Tony Seba just revealed why Elon Musk is no longer interested in EVs

The abundance of stuff should not be mistaken for prosperity. We have more stuff now than ever but happiness and contentment are not higher.

A quote from Ambassador Kosch of Babylon 5: "The avalanche has alredy started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."

There’s a deep satisfaction in doing any useful work. If you wash windows for a living and are able to support your family, be proud of that.

I started as a computer programmer just out of college in 1981. All of the computer forecasters said that computer programmers would be obsolete in 5 years. Most people who forecast the future are wrong.

Just remember: the carbon footprint they are working to reduce is everyone not in the club.

The perfect storm: - Humans valued only as a means to transfer UBI to large corporations. - Super intelligent surveillance systems. - Digital currency to neutralize dissidents. - RoboCops for law enforcement and suppression. - A global meaning crisis.

Thanks Sam. Tony has been a friend for many years, many more people need to see and understand the trends that Tony makes crystal clear.

The thing about inventions and technology is the unintended or unseen consequences. It gets humans every time.

I was a fan of UBI for about 5 minutes but then I started wondering were the billionaires that own all the means of production and all the labor power going to be controlling that UBI? If you have a tiny class of people controlling everything then why would they even need the rest of us?

I think with this, poverty will probably rise like never seen. Not because of lack of resources but for the well known greed of those who have all the power. We tend to forget the typical evilness when we predict the future.

As for digital cameras, I worked at Kodak in the 1990s when the r&d boys brought their digital camera invention to then CEO George fisher. He famously laughed and said something to the effect of " why would people want to take their own digital photos when they can just use one of our film cameras, send us that film & we develop their photos for them?" He totally missed one of the bugged market disrupting changes in human history. I still live in rochester NY. Kodak on the other hand is more or less gone. 20 years ago they were the largest employer in town. Now that distinction goes to wegmans super markets. All those high paying manufacturing jobs are gone now... replaced by cashiers and shelf stockers and warehouse employees

Can we replace all politicians,as most of them are corrupt 😂

20 years ago the steel plant I worked in employed over 360 men and women, operated year round, producing 1/4 th the steel it produces today in 2024 with less then 150 men and women. Mostly due to automation... That's 210 less jobs.. and a 300 percent increase in production... corporate profits up... labor cost down.. the name of the game.

Loss of sense of purpose and self-worth will be the most dramatic social impact.

People fail to grasp the fact that once you've trained one robot in a task, you have trained EVERY robot in that task.

if we do not have work, how will we derive meaning out of our lives? Apart from money, people (especially men) derive a sense of purpose and meaning from their work. Without it, they destroy themselves.

In the 1970s, I asked myself, “how do we structure society when new tech is disrupted before it can be commercialized?” I published my answer in 2023 in Amaranthine: How to Create a Regenerative Civilization Using Artificial Intelligence. My experience discussing my findings over the years was that I was telling the monkey with its hand in the trap to let go of the banana. That’s why I turned to AI. The way AI is being developed will be catastrophic, but it does not have to be that way. AI can be used to create a paradise for us as readily as dystopian hell. But we have to let go of our current socioeconomic banana and replace it with a human-centric rather than money-centric society

I have a fundamental question: if most of humans will end up without work since ai and robots will take over, who is going to buy all the products and services that the robots and ai will produce?

Remember when computers came out. Paper was supposed to be obsolete…. 25 years later, I’m still buying ink for the printer. Oh yeah and Ben Ashenden grew up without manners.

Computers, automation and robotics have been in use for twenty five years. People were forced to work less paid hours, part time employees without the benefits of full time employment. We have some of the most highly qualified people running lawn mowing businesses, making coffee in coffee shops, driving Uber cars, telemarketing and doing home deliveries. People do not have enough money to utilise their free time. The WEF intends people should share the experience by watching the rich in videos on TV or YouTube.