[ExI] Sell your Bitcoins!

[Kelly Anderson]

On Sat, Jun 6, 2026 at 7:46 AM spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >… by 2029 AI will probably be pretty unpopular with the general public…
>
> Why do you think that?  The comment is worth exploring.

Spike, virtually every informed actor believes things for the average
Joe are going to get worse from AI before it gets better for everyone.
AI will take jobs before it is ready to provide Universal Basic
Services for everyone. Maybe plumbers and electricians have a few more
years, and maybe they don't. But the average white collar paper pusher
is cooked. I suspect I'm included, even though I have a nice bit of
capital investment in woodworking tools that might see me through the
canyon.

Plenty of political hay will be harvested at AI's expense by the next
presidential election cycle. I don't know if Trump is going to harvest
that hay. Basically, the only way he'll still be around is if there is
a genuine World War type event that threatens America's existence, or
at least significantly threatens our Soma (delivered via the
internet).

Virtually every informed actor believes things will be better for the
average Joe in 15 years, if we survive at all. But the people who lost
their job to the electric loom weren't better off. Their kids were,
but they never were. Hopefully, we can do better this time, but I'm
afraid it's going to take a while to get off the "jobs are life"
bandwagon everyone is currently on.

-Kelly