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Let’s talk about what you will do if the AI Communist Utopia completely takes over the economy of Western and/or first world nations, like I talk about in the book Freedom Fortress.

To be clear, as I clearly state in that book, the AI Communist Utopia might not happen. We don’t know.

It could be that AI never takes over anything and it just becomes a very powerful tool we humans can use to better our lives. Great.

But the AI Communist Utopia COULD happen, and if it does, it will be in the next 10-15 years, and the probability of this happening is not low.

So let’s say it does happen.

That means that you have no economic edge over any other person because AI can do anything you can do, only 1,000 times better.

Why would I or anyone else pay you any money to do something AI could do 1,000 times better, and possibly even for free?

This means you (likely) won’t be able to earn money in the traditional sense that you and I understand as economics today. Maybe.

That’s the bad news. The good news is that the AI will provide you and every other person in the first world with free housing, food, clothing, health care, internet access, and basic transportation.

You won’t live rich; you’ll probably live in a super tiny little apartment, but it will be free. Universal basic income on steroids.

I’ve said many times that if you’re the typical lazy loser (i.e. most people) who just want to sit around and watch streaming and social media shit all day, you’ll love this system

But if you’re a go-getter, entrepreneur, artist, free thinker, or other outside-the-box person (like me), this existence will be Hell on Earth.

So let’s say this actually happens.

What will you do with all of your time?

You don’t need to work. You won’t even need to work around your apartment because likely AI-controlled robots will cook and clean and do all of that stuff for you.

You’ll have all day, every day, to do whatever the hell you want.

So what will you do?

First, let’s cover what you won’t be able to do.

You won’t have any money (unless, perhaps, you were rich before AI took over), so you likely won’t be able to do anything that costs real money, like travel to other countries, have sex with famous Instagram models, buy an amazing sports car, and so on.

So you’ll be stuck with doing basic stuff, like watching TV, smoking weed, hanging out with friends (unless you’re Gen Z since you guys don’t do that anymore), doom-scrolling on TikTok (or whatever the TikTok of the future will be), and so forth.

So what are you going to do all day?

I’m pretty sure the vast majority of humanity will just do that basic bullshit; play endless amazing video games, hang out in virtual worlds like in Ready Player One, fart around on the future version of social media, watch AI-created movies and TV shows, do a lot of drugs, do a lot of masturbating, argue about politics for no reason (there will still be woke-like people and Trump-like people even then, unfortunately), and useless things like that.

But if you’re not a drone-loser like most people (and if you’re reading this content I have a feeling you’re not, or at least don’t want to be) what will YOU do with your time?

It’s a difficult question, isn’t it?

What will you do with your time if you don’t need to work and working won’t make you any money or improve your life economically?

I can tell you what I would do.

To be clear, I would utterly hate all of this. I’d be extremely unhappy under this system. I like merit-based capitalism. That’s why I got the fuck out of the Collapsing USA a long time ago, a place that hates 100% free-market laissez-faire capitalism (yes, including Trump supporters and modern-day Republicans; you guys love big government, or at least don’t mind it).

That’s also why, if/when the AI Communist Utopia takes over and it finally reaches Dubai, by then I’ll be in Paraguay living a normal life while all of you Westerners/first worlders are trapped in happy UBI hell.

But okay, let’s say, for argument’s sake, that I was trapped in this nightmare lowest-common-denominator world with the rest of you. What would I do then?

I know exactly what I would do.

I would write books. Lots of them, both fiction and non-fiction. I’d probably write comic books and produce kickass bloody fantasy animation too.

I’m a born writer. When I was 12 years old and they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, when other kids said rock stars or lawyers or astronauts or famous athletes, I said I wanted to be writer.

Thankfully, that’s exactly what I eventually became as an adult. I’ve made millions of dollars from my writing. I’m one of those lucky few people who became the thing he wanted to be as a child, and who was actually able to make a good living from it.

You might argue that writing books would be a waste of time in the AI Communist Utopia because AI would be able to write books better than I could, and that’s correct.

However, two things…

First, I wouldn’t care. I wouldn’t be writing these books to sell any (because I can’t make money) nor would I be doing it to get famous (I don’t want to be famous, as I’ve said many times).

I would write these books because I love to write, and I would need something to do and purpose in life. I would write for my personal enjoyment and improvement, not to sell anything.

Second, even in an AI-dominated world there will still be a decent percentage of people, a large percentage I think, who will be interested books, comedy, art, movies, and other cultural aspects created by humans rather than AI, even if the AI-generated content was as good or better.

Most people won’t give a shit and will just consume AI-generated content and not care. But a strong cohort of them will want content that comes from the minds of other humans.

I’ll say it a different way. Taco Bell didn’t put all nice Mexican restaurants out of business. People who want cheapass Mexican food eat at Taco Bell and people who want “real” Mexican food eat at nicer Mexican restaurants. And many people eat both, depending on their mood.

So there’s a marketplace for both. Similarly, I think there will be a marketplace for human content and AI content at the same time.

Those people would read my books. Maybe they wouldn’t pay for them because money wouldn’t be a thing, but they’d read them and enjoy them.

Something else that I will have that most people won’t is an online brand.

Those with an online brand will be protected against a lot of this stuff, and I already have one that I’ve built up since 2009. That brand won’t suddenly go away in an AI world. Indeed, it may even grow in such a world.

I could still communicate with people who were following my content before the AI takeover, if I wanted to (and I may not by then; I’ll be in my seventies by then so I may not give a shit at that point; hard to say).

Having an online brand as a hedge against the AI takeover is a big and important topic I’ll talk more about later. The point is that I know I could find something that I would enjoy even if I was in a bizarre nightmare scenario where I wouldn’t have to work and wasn’t able to make any more money.

The problem is that most people aren’t like me. Most people will be completely lost and just lose themselves in a world of TikTok, video games, and porn.

What would you do?

And if the answer to that question is, “I don’t know,” then I think you have a serious problem.

 

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