Things are going to get weird from here on out. Weird like silver being more valuable than gold. And weirder, like copper being more valuable than gold.
But, this isn't really that weird if you think about it. Gold is mined, processed, refined and minted into bars, and then stuck back into the ground for safe keeping. Why did we bother pulling it out of the ground in the first place? It would be 100x more safe if we just left it in the mine where we found it. And much better for the planet, as we didn't waste so much energy.
Things are going to get weird like corporations, and their stocks, and their little bonds too, are just going to go away. Like AAA games are dying. They thought they were too big, but walked away from their fans, and now indie studios are eating their lunch. Now, add indie + AI + crypto (payment) + blockchain (database) + internet + part-time-farmer and you get individuals or small groups making far better games for more specific target audiences. The future will show AAA games as an anomaly, a blip, in time. Corporations will become the much referenced historical anomaly, like the dinosaurs they are.
So many things that we think of as normal, just the way things are done, will be gone. Usually thrown out as one idea makes them useless. Sorta like crypto is replacing fiat paper currency. It is just that much better than what we had before.
(Fast is a relative term. 50 years seems like a long time in a human life, but a small blip in history. Personal computers have really only been out for about 50 years, and look how much it has changed the Earth)
The great migration
People are realizing that they need connection, and specifically, physical connection, with a group of people that have their best interest at heart.
The human can have only about 150 real relationships. It is hardwired limit in people's brains. And having more than this many people around takes up room in the brain with useless noise (not meaningful relationship). So, cities are actually VERY destructive to humans. And people, especially young people, are figuring this out.
Several things are all going to come together, and then we will find young people getting together with a hundred of their closest friends and starting a community.
Technology is coming about that will support this. Locally produced, pollution-free, continuous electric producing devices. Water from rivers in the sky. Internetz everywhere on the planet without wires. Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
Soooooo many suburban houses are going to be left abandoned, along with the mortgages.
Part time farmers.
There is a book out there called "The 10 hour work week" where it discuses that you can grow all your food, tend to your cattle, all in less than 10 hours a week.
For many, many reasons, everyone is going to become a part time farmer. You may be an accountant… and part time farmer. You may be an indie game developer… and part time farmer.
Imagine your are done with your maintenance of your life chores after 10 hours for work, per week! The house is paid for, the utilities are paid, and food is on the table, and you have most of your week left. This is what is coming. This is the future work/life balance.
Better food, better community, better friends, that you spend your time with. Better housing, better environment to raise children in. So much better, so much more betters that people will wonder how/why people lived in cities like that.
Stocks, bonds, fiat, real estate, REITs… gone
Imagine that people get upset at Gilllette because they made a really idiotic commercial that upset a lot of people. But this time, all the people could buy a razor producing machine, and make their own razors. And the people could not only walk away, but stay away, without missing anything.
Imagine that people find out that PostKeLogs is putting actual poison in their cereals (and not just TSP & red5 this time). And instead of boycotting, every community started making their own. And so, the customers were not just gone, they were permanently gone.
The Big corporation are doing far worse than this, and soon people will be walking away from them. Suing them. Boycotting them. Building alternate supply chains. And, if necessary, to stop pollution, tearing the factory down brick brick. If corporations do no straighten up and fly right, they will be gone.
This means, in the near future, there won't be any Big Corporations. There won't be a stock market. There won't be bonds. There won't be real estate as we know it now. Even the concepts of these will seme stupid, like why did we ever do that?
If you told someone that the stock market was going away, without describing and explaining all the steps to its downfall, most people would laugh at your obviously naive and highly imaginative joke.
Imagine if that were true, one observer might say, "that would mean that all these Big Corporations were gone. Just think of all the people who no longer had a job! Think of all the retirement accounts that would be gone! It boggles the mind to think that huge commercial buildings would be empty. How could that be???? haha ha ha ha, that's a good joke…"
However, this is exactly what is going to happen. The corporations aren't going to have the robots making products, it will be the people who have the robots making products. Why keep the middlemen? Especially when BigXXX wants to kill you.
Imagine that Wall Street is gone. And no one misses it. This is what is coming. And the youth today will be living in that world
Plan accordingly.