Post Labor Economics Livestream
In a Nutshell
The 2030s demand intense preparation for the "Don't Die" phase before the Singularity, focusing on physical health (e.g., Brian Johnson protocols), psychological resilience through stages of grief toward acceptance, and navigating worsening societal tensions via rapid global communication absent in past revolutions like the Industrial era. Post-labor economics will dismantle work-based identity and security, enabling garden-like lifestyles with indefinite lifespans, optimal walkable cities, and decentralized coordination via crypto/DAOs for great civil works, while addressing wealth inequality, synthetic foods via AI-driven precision fermentation/genetic engineering, and human fulfillment through tribes, mastery, and status games. Fears of eugenics or uselessness fade with AI democratization and the great decoupling from labor necessity, shifting humanity to self-determined pursuits beyond production-consumption codependence.
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Question on X about if things are getting worse before they get better. Everyone talks about 2040 or 2050 Singularity where everything is solved, but the 2030s—the preparing the 'Don't Die' part, dealing with things getting worse before better—is harder to predict and less explored. Worth discussing despite less fun than post-labor economics lifestyle like living in the woods. If we achieve longevity escape velocity and live thousands or hundreds of years peacefully, immense effort needed in next 10 years.
Getting from here to there: technology solves problems, no law of physics prevents hyper-abundant future in peace and perfect health. Human factor is key concern: how bad will it get between now and then.
Europe's sophistication brought tension between Old Guard (monarchists, religious hegemony) and Republicans wanting democracy—French Revolution, economics and changes. Industrial Revolution: smog-covered London, children maimed in unsafe factories, squalor. Now next Industrial Revolution: fears of losing livelihoods, civil war possible.
All that remains in the cards; question is likelihood and avoidance.
Major difference: communication. Past revolutions (French, American, Industrial, Civil Wars) had limited communication—literacy issues, no letters/telegraphs. Now Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, social brain of Western world and most global with internet access (40% of audience American, rest global, weighted English speakers but huge in India, Germany). Ideas spread at light speed. Enables coordination for better outcome.
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