30.080 they're going to totally panic. Oh, absolute 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:33.039 panic. We will see an intense period of reactionary 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:36.059 social unrest. Brian's outline predicts the rise 00:15:36.059 --> 00:15:38.460 of what we can call Neoludites. Like the 19th 00:15:38.460 --> 00:15:40.539 century textile workers in England who smashed 00:15:40.539 --> 00:15:42.639 the mechanized looms because they were terrified 00:15:42.639 --> 00:15:44.879 of losing their weaving jobs. Precisely like 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:46.940 them. But this time, it won't just be weavers 00:15:46.940 --> 00:15:49.200 in the mill. It will be truck drivers, accountants, 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:51.220 and coders. We will see marches in the streets. 00:15:51.299 --> 00:15:53.360 We will see people physically attacking autonomy 00:15:53.360 --> 00:15:56.120 delivery vehicles or smashing humanoid robots. 00:15:56.399 --> 00:15:58.840 Wow. There will be massive organized demands 00:15:58.840 --> 00:16:01.399 for a return to the 40 -hour factory floor work 00:16:01.399 --> 00:16:03.980 week, even if the work itself is completely redundant 00:16:03.980 --> 00:16:07.330 and produces literally zero real value. It's 00:16:07.330 --> 00:16:09.789 just a hyper reaction. It's the psychological 00:16:09.789 --> 00:16:12.230 desperation of people demanding the world go 00:16:12.230 --> 00:16:14.370 back to the way it was simply because they don't 00:16:14.370 --> 00:16:17.029 know how to exist in the new paradigm. And politicians 00:16:17.029 --> 00:16:19.110 will do what politicians always do, right? They 00:16:19.110 --> 00:16:21.450 will pander to the angry crowds. Of course they 00:16:21.450 --> 00:16:25.299 will. They will propose massive. punitive tariffs 00:16:25.299 --> 00:16:29.080 on AI components and processors. They will float 00:16:29.080 --> 00:16:32.620 absurd, unenforceable ideas like robot rights 00:16:32.620 --> 00:16:36.259 or massive windfall taxes on companies that use 00:16:36.259 --> 00:16:39.340 automation, just desperately trying to artificially 00:16:39.340 --> 00:16:41.679 make human labor competitive again. And when 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:44.639 that inevitably fails, they'll just try to print 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:46.889 their way out of it. They will propose like a 00:16:46.889 --> 00:16:48.450 five thousand or seven thousand dollar a month 00:16:48.450 --> 00:16:51.610 UBI completely disconnected from the actual production 00:16:51.610 --> 00:16:54.529 of goods funded entirely by running the printing 00:16:54.529 --> 00:16:57.570 presses hot. Which will fuel massive punishing 00:16:57.570 --> 00:17:00.370 inflation. It is the chaotic flailing of political 00:17:00.370 --> 00:17:02.710 dinosaurs trying to regulate a future they fundamentally 00:17:02.710 --> 00:17:05.170 do not understand. It's basically like applying 00:17:05.170 --> 00:17:07.410 luchas to a patient when they actually need like 00:17:07.410 --> 00:17:10.930 gene therapy. OK, so this paints a pretty turbulent 00:17:10.930 --> 00:17:13.890 picture for the interregnum. If the old order 00:17:13.890 --> 00:17:16.539 is flailing. And politicians are printing money 00:17:16.539 --> 00:17:18.740 and causing inflation to save a dying scarcity 00:17:18.740 --> 00:17:21.140 model. And people are protesting in the streets. 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:24.819 What is the underlying math that makes all of 00:17:24.819 --> 00:17:28.240 their panic ultimately irrelevant? That is the 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:31.000 big question. Right. Because Brian insists this 00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:33.660 is just a passing storm. So what forces the storm 00:17:33.660 --> 00:17:36.039 to break? The storm breaks and the political 00:17:36.039 --> 00:17:38.720 flailing becomes totally irrelevant because of 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:41.519 two undeniable demarcations of true abundance. 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:44.529 OK. Section three. The two demarcations. Yes. 00:17:44.630 --> 00:17:46.890 These are two technological tipping points that 00:17:46.890 --> 00:17:49.089 are rooted in hard physics and exponential math. 00:17:49.329 --> 00:17:52.190 Once we cross them, they completely rewrite the 00:17:52.190 --> 00:17:54.369 rules of human existence, regardless of what 00:17:54.369 --> 00:17:56.589 any politician signs into law. All right. Here's 00:17:56.589 --> 00:17:58.309 where it gets really interesting. Let's dive 00:17:58.309 --> 00:18:00.130 into the mechanics of this because this is the 00:18:00.130 --> 00:18:02.849 core of the 5 ,000 days. Let's look at demarcation 00:18:02.849 --> 00:18:06.869 one. Robots making robots. Also known as garage 00:18:06.869 --> 00:18:10.460 alchemy. Garage alchemy. I love that term. We 00:18:10.460 --> 00:18:12.720 really need to break down the exact math provided 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:16.279 in part 22 because it is staggering. Today, as 00:18:16.279 --> 00:18:19.500 we sit here, a good enough humanoid robot, one 00:18:19.500 --> 00:18:22.480 capable of bipedal movement, basic dexterity 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:25.440 and object recognition costs roughly $20 ,000 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:28.579 to $30 ,000. Which, to put in perspective, is 00:18:28.579 --> 00:18:30.839 already just the price of a modest used car. 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:32.819 It is not some multi -million dollar defense 00:18:32.819 --> 00:18:35.440 project anymore. It is consumer level pricing. 00:18:35.660 --> 00:18:38.420 Right. But the true paradigm shift, the actual 00:18:38.420 --> 00:18:41.599 demarcation point, happens when that $20 ,000 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:43.980 robot gains the physical and cognitive ability 00:18:43.980 --> 00:18:47.720 driven by localized open source AI to build a 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:50.299 perfect physical copy of itself. But wait, how 00:18:50.299 --> 00:18:52.460 does a robot actually do that in a standard suburban 00:18:52.460 --> 00:18:54.700 garage? I think this is where people get hung 00:18:54.700 --> 00:18:56.039 up and think it sounds like science fiction. 00:18:56.119 --> 00:18:57.539 Like, where do the microchips come from? How 00:18:57.539 --> 00:19:00.039 does it forge the metal? We really need to explain 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:02.230 the how here. That is the crucial question. It 00:19:02.230 --> 00:19:04.730 doesn't require a massive backyard silicon foundry. 00:19:04.829 --> 00:19:07.150 The mechanism relies on modularity and shifts 00:19:07.150 --> 00:19:09.529 in the global supply chain. The robot isn't mining 00:19:09.529 --> 00:19:12.089 raw silicon and etching microscopic transistors. 00:19:12.250 --> 00:19:14.160 Okay, so what is it doing? It is using roughly 00:19:14.160 --> 00:19:18.259 $8 ,000 in raw materials and standardized commoditized 00:19:18.259 --> 00:19:20.799 components, what this series calls feedstock. 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:24.799 This means bulk modular motors, spools of advanced 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:27.960 3D printing polymers, recycled aluminum, and 00:19:27.960 --> 00:19:30.819 cheap off -the -shelf processing units. Got it. 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:33.960 The AI provides the schematics and the precision. 00:19:34.569 --> 00:19:38.029 The robot operates advanced 3D printers and CNC 00:19:38.029 --> 00:19:40.410 machines to fabricate the chassis and gears, 00:19:40.650 --> 00:19:43.509 and then meticulously assembles those purchased, 00:19:43.650 --> 00:19:46.170 commoditized micro -components. Ah, I see. So 00:19:46.170 --> 00:19:48.710 it's much more like highly advanced, automated 00:19:48.710 --> 00:19:52.190 IKEA assembly combined with localized 3D printing 00:19:52.190 --> 00:19:54.329 rather than trying to build a semiconductor from 00:19:54.329 --> 00:19:56.890 scratch? Exactly. And because the AI models driving 00:19:56.890 --> 00:19:59.390 this are open source, you aren't paying massive 00:19:59.390 --> 00:20:01.650 licensing fees to a tech giant. You are just 00:20:01.650 --> 00:20:03.849 paying the absolute floor price for the raw physical. 00:20:04.220 --> 00:20:05.700 Okay, so let's walk through this exponential 00:20:05.700 --> 00:20:08.160 math because this is mind -blowing. Let's assume 00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:10.859 a highly conservative 30 -day replication cycle. 00:20:11.059 --> 00:20:13.779 You purchase one robot, it uses that $8 ,000 00:20:13.779 --> 00:20:16.559 in feedstock, and it uses energy, it generates 00:20:16.559 --> 00:20:18.480 itself via solar panels, which we will get to 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:21.440 in a moment. Working 24 hours a day, never sleeping, 00:20:21.539 --> 00:20:23.640 never taking a coffee break, it takes 30 days 00:20:23.640 --> 00:20:26.339 to print, mill, and assemble a perfect duplicate. 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:28.640 Okay, so at the end of month one, you have two 00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:31.619 robots. Right. Month two, those two robots work 00:20:31.619 --> 00:20:34.099 in tandem. Now you have four. By month six, you 00:20:34.099 --> 00:20:37.559 have 64. And by month 12. By month 12. 12, working 00:20:37.559 --> 00:20:40.240 at this conservative 30 -day pace, you have 4 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:43.440 ,096 robots. That's from one single unit in a 00:20:43.440 --> 00:20:46.160 year. That is absurd. Yes. And by year three, 00:20:46.220 --> 00:20:49.299 if a community coordinates this open source replication 00:20:49.299 --> 00:20:52.579 and pools their feedstock resources, you are 00:20:52.579 --> 00:20:55.900 looking at over 134 million units. That number 00:20:55.900 --> 00:20:58.359 is almost too big to comprehend. 134 million 00:20:58.359 --> 00:21:01.019 from one garage origin in three years. But it 00:21:01.019 --> 00:21:03.660 is just basic compounding math. And the profound 00:21:03.660 --> 00:21:06.920 implication of demarcation one is... This. The 00:21:06.920 --> 00:21:09.500 means of production entirely decentralized. For 00:21:09.500 --> 00:21:11.380 the last 200 years, if you wanted to produce 00:21:11.380 --> 00:21:13.779 physical goods at scale, you needed a billion 00:21:13.779 --> 00:21:15.660 -dollar factory. Right. You needed vast amounts 00:21:15.660 --> 00:21:17.640 of capital, which meant you needed banks, which 00:21:17.640 --> 00:21:19.380 meant the financial class controlled the physical 00:21:19.380 --> 00:21:22.779 world. Exactly. But if your labor force can replicate 00:21:22.779 --> 00:21:26.019 itself in your garage, you no longer need the 00:21:26.019 --> 00:21:28.759 gigafactory. Capital ownership, which was the 00:21:28.759 --> 00:21:31.019 defining dividing line of the entire industrial 00:21:31.019 --> 00:21:34.539 age, suddenly democratizes. Everyone, down to 00:21:34.539 --> 00:21:36.880 the individual family, can own the labor force. 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:39.259 But there is a massive catch here that we have 00:21:39.259 --> 00:21:42.359 to address, a massive flaw in the logic, if we 00:21:42.359 --> 00:21:43.960 don't look at the second half of the equation. 00:21:44.119 --> 00:21:48.059 The energy problem. Yes. If you have 4 ,000 robots 00:21:48.059 --> 00:21:51.140 in your neighborhood working 247 milling aluminum 00:21:51.140 --> 00:21:54.460 and 3D printing polymers, the energy draw would 00:21:54.460 --> 00:21:56.700 be astronomical. It would instantly melt. the 00:21:56.700 --> 00:21:58.900 local power grid. You couldn't afford the electric 00:21:58.900 --> 00:22:00.960 bill, let alone keep the lights on. Which is 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:03.720 precisely why demarcation one absolutely cannot 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:06.420 exist without demarcation two. Near zero energy. 00:22:06.910 --> 00:22:08.869 Okay, layer in the energy equation because Brian 00:22:08.869 --> 00:22:11.009 layers this in beautifully in the Reed Multiplex. 00:22:11.150 --> 00:22:13.569 We are currently seeing a total collapse in the 00:22:13.569 --> 00:22:16.849 cost of capturing solar energy. We use a metric 00:22:16.849 --> 00:22:19.869 called LCOE, levelized cost of energy. It basically 00:22:19.869 --> 00:22:22.329 measures the average net present cost of electricity 00:22:22.329 --> 00:22:25.170 generation for a generating plant over its lifetime. 00:22:25.450 --> 00:22:28.009 It's how we compare the long -term cost of coal 00:22:28.009 --> 00:22:31.519 versus wind versus solar. Exactly. And the LCOE 00:22:31.519 --> 00:22:33.640 for solar is already falling to two to three 00:22:33.640 --> 00:22:35.579 cents per kilowatt hour in many parts of the 00:22:35.579 --> 00:22:38.559 world. But the true game changer highlighted 00:22:38.559 --> 00:22:42.119 in the research is the commercialization of perovskite 00:22:42.119 --> 00:22:46.140 solar efficiencies. What exactly is perovskite? 00:22:46.220 --> 00:22:48.339 I hear that buzzword thrown around in tech circles, 00:22:48.420 --> 00:22:50.400 but how is it different from the bulky solar 00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:53.359 panels currently on my neighbor's roof? So traditional 00:22:53.359 --> 00:22:55.680 solar panels are made of crystalline silicon. 00:22:56.299 --> 00:22:59.960 They are rigid. They are incredibly energy intensive 00:22:59.960 --> 00:23:02.680 to manufacture, requiring massive furnaces to 00:23:02.680 --> 00:23:05.359 melt the silicon. And they have a hard physical 00:23:05.359 --> 00:23:07.920 limit on how much sunlight they can convert into 00:23:07.920 --> 00:23:11.119 electricity. Perovskite refers to a specific 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:13.779 crystal structure that is incredibly highly efficient 00:23:13.779 --> 00:23:16.460 at absorbing light. But the real magic is in 00:23:16.460 --> 00:23:18.880 the manufacturing. Perovskite materials can be 00:23:18.880 --> 00:23:20.680 synthesized at low temperatures and can literally 00:23:20.680 --> 00:23:23.279 be printed like ink onto flexible, lightweight 00:23:23.279 --> 00:23:26.599 rolls of plastic or glass. Wow. So vastly cheaper 00:23:26.599 --> 00:23:29.180 to make, way easier to install, and more efficient. 00:23:29.480 --> 00:23:32.359 Exactly. With perovskite pushing energy conversion 00:23:32.359 --> 00:23:35.779 efficiencies past 30%, the cost of a kilowatt 00:23:35.779 --> 00:23:38.400 hour is plunging toward half a cent, which means 00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:40.819 the marginal cost of a kilowatt hour on your 00:23:40.819 --> 00:23:43.400 own roof or on the roof of your garage where 00:23:43.400 --> 00:23:46.960 your robots are working approaches zero. So we 00:23:46.960 --> 00:23:48.660 aren't just talking about your electric bill 00:23:48.660 --> 00:23:52.019 going down by 50 bucks a month. We are talking 00:23:52.019 --> 00:23:55.259 about energy so fundamentally plentiful that 00:23:55.259 --> 00:23:58.400 charging for it becomes as absurd as charging 00:23:58.400 --> 00:24:00.900 someone for breathing the ambient air. And when 00:24:00.900 --> 00:24:03.619 energy is effectively free, the cost of everything 00:24:03.619 --> 00:24:06.579 else plummets because energy is the base layer 00:24:06.579 --> 00:24:09.680 of all physical production. This leads to a massive 00:24:09.680 --> 00:24:13.059 geographic and societal shift. Brian talks about 00:24:13.059 --> 00:24:16.140 the death of the city's gravity. Explain the 00:24:16.140 --> 00:24:19.019 macroeconomic why of this. Why do cities even 00:24:19.019 --> 00:24:21.140 exist in the first place? If we look at history, 00:24:21.359 --> 00:24:23.819 cities only existed because of friction. For 00:24:23.819 --> 00:24:26.279 the last 5 ,000 years, labor, energy, and expertise 00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:29.140 had to physically converge in scarce geographic 00:24:29.140 --> 00:24:31.400 nodes to be productive. You had to go to the 00:24:31.400 --> 00:24:33.119 city because that's where the deepwater port 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:35.460 was. Right. That's where the factory was. That's 00:24:35.460 --> 00:24:37.180 where the centralized power grid was. That's 00:24:37.180 --> 00:24:39.259 where the specialized human experts lived. It 00:24:39.259 --> 00:24:42.099 was a centralization of necessity. Yes. Proximity 00:24:42.099 --> 00:24:44.460 was a premium you had to pay for. You tolerated 00:24:44.460 --> 00:24:47.079 the high rent, the traffic, the pollution because 00:24:47.079 --> 00:24:49.420 you simply had to be near the node of production. 00:24:49.660 --> 00:24:52.119 But when you combine demarcation one and demarcation 00:24:52.119 --> 00:24:54.839 two. The necessity of the node vanishes entirely. 00:24:55.099 --> 00:24:58.460 Think about it. When 97 percent of America's 00:24:58.460 --> 00:25:01.700 undeveloped cheap land can suddenly host self 00:25:01.700 --> 00:25:04.559 -replicating robotic labor and those robots are 00:25:04.559 --> 00:25:07.859 powered by free localized solar arrays and the 00:25:07.859 --> 00:25:10.240 entire operation is connected to the collective 00:25:10.240 --> 00:25:15.720 intelligence of humanity via low earth. The economic 00:25:15.720 --> 00:25:18.460 gravity of the downtown core just dissolves. 00:25:18.460 --> 00:25:20.200 It evaporates. You don't need to live stacked 00:25:20.200 --> 00:25:22.700 on top of each other in expensive, high -density 00:25:22.700 --> 00:25:25.079 urban centers anymore. You can buy a cheap plot 00:25:25.079 --> 00:25:27.119 of land in the middle of nowhere, drop down a 00:25:27.119 --> 00:25:30.099 solar array, boot up your first robot, and begin 00:25:30.099 --> 00:25:32.650 generating physical wealth. The geographic premium 00:25:32.650 --> 00:25:35.549 is completely destroyed. Real estate values in 00:25:35.549 --> 00:25:38.410 dense urban centers will face a massive reckoning, 00:25:38.529 --> 00:25:41.349 while the value of open sunlit space will rise. 00:25:41.609 --> 00:25:44.509 It is an incredible vision. Having this exponential 00:25:44.509 --> 00:25:47.829 free energy robotic labor force in your garage 00:25:47.829 --> 00:25:50.809 sounds like absolute magic. But I have to ask, 00:25:50.869 --> 00:25:53.049 for the listener who is engaging with this right 00:25:53.049 --> 00:25:55.609 now, how do you actually survive the turbulent 00:25:55.609 --> 00:25:58.289 5 ,000 days? That's the practical side of this. 00:25:58.549 --> 00:26:00.589 Right. It's great to talk about the 2030s when 00:26:00.589 --> 00:26:03.079 we all had... 16 robots. But what about next 00:26:03.079 --> 00:26:05.779 year? While the Neoludites are rioting and the 00:26:05.779 --> 00:26:07.799 politicians are printing money and inflation 00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:11.259 is spiking, what is the practical day -to -day 00:26:11.259 --> 00:26:14.279 survival guide? This is where Brian's work transitions 00:26:14.279 --> 00:26:17.220 from macroeconomic theory to a highly actionable 00:26:17.220 --> 00:26:21.039 personal action plan. Section 4. The Hero's Action 00:26:21.039 --> 00:26:23.259 Plan. And the core philosophy for the listener 00:26:23.259 --> 00:26:25.740 is very clear. Do not wait for the government's 00:26:25.740 --> 00:26:28.220 UBI bridge to fully form. Don't rely on the failing 00:26:28.220 --> 00:26:30.700 state to catch you. Exactly. Those who know first 00:26:30.700 --> 00:26:33.759 must act first. You have to become the active 00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:36.339 hero of your own story. You can't just be a passenger. 00:26:36.740 --> 00:26:39.700 And the Reed Multiplex introduces this concept 00:26:39.700 --> 00:26:43.000 of the zero human company. Break this down for 00:26:43.000 --> 00:26:44.660 us because this is something listeners can genuinely 00:26:44.660 --> 00:26:47.180 start exploring today. What makes it different 00:26:47.180 --> 00:26:49.640 from just a normal online business? A zero -human 00:26:49.640 --> 00:26:52.539 company is a fully autonomous digital enterprise. 00:26:52.940 --> 00:26:56.519 It requires zero human employees to operate at 00:26:56.519 --> 00:26:59.720 scale. In the old model, if your e -commerce 00:26:59.720 --> 00:27:02.880 business grew, you had to hire a customer service 00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:05.519 rep, a marketing manager, a supply chain coordinator. 00:27:05.839 --> 00:27:07.619 Right, your overhead grew with your revenue. 00:27:07.799 --> 00:27:09.940 Today, you can launch a zero -human company from 00:27:09.940 --> 00:27:12.059 your laptop in a matter of days. But how does 00:27:12.059 --> 00:27:13.900 that actually work mechanically? Yeah. Without 00:27:13.900 --> 00:27:17.490 a human. who handles an angry customer, who negotiates 00:27:17.490 --> 00:27:19.529 with a supplier. You deploy an interconnected 00:27:19.529 --> 00:27:23.170 stack of specialized AI agents via API integrations. 00:27:23.309 --> 00:27:25.910 You have a language model fine -tuned entirely 00:27:25.910 --> 00:27:28.730 on your product manual and return policy handling 00:27:28.730 --> 00:27:31.829 every single customer service email in seconds. 00:27:32.490 --> 00:27:35.210 You have an analytical agent monitoring global 00:27:35.210 --> 00:27:38.369 trends and dynamically generating ad copy and 00:27:38.369 --> 00:27:41.069 buying media space. You have a logistics agent 00:27:41.069 --> 00:27:44.529 communicating directly via API with a drop shipping 00:27:44.529 --> 00:27:46.809 warehouse to fulfill physical orders. So the 00:27:46.809 --> 00:27:50.019 human is purely the visionary. You are the architect. 00:27:50.140 --> 00:27:52.200 You set the strategy, you define the parameters, 00:27:52.319 --> 00:27:54.500 and the machine executes the labor. Exactly. 00:27:54.619 --> 00:27:56.900 And this creates immediate high -margin cash 00:27:56.900 --> 00:27:59.759 flow and personal independence during the most 00:27:59.759 --> 00:28:02.759 chaotic years of the interregnum. You don't have 00:28:02.759 --> 00:28:05.259 payroll overhead. You don't need permission from 00:28:05.259 --> 00:28:07.359 regulators or HR departments. You just build 00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:09.900 and scale your digital footprint. And then the 00:28:09.900 --> 00:28:11.819 roadmap connects this digital concept to the 00:28:11.819 --> 00:28:14.380 physical world with what Brian calls the dynamic 00:28:14.380 --> 00:28:17.160 duo. This is honestly my favorite part of the 00:28:17.160 --> 00:28:19.660 entire Part 22 piece. It paints such a vivid 00:28:19.660 --> 00:28:22.420 picture. It really does. It outlines a symbiotic 00:28:22.420 --> 00:28:25.799 partnership between a human, a Tesla Optimus 00:28:25.799 --> 00:28:28.619 -style humanoid robot, and a cybercab autonomous 00:28:28.619 --> 00:28:31.380 vehicle. It is the ultimate sovereign producer 00:28:31.380 --> 00:28:34.220 unit. Let's walk through a day in the life of 00:28:34.220 --> 00:28:36.960 this dynamic duo. It really is like wielding 00:28:36.960 --> 00:28:40.140 a personal superpower. Think about the logistics. 00:28:40.420 --> 00:28:42.980 The cybercab acts as your localized logistics 00:28:42.980 --> 00:28:46.200 and revenue engine. When you are asleep, it can 00:28:46.200 --> 00:28:48.839 run as an autonomous rideshare or delivery service. 00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:51.099 Right. And the marginal cost of running an electric 00:28:51.099 --> 00:28:54.480 autonomous vehicle is incredibly low, maybe 20 00:28:54.480 --> 00:28:56.819 to 40 cents a mile. It generates passive revenue 00:28:56.819 --> 00:29:00.500 simply by moving people or goods around the dissolving 00:29:00.500 --> 00:29:02.660 city. Exactly. And then you have the Optimus 00:29:02.660 --> 00:29:05.460 robot. which provides the dexterous physical 00:29:05.460 --> 00:29:08.220 labor. It can load the cyber cab with goods your 00:29:08.220 --> 00:29:11.180 zero human company produced. It can perform localized 00:29:11.180 --> 00:29:13.700 maintenance like mowing lawns, repairing solar 00:29:13.700 --> 00:29:15.779 panels, or doing basic construction tasks for 00:29:15.779 --> 00:29:17.779 your neighbors. Together, they form an unstoppable, 00:29:18.140 --> 00:29:20.180 self -sustaining business unit that operates 00:29:20.180 --> 00:29:23.460 24 hours a day. It requires absolutely no bank 00:29:23.460 --> 00:29:26.099 loan, no venture capital, no board of directors, 00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:28.740 and absolutely no permission from any legacy 00:29:28.740 --> 00:29:31.019 gatekeeper. You have secured your own sovereignty. 00:29:31.529 --> 00:29:33.690 And this ties directly back to the classic hero's 00:29:33.690 --> 00:29:35.269 journey that Brian references in the series. 00:29:35.589 --> 00:29:37.769 You don't just secure your own wealth and then 00:29:37.769 --> 00:29:40.049 lock your doors. You go out into the chaos of 00:29:40.049 --> 00:29:42.470 the interregnum. You secure your own independence 00:29:42.470 --> 00:29:44.970 through the Zero Human Company and the Dynamic 00:29:44.970 --> 00:29:48.579 Duo. And then you... Bring this boon back to 00:29:48.579 --> 00:29:50.619 your community. Which is the true moral imperative 00:29:50.619 --> 00:29:52.940 of this transition. You teach others. You don't 00:29:52.940 --> 00:29:55.279 hoard the knowledge. When you see your neighbor 00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:57.180 struggling because their accounting firm just 00:29:57.180 --> 00:29:59.319 laid them off, you show them how to form their 00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:02.680 own dynamic duo. You help them use your robot 00:30:02.680 --> 00:30:05.440 to replicate their first robot. You build localized 00:30:05.440 --> 00:30:07.720 abundance from the ground up, neighbor by neighbor, 00:30:07.859 --> 00:30:10.859 completely bypassing the flailing centralized 00:30:10.859 --> 00:30:13.660 systems and the politicians arguing on television. 00:30:13.920 --> 00:30:16.619 It is a beautifully proactive path. It shifts 00:30:16.619 --> 00:30:18.900 the individual from a state of victimhood to 00:30:18.900 --> 00:30:21.279 a state of profound agency. So let's play this 00:30:21.279 --> 00:30:24.380 out to its logical conclusion. As more and more 00:30:24.380 --> 00:30:26.740 individuals adopt this sovereign producer model, 00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:29.339 as entire neighborhoods get their own replicating 00:30:29.339 --> 00:30:32.259 robots and free solar energy, the very concept 00:30:32.259 --> 00:30:35.460 of money, pricing, and value begins to warp fundamentally. 00:30:36.119 --> 00:30:38.259 So what does this all mean for the future of 00:30:38.259 --> 00:30:40.319 the economy? Where does this bridge actually 00:30:40.319 --> 00:30:43.039 lead us once the 5 ,000 days are up? It leads 00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:45.940 the most profound economic shift in human history. 00:30:46.180 --> 00:30:49.200 Section five, the evolution from universal basic 00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:53.380 income to universal high income or UHI. And the 00:30:53.380 --> 00:30:55.599 mathematical mechanism that drives this evolution 00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:58.759 is a deflationary super cycle. OK, let's break 00:30:58.759 --> 00:31:01.059 down the math on this because it is deeply counterintuitive 00:31:01.059 --> 00:31:03.519 to how we are taught to think. We are so used 00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:05.819 to inflation. We're used to the idea that next 00:31:05.819 --> 00:31:08.079 year a loaf of bread will always cost a little 00:31:08.079 --> 00:31:10.539 bit more than it does today. But the Reed Multiplex 00:31:10.539 --> 00:31:13.039 says the exact opposite will happen. To understand 00:31:13.039 --> 00:31:15.019 this, imagine you are receiving that temporary 00:31:15.019 --> 00:31:17.880 government UBI check of $3 ,000 a month, which 00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:21.640 is $36 ,000 a year. In a normal scarcity -based 00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:24.799 economy, inflation eats away at that check. Five 00:31:24.799 --> 00:31:27.640 years from now, that $3 ,000 barely covers rent. 00:31:27.880 --> 00:31:30.980 But in the abundance in oregano, massive robotic 00:31:30.980 --> 00:31:33.400 efficiencies are driving the cost of producing 00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:36.309 everything down. Robots do not demand annual 00:31:36.309 --> 00:31:38.609 raises, they do not require health care, and 00:31:38.609 --> 00:31:41.329 they are powered by free solar energy. Brian 00:31:41.329 --> 00:31:44.329 models an 8 % to 12 % annual compounding deflation 00:31:44.329 --> 00:31:47.170 across all physical goods and services. Meaning 00:31:47.170 --> 00:31:49.549 the cost to build a house, grow a tomato, or 00:31:49.549 --> 00:31:52.289 manufacture a shirt is getting 8 % to 12 % cheaper 00:31:52.289 --> 00:31:55.390 every single year. Exactly. So by 2032, because 00:31:55.390 --> 00:31:57.450 the things you need to buy have gotten so incredibly 00:31:57.450 --> 00:32:01.650 cheap to produce, that exact same $36 ,000 check 00:32:01.650 --> 00:32:05.150 suddenly has the purchasing power of $57 ,500 00:32:05.150 --> 00:32:07.890 in today's money. The number on the check didn't 00:32:07.890 --> 00:32:09.670 change, but your wealth practically doubled. 00:32:10.380 --> 00:32:12.700 factor in that your personal energy cost is essentially 00:32:12.700 --> 00:32:15.539 zero because of your solar array, your effective 00:32:15.539 --> 00:32:18.880 purchasing power feels like $72 ,000 to $85 ,000 00:32:18.880 --> 00:32:21.680 a year. The world got radically structurally 00:32:21.680 --> 00:32:24.579 cheaper. And it gets even wilder when you factor 00:32:24.579 --> 00:32:27.480 in your personal GDP. Let's look at this staggering 00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:29.799 projection Brian lays out for the year 2033. 00:32:30.259 --> 00:32:32.720 Imagine your household fleet starting from that 00:32:32.720 --> 00:32:35.380 one robot in your garage, has replicated to a 00:32:35.380 --> 00:32:38.819 modest fleet of 16 robots. Just 16. Right. Those 00:32:38.819 --> 00:32:41.380 16 units are working collaboratively, doing roughly 00:32:41.380 --> 00:32:44.160 2 ,000 hours of expert -level labor a month. 00:32:44.259 --> 00:32:46.099 They are building additions to your home. They 00:32:46.099 --> 00:32:48.160 are farming your land. They are repairing local 00:32:48.160 --> 00:32:51.019 infrastructure. Brian calculates that this generates 00:32:51.019 --> 00:32:54.799 a personal GDP for your family of $180 ,000 to 00:32:54.799 --> 00:32:58.240 $240 ,000 equivalent value. Because the baseline 00:32:58.240 --> 00:33:01.440 costs of human survival are cratering. Let's 00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:03.480 look at the specific price drops outlined in 00:33:03.480 --> 00:33:05.599 the research, because they are hard to fathom 00:33:05.599 --> 00:33:07.759 until you realize that labor and energy, the 00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:10.359 two biggest inputs in any product, have been 00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:12.420 completely removed from the equation. Give us 00:33:12.420 --> 00:33:15.039 some examples. Let's take housing. A modular 00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:17.420 robotic house built not with expensive imported 00:33:17.420 --> 00:33:20.440 lumber, but with recycled hyperlocal feedstock 00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:23.039 3D printed by your robotic fleet, plummets from 00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:26.599 a traditional $350 ,000 build cost to under $45 00:33:26.599 --> 00:33:30.839 ,000. Under $45 ,000 for a house. And food. Vertical 00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:32.960 robotic farming is another massive deflationary 00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:35.180 force mentioned. Explain how this works because 00:33:35.180 --> 00:33:37.359 it entirely disrupts agriculture. Traditional 00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:40.299 agriculture requires vast tracts of land, massive 00:33:40.299 --> 00:33:42.940 amounts of diesel fuel for tractors, and complex 00:33:42.940 --> 00:33:45.380 supply chains to move the food before it spoils. 00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:49.140 A localized vertical robotic farm uses AI to 00:33:49.140 --> 00:33:51.440 optimize the exact light spectrum and nutrient 00:33:51.440 --> 00:33:53.660 trip for each individual plant. Custom light 00:33:53.660 --> 00:33:56.900 for every leaf. Yes. It yields 30 times the output 00:33:56.900 --> 00:33:59.440 per acre compared to traditional farming, uses 00:33:59.440 --> 00:34:01.799 one -tenth of the water, and requires zero human 00:34:01.799 --> 00:34:05.019 labor or diesel fuel. Food costs, locally produced, 00:34:05.059 --> 00:34:08.360 compress by 75 to 80%. What about services, health 00:34:08.360 --> 00:34:10.400 care and education? They follow the exact same 00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:13.340 curve. Hyper -intelligent AI models, once trained, 00:34:13.480 --> 00:34:16.059 can diagnose illnesses or tutor a child in advanced 00:34:16.059 --> 00:34:19.079 calculus at near zero marginal cost. You have 00:34:19.079 --> 00:34:20.840 the world's greatest doctor and the world's greatest 00:34:20.840 --> 00:34:23.099 teacher in your pocket, effectively for free. 00:34:23.420 --> 00:34:25.800 So we reach this grand conclusion of the 5 ,000 00:34:25.800 --> 00:34:28.860 days somewhere in the mid to late 2030s. That 00:34:28.860 --> 00:34:32.320 original $36 ,000 UBI check effectively becomes 00:34:32.320 --> 00:34:35.960 a universal high income, a UHI of $250 ,000 to 00:34:35.960 --> 00:34:38.840 $400 ,000 or more in purchasing power. You're 00:34:38.840 --> 00:34:40.760 living like the upper class of today, but on 00:34:40.760 --> 00:34:43.960 a fraction of the fiat currency. And then the 00:34:43.960 --> 00:34:47.280 most amazing thing happens. The check itself 00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:50.840 is just ignored. It dissolves into total irrelevance. 00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:53.559 You don't need a government subsidy check when 00:34:53.559 --> 00:34:55.320 you literally own the means of production in 00:34:55.320 --> 00:34:57.659 your own backyard, your robots build and grow 00:34:57.659 --> 00:34:59.980 everything you need, and the sun is powering 00:34:59.980 --> 00:35:03.360 the entire operation for free. Income, as a metric 00:35:03.360 --> 00:35:06.400 of survival, simply ceases to exist. If we connect 00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:09.219 this to the bigger picture, what does human society 00:35:09.219 --> 00:35:11.820 actually look like when nobody has to work for 00:35:11.820 --> 00:35:14.619 money? When the threat of starvation or homelessness 00:35:14.619 --> 00:35:17.139 is permanently removed? The series describes 00:35:17.139 --> 00:35:20.619 it as a return to voluntary guilds. It is framed 00:35:20.619 --> 00:35:23.400 as an objectivist renewal, but stripped of the 00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:25.780 selfish, hyper -competitive caricature we usually 00:35:25.780 --> 00:35:27.960 associate with that philosophy. Let's define 00:35:27.960 --> 00:35:30.179 that for the listener. Objectivism is usually 00:35:30.179 --> 00:35:32.079 associated with rational self -interest, the 00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:33.900 idea that pursuing your own happiness is the 00:35:33.900 --> 00:35:36.400 highest moral purpose. But in a world of scarcity, 00:35:36.719 --> 00:35:38.719 that often meant stepping on others to get ahead. 00:35:39.059 --> 00:35:42.280 Exactly. But in a world of total abundance, your 00:35:42.280 --> 00:35:45.079 rational self -interest no longer requires you 00:35:45.079 --> 00:35:47.699 to hoard resources because resources are infinite. 00:35:47.980 --> 00:35:50.420 When survival is permanently decoupled from labor, 00:35:50.619 --> 00:35:54.420 people reorganize society by choice, not coercion. 00:35:54.570 --> 00:35:56.489 You work with people because you genuinely want 00:35:56.489 --> 00:35:58.469 to, not because you need their money to pay your 00:35:58.469 --> 00:36:00.690 mortgage. Communities will form around shared 00:36:00.690 --> 00:36:03.429 passions and values. You will have guilds of 00:36:03.429 --> 00:36:05.469 artists and craftsmen making beautiful furniture 00:36:05.469 --> 00:36:08.130 by hand, not because a robot couldn't do it, 00:36:08.150 --> 00:36:10.550 but because the human act of creation is joyful. 00:36:10.829 --> 00:36:13.130 You will have scientific guilds exploring physics. 00:36:13.530 --> 00:36:15.929 Deep human connections will flourish because 00:36:15.929 --> 00:36:19.090 every relationship is voluntary. No central planner 00:36:19.090 --> 00:36:22.010 dictates what you must do for society. No boss 00:36:22.010 --> 00:36:24.309 hangs the threat of a mispaid... check over your 00:36:24.309 --> 00:36:26.670 head to force you into a cubicle. You create, 00:36:26.789 --> 00:36:29.349 you trade, and you explore because you are a 00:36:29.349 --> 00:36:31.590 fundamentally free person choosing to celebrate 00:36:31.590 --> 00:36:34.090 life. It sounds incredibly beautiful. It sounds 00:36:34.090 --> 00:36:36.670 like magic. But I want to ground this deeply 00:36:36.670 --> 00:36:39.289 back in human reality because I appreciate that 00:36:39.289 --> 00:36:41.030 Brian doesn't just paint this as a flawless, 00:36:41.230 --> 00:36:44.369 challenge -free utopia. He addresses the psychological 00:36:44.369 --> 00:36:47.260 toll. What actually happens to our minds when 00:36:47.260 --> 00:36:49.639 this struggle to survive is permanently solved. 00:36:49.800 --> 00:36:51.820 This is perhaps the most sobering and important 00:36:51.820 --> 00:36:54.699 part of the entire analysis. Humanity will face 00:36:54.699 --> 00:36:57.920 a massive global meaning crisis. As Brian beautifully 00:36:57.920 --> 00:37:00.719 puts it, Maslow's basement is flooded with light. 00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:03.639 Maslow's hierarchy of needs. The bottom layers 00:37:03.639 --> 00:37:06.840 are physiological. Food, water, warmth, rest. 00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:09.940 And then safety and security. For millennia, 00:37:09.940 --> 00:37:13.380 for 99 .9 % of human history, our entire purpose 00:37:13.380 --> 00:37:15.980 was simply surviving the basement. Feed the family. 00:37:16.119 --> 00:37:18.380 Keep the roof from leaking. Don't freeze in the 00:37:18.380 --> 00:37:20.559 winter. And when the robot does all of that perfectly, 00:37:20.820 --> 00:37:23.940 silently, for free, the basement is fully illuminated 00:37:23.940 --> 00:37:25.900 and solved. Suddenly you are thrust to the top 00:37:25.900 --> 00:37:28.119 of the pyramid, self -actualization. And the 00:37:28.119 --> 00:37:30.320 reality is most people have no idea what to do 00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:32.619 up there. Because purpose has always been assigned 00:37:32.619 --> 00:37:36.039 to us by necessity. Exactly. You have to actively 00:37:36.039 --> 00:37:38.619 choose your purpose now. It is no longer assigned 00:37:38.619 --> 00:37:41.280 to you by a boss, by a corporation, or by the 00:37:41.280 --> 00:37:43.780 harsh demands of nature. And for millions of 00:37:43.780 --> 00:37:46.280 people, that sudden loss of forced structure, 00:37:46.460 --> 00:37:48.699 the loss of the nine to five routine that told 00:37:48.699 --> 00:37:50.500 them who they were and what they were worth will 00:37:50.500 --> 00:37:53.440 be utterly terrifying. Mental health tsunamis 00:37:53.440 --> 00:37:55.920 will crest as people lose their traditional identities 00:37:55.920 --> 00:37:59.280 and stare into the void of total freedom. It 00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:01.980 is the ultimate existential test for our species. 00:38:02.280 --> 00:38:05.519 Can we handle being free? But and I want to emphasize 00:38:05.519 --> 00:38:08.019 this heavily because this is so vital. It is 00:38:08.019 --> 00:38:11.300 a profoundly. positive grand ending. Despite 00:38:11.300 --> 00:38:13.440 the incoming mental health challenges, despite 00:38:13.440 --> 00:38:16.000 the political chaos, the inflation and the Luddite 00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:17.860 riots we have to navigate over the next 5000 00:38:17.860 --> 00:38:20.800 days. This is the ultimate rebirth of humanity. 00:38:20.900 --> 00:38:24.010 It is a fiercely anti -dystopian vision. Yes, 00:38:24.090 --> 00:38:26.869 if you watch movies or read modern sci -fi, it's 00:38:26.869 --> 00:38:29.829 always a dark, gated community wasteland, where 00:38:29.829 --> 00:38:31.849 the ultra -rich hide behind walls with their 00:38:31.849 --> 00:38:34.170 robots while the poor starve in the toxic dust. 00:38:34.469 --> 00:38:37.050 But this analysis shows mathematically why that 00:38:37.050 --> 00:38:39.710 won't happen. The exact same technologies that 00:38:39.710 --> 00:38:42.469 fracture the old, corrupt corporate systems are 00:38:42.469 --> 00:38:45.309 the exact seeds of the new, decentralized, abundant 00:38:45.309 --> 00:38:48.059 system for the individual. We get to leave the 00:38:48.059 --> 00:38:50.679 scarcity mindset behind forever. And in doing 00:38:50.679 --> 00:38:53.099 so, we return to our true birthright as a species. 00:38:53.559 --> 00:38:56.559 Wonderment. Endless curiosity. Love. The infinite 00:38:56.559 --> 00:38:59.440 frontier. Brian notes in his conclusion that 00:38:59.440 --> 00:39:01.619 once we secure our local abundance, once our 00:39:01.619 --> 00:39:03.860 backyards are producing everything we need, we 00:39:03.860 --> 00:39:05.980 won't just sit on the couch. We will spread out 00:39:05.980 --> 00:39:08.000 into the vast open spaces of our planet, restoring 00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:10.739 nature. And eventually, using these exact same 00:39:10.739 --> 00:39:13.340 open -source, self -replicating robotic technologies, 00:39:13.579 --> 00:39:16.010 we will spread to the stars. The human spirit 00:39:16.010 --> 00:39:18.429 doesn't stop just because the rent is paid. We 00:39:18.429 --> 00:39:20.550 survive this dark night of the soul, we endure 00:39:20.550 --> 00:39:22.409 the interregnum, and we step into the light of 00:39:22.409 --> 00:39:25.599 a new era. It is the oldest human story, the 00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:28.079 hero's journey of facing the darkness to bring 00:39:28.079 --> 00:39:31.179 back the fire retold at a galactic exponential 00:39:31.179 --> 00:39:33.880 scale. It really is. And I have to remind you 00:39:33.880 --> 00:39:36.320 listening, this incredible roadmap, this meticulous 00:39:36.320 --> 00:39:39.139 5 ,000 -day crucible survival guide is brought 00:39:39.139 --> 00:39:41.619 to you entirely by the members of the Reed Multiplex. 00:39:42.099 --> 00:39:44.400 Brian Rommel is giving us the intellectual tools 00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:46.619 to navigate the most turbulent transition in 00:39:46.619 --> 00:39:49.480 human history, and he is doing it for free. Please. 00:39:49.980 --> 00:39:52.559 Go to the site. Become a member. Read part 22 00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:54.780 in its entirety. Because we only scratch the 00:39:54.780 --> 00:39:57.039 surface of the technical depth he provides and 00:39:57.039 --> 00:39:59.099 buy him a cup of coffee. He has mapped out the 00:39:59.099 --> 00:40:01.280 future for us and supporting that work is the 00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:03.480 least we can do. He has shown us the architecture 00:40:03.480 --> 00:40:06.340 of the bridge. It is entirely up to us to have 00:40:06.340 --> 00:40:09.059 the courage to walk across it. So as we wrap 00:40:09.059 --> 00:40:11.139 up this massive deep dive, I want to leave you 00:40:11.139 --> 00:40:13.119 with one final provocative thought to mull over. 00:40:13.679 --> 00:40:17.530 We started by talking about that x -ray. The 00:40:17.530 --> 00:40:20.130 comforting clarity of the old world, the routine 00:40:20.130 --> 00:40:21.989 of the broken bone, the certainty that a nine 00:40:21.989 --> 00:40:24.030 -to -five job where someone else tells you what 00:40:24.030 --> 00:40:26.309 your time is worth, that world is fracturing 00:40:26.309 --> 00:40:28.230 right beneath our feet. The diagnosis of the 00:40:28.230 --> 00:40:30.969 old system is undeniable. The old world is gone. 00:40:31.329 --> 00:40:34.349 But the cure, the cure is abundance. So I ask 00:40:34.349 --> 00:40:37.590 you, if tomorrow your dynamic duo of robots could 00:40:37.590 --> 00:40:40.090 seamlessly and silently handle every single physical 00:40:40.090 --> 00:40:42.889 and digital task required to keep you fed, housed, 00:40:43.050 --> 00:40:45.280 secure, and wealthy. What's the very first thing 00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:47.000 you would choose to do with your completely free 00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:49.179 Tuesday morning? Because that Tuesday, it is 00:40:49.179 --> 00:40:49.420 coming.