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hello everybody David Shapiro here with,0.12,5.76
another video so today's video is uh by,2.7,5.939
popular demand uh as we talk more and,5.88,4.86
more about artificial intelligence and,8.639,6.841
the potential of Ubi and AI displacing a,10.74,7.56
lot of jobs uh for some people it seems,15.48,4.74
like it's a foregone conclusion that a,18.3,3.0
lot of people are going to be out of,20.22,3.479
work real soon probably for good,21.3,5.16
uh there's more and more Universal basic,23.699,4.981
basic income experiments going on around,26.46,5.819
the world uh and if you didn't see it I,28.68,5.94
have another video called uh post labor,32.279,4.021
economics which kind of talks about more,34.62,4.56
of the macro economic aspects of that,36.3,5.579
but in this case people really wanted to,39.18,3.86
learn about,41.879,4.5
Ubi on an individual level so let's get,43.04,5.62
right in uh just a real quick plug for,46.379,4.5
my patreon before we get in,48.66,6.0
um I do have a patreon and all tiers get,50.879,6.961
you into the private Discord where I am,54.66,5.579
often available to chat with people I,57.84,4.379
also there's two patreon discords so,60.239,3.74
there's the premium patreon Discord,62.219,4.08
which I prioritize make sure that I,63.979,3.82
answer all questions that people send me,66.299,3.14
on patreon if you're in the premium tier,67.799,4.921
and I also do have occasional office,69.439,5.68
hours uh where we just all kind of get,72.72,4.8
in a voice chat together and then I do,75.119,4.801
all uh have a higher tier for one-on-one,77.52,5.099
sessions all right back to the show,79.92,5.4
so first let's set the stage,82.619,5.701
imagine this future scenario every,85.32,4.979
American gets two thousand dollars a,88.32,4.2
month no questions asked starting at age,90.299,4.68
18 let's also for the sake of this,92.52,4.02
thought experiment assume that Health,94.979,5.1
Care is either heavily subsidized or uh,96.54,5.399
practic for all intents and purposes,100.079,4.5
free if you check out my post labor,101.939,5.82
economics video I talk about how uh AI,104.579,5.161
could lower the cost of of lots of,107.759,4.381
things including Health Care by a factor,109.74,5.72
of 100x or a thousand X in the long run,112.14,6.0
let's also assume that the unemployment,115.46,4.78
rate will be about 70 percent there are,118.14,4.38
some people calling for more some people,120.24,5.699
calling for less but just looking at the,122.52,5.9
number of jobs that are like uh,125.939,4.8
vulnerable to being automated away with,128.42,5.26
AI today my personal estimate is that,130.739,6.36
it's around 70 percent uh let's also,133.68,5.58
assume for the sake of argument that,137.099,5.22
parents get a little bit of Ubi per,139.26,5.52
child but it also tapers per child,142.319,5.581
uh so basically uh you wanna you don't,144.78,5.88
want to necessarily hand out uh as much,147.9,4.5
Ubi for every child because that,150.66,3.24
incentivizes some people to just keep,152.4,3.3
having more children,153.9,3.419
um but on the other hand you also want,155.7,3.539
to ensure that uh you know you,157.319,3.481
incentivize the behaviors that you want,159.239,3.421
to see and so one thing that people are,160.8,3.84
concerned about some people uh are,162.66,3.78
concerned about is population collapse,164.64,3.66
actually this is what we're seeing in,166.44,5.22
places like Italy Japan North Korea uh,168.3,6.24
and other places where the population is,171.66,5.46
actually already slowly Contracting and,174.54,4.979
so you you basically need to incentivize,177.12,3.78
people to have children you need to,179.519,3.481
reward them right now,180.9,4.86
um you get tax breaks uh in the form of,183.0,6.0
uh dependent uh tax credit uh so,185.76,5.339
basically this is kind of like a reverse,189.0,4.319
or not a reverse tax credit but a tax,191.099,4.321
credit in the form of increased income,193.319,4.081
on a monthly basis to help pay for,195.42,4.02
children,197.4,3.96
um let's also assume that GDP growth is,199.44,4.56
going to be something like 15 uh due to,201.36,5.519
AI automation so the idea is that most,204.0,4.56
people aren't working but the GDP is,206.879,3.181
still growing like crazy the stock,208.56,3.48
market is growing like crazy so,210.06,4.08
corporations and politicians there's,212.04,4.68
plenty of wealth to go around so we're,214.14,4.739
basically assuming that a state exists,216.72,5.28
of economic abundance and then also some,218.879,4.741
redistribution oh and there was a,222.0,3.48
question someone was asking what's the,223.62,4.32
difference between this and socialism so,225.48,3.539
the difference between this and,227.94,3.0
socialism is that socialism is about,229.019,4.261
Collective ownership or state ownership,230.94,5.76
so in this case Ubi actually fits within,233.28,5.4
capitalism and neoliberalism because the,236.7,4.02
state isn't owning anything the state is,238.68,4.08
just taxing and redistributing within,240.72,4.379
the existing framework another,242.76,3.6
assumption that we're going to make and,245.099,3.181
I talked about this again in the post,246.36,4.739
labor economics video is uh we're,248.28,4.56
basically going to assume that inflation,251.099,3.661
and deflation are going to be modulated,252.84,4.56
by some of these Market forces,254.76,4.74
uh with things like quantitative easing,257.4,4.559
tax rates and that sort of stuff so,259.5,3.66
we're not going to address that further,261.959,2.821
in this video just assume that prices,263.16,4.319
are stable ish,264.78,6.359
okay so absolute just right off the bat,267.479,5.761
let's talk about budgeting you get two,271.139,4.56
thousand dollars a month uh no further,273.24,3.899
questions asked,275.699,2.461
um the first thing that everyone's,277.139,3.301
thinking is the rent is still way too,278.16,5.22
damn high for this uh you know my my,280.44,4.92
mortgage payment which is you know I,283.38,3.66
bought this house almost 10 years ago so,285.36,5.22
before things went absolutely insane uh,287.04,5.34
my mortgage payment is about twelve,290.58,3.24
hundred dollars a month which is pretty,292.38,2.7
good,293.82,3.0
um but that being said the lowest,295.08,4.02
mortgage payment I ever had was 325,296.82,3.72
dollars a month for a sixty five,299.1,4.08
thousand dollar uh apartment,300.54,5.28
um so it can be done obviously as demand,303.18,4.799
goes up in certain areas the prices also,305.82,5.7
go up uh but point being is that for,307.979,5.28
most people that's just these numbers,311.52,4.44
probably sound completely ridiculous,313.259,4.201
like it's not going to happen again,315.96,3.84
because again ten years ago the economy,317.46,4.98
has changed a lot inflation supply and,319.8,5.399
demand has changed we're facing housing,322.44,4.8
crunches and recessions and all that,325.199,3.541
kind of stuff stuff so again it's like,327.24,4.019
oh you know you everyone's heard like,328.74,4.62
you know someone uh from our parents or,331.259,4.321
grandparents age like oh you know I pay,333.36,3.96
I put a you know family through college,335.58,4.74
on you know a cashier's salary believe,337.32,5.46
me I am aware that economics change over,340.32,4.92
time we will address uh the housing,342.78,3.72
thing in just a minute I'm just kind of,345.24,4.14
setting the stage as to saying okay we,346.5,4.74
need to figure out a way to get housing,349.38,3.78
into six hundred dollars a month or so,351.24,3.36
for everyone,353.16,4.14
cars are another huge huge expense for,354.6,4.08
Americans,357.3,3.54
um so these are the two biggest expenses,358.68,4.859
for most people so you know for instance,360.84,4.799
I have friends that their car payment is,363.539,3.6
six or seven hundred dollars a month,365.639,3.721
that's insane,367.139,4.56
um you know so you combine that with uh,369.36,5.04
you know let's let's say I had a 600 car,371.699,4.381
payment on top of a twelve hundred,374.4,3.42
dollar mortgage that's eighteen hundred,376.08,3.839
dollars a month leaving 200 a month for,377.82,3.719
everything else that's not gonna fly,379.919,3.541
that's not gonna work,381.539,4.861
um now that being said if we can get uh,383.46,5.28
rent or mortgages back down to 600 a,386.4,4.079
month for most people that leaves,388.74,3.899
Fourteen and if we can get rid of cars,390.479,3.72
that leaves about fourteen hundred,392.639,2.941
dollars a month for everything else and,394.199,3.241
also remember in this hypothetical,395.58,4.44
scenario Healthcare is uh highly,397.44,5.4
subsidized or functionally free for most,400.02,4.019
people,402.84,4.32
okay so housing biggest expense let's,404.039,4.801
talk about housing first because if we,407.16,4.08
can get that under control the whole Ubi,408.84,4.56
thing looks a lot more sustainable and,411.24,4.019
feasible for most people,413.4,4.859
so the first thing is downsizing uh a,415.259,4.741
lot of people are already downsizing,418.259,3.78
tiny houses are all the rage right now,420.0,4.139
Katrina Cottages,422.039,3.481
um that kind of kick-started it because,424.139,4.201
after Hurricane Katrina uh of actually,425.52,4.44
what happened was a few celebrities got,428.34,5.16
together and paid for Architects to,429.96,6.42
design Cottages small houses that were,433.5,5.52
very cheap and easy to build so that,436.38,4.439
people that were affected by Katrina,439.02,2.72
could,440.819,3.061
recover more quickly,441.74,5.739
uh ever that didn't start the tiny house,443.88,5.28
Trend but that certainly put it on the,447.479,3.06
map and people are like oh Katrina,449.16,2.939
houses they're pretty cute because again,450.539,3.361
they paid for,452.099,3.241
um professional Architects to make,453.9,2.94
something that was,455.34,3.6
um sustainable and appealing not just,456.84,3.72
cheap and efficient,458.94,4.5
so demand for smaller houses is creating,460.56,4.74
new markets there's,463.44,3.42
um you know last time I looked up at,465.3,3.66
tiny houses a few years ago there were,466.86,4.2
not a whole lot of options now there are,468.96,4.2
tiny house kits there are prefabs there,471.06,3.9
are all kinds of stuff,473.16,4.2
some of the some of the cheapest DIY,474.96,4.859
like livable tiny houses that I could,477.36,4.559
find were around four thousand dollars,479.819,4.201
which is much much more efficient than,481.919,3.601
you know a two hundred thousand dollar,484.02,3.0
house or a four hundred thousand dollar,485.52,3.84
house you can also get pre-built for,487.02,4.44
around 12K and that's you know starting,489.36,4.679
price you can spend up to 200k on a,491.46,4.5
prefab tiny house,494.039,3.481
um which is still cheaper than you know,495.96,4.44
a half a million dollar uh Suburban,497.52,5.04
house uh one thing one of the biggest,500.4,4.32
problems with tiny houses is that um,502.56,3.96
regulations and zoning laws need to be,504.72,5.4
uh updated uh in many municipalities and,506.52,6.0
jurisdictions a tiny house is not,510.12,4.56
allowed to be the primary residence you,512.52,3.48
can have what's called an auxiliary,514.68,3.599
dwelling unit in many places which is,516.0,3.779
basically you can put a tiny house in,518.279,3.361
your backyard but then you need a,519.779,4.801
regular full-sized house so um my wife,521.64,5.16
and I we're about to downsize but even,524.58,4.74
in the countryside the minimum house,526.8,4.56
size that we're allowed to build is 1200,529.32,3.66
square feet so it's smaller than my,531.36,3.0
current house but it still doesn't,532.98,3.359
qualify as a tiny house we would love to,534.36,4.26
have built something smaller but uh,536.339,4.321
because of the because the County zoning,538.62,3.659
laws we're not allowed to build anything,540.66,2.7
smaller,542.279,4.021
so in order to accommodate a shift to a,543.36,5.039
Ubi we're going to need different zoning,546.3,4.44
laws or areas that are zoned for tiny,548.399,5.341
houses another option is portable tiny,550.74,5.18
houses such as trailers or van dwelling,553.74,4.74
now lots of people you know there's the,555.92,4.38
van dwelling subreddit there's plenty of,558.48,4.32
influencers on Tick Tock and YouTube and,560.3,4.979
uh Instagram and everywhere else,562.8,5.34
that either travel or live in a van full,565.279,6.521
time or whatever uh this is this is good,568.14,5.639
for some people it can be very cheap you,571.8,4.26
can also spend a lot of money uh pimping,573.779,4.161
out a van or a bus or whatever,576.06,4.32
there are challenges associated with,577.94,4.78
this such as safety where do you stay,580.38,4.98
permanent address it also requires a,582.72,4.5
vehicle which again Vehicles can be,585.36,3.2
really expensive,587.22,4.5
the last thing is micro Apartments so,588.56,6.279
not everyone wants to own their own home,591.72,5.04
or their own land so micro apartments,594.839,4.141
are something that is an option they're,596.76,4.8
increasingly popular but again there's a,598.98,4.859
lot of regulations particular early in,601.56,4.38
America that prevent us from even,603.839,6.0
building tiny uh Apartments usually the,605.94,5.82
smallest studio apartment you can get is,609.839,4.041
around four to five hundred square feet,611.76,4.44
which you know there's nothing wrong,613.88,3.28
with that,616.2,3.24
but those are often in Trendy areas and,617.16,3.54
so even though it's a small apartment,619.44,4.62
they're often very very expensive,620.7,5.16
um so they're not really optimized for,624.06,4.32
being economical that being said as I,625.86,5.76
mentioned as the market demand for these,628.38,6.3
things goes up the pressure for cities,631.62,5.46
to accommodate that and for the the,634.68,3.96
capitalist class for the for the,637.08,4.379
corporations to accommodate that will go,638.64,3.54
up,641.459,2.581
um and again there's lots of experiments,642.18,4.86
going on but there hasn't been a new,644.04,4.859
establishment and so one thing that I,647.04,4.56
want to talk about is in the context of,648.899,5.701
History the American suburbs those were,651.6,4.679
intentionally designed about 80 years,654.6,4.859
ago after World War II,656.279,6.18
um as as the the nation was beginning to,659.459,6.0
urbanize very quickly uh you know all,662.459,4.861
the regulations and patterns and,665.459,5.161
architectural designs and and Municipal,667.32,5.759
layouts that didn't exist the modern,670.62,4.8
suburb the subdivision was a new,673.079,5.221
invention and so the fact we had we,675.42,5.22
invented a new way of living within the,678.3,4.38
last century tells me that we can invent,680.64,4.319
a new way of living again and it,682.68,4.32
probably won't take that long,684.959,3.781
because where there's a will there's a,687.0,4.2
way and certainly necessity is the,688.74,4.2
mother of all invention and we will need,691.2,4.319
to figure out alternative ways of living,692.94,4.2
that are not centered on the American,695.519,3.481
suburb,697.14,3.78
um another option other than downsizing,699.0,4.079
is combining households so this is,700.92,5.64
called co-living or co-housing one there,703.079,5.76
are successful uh co-housing and,706.56,4.92
co-living things around the world in,708.839,4.201
America they're usually actually more,711.48,4.26
expensive because of construction costs,713.04,5.52
regulations red tape and so on and so,715.74,5.36
forth in many cases,718.56,4.8
particularly if you look on on Reddit,721.1,3.9
under the co-housing and co-living,723.36,4.32
subreddits there are plenty of horror,725.0,4.959
stories of very very dangerous,727.68,4.08
manipulative people building these,729.959,5.521
communities so I want to urge caution uh,731.76,5.34
before you get involved in any of those,735.48,2.84
kinds of things,737.1,4.56
now that being said there are uh,738.32,5.5
successful examples in America but there,741.66,3.9
are more successful examples around the,743.82,4.92
world particularly in Europe in various,745.56,4.62
places,748.74,4.44
uh there's Eco Villages which are,750.18,6.18
focused on sustainability uh they're,753.18,6.06
basically like uh Co-op Farms,756.36,6.24
essentially uh now that being said there,759.24,6.42
is uh there's a lot of rising Trends,762.6,4.979
around co-living in conventional houses,765.66,4.08
you don't necessarily need a special,767.579,4.801
Village or a special structure right,769.74,3.96
because that's where the red tape and,772.38,4.44
Regulation and excess cost comes in what,773.7,4.74
a lot of people do is actually just,776.82,4.139
combine finances and live in a larger,778.44,5.519
house and so there is a trend that,780.959,5.401
started a few years ago called mommunes,783.959,3.961
and there's actually services that can,786.36,4.919
help single moms find each other to join,787.92,6.12
forces band together and and combine,791.279,6.18
households uh obviously not everyone is,794.04,5.76
a single mother so that model doesn't,797.459,5.461
work for everyone but you know put it,799.8,5.7
this way uh some of my friends in my 20s,802.92,5.28
uh they got together and rented a large,805.5,5.639
house and so having two or three couples,808.2,5.1
living together or even just a few,811.139,4.561
friends you know three four five friends,813.3,4.8
living together if you combine those,815.7,4.56
incomes and you end up with eight or,818.1,4.039
twelve thousand dollars per month,820.26,4.199
guaranteed income from Universal based,822.139,4.181
income from from combining households,824.459,4.32
you can afford a pretty nice house for,826.32,5.16
that uh and so this is a pretty simple,828.779,4.141
model,831.48,3.479
um but what I will say is that finding,832.92,4.26
the right people can be challenging,834.959,3.721
um certainly there have been there are,837.18,4.02
plenty of cases of people having gotten,838.68,4.26
stuck with toxic roommates or,841.2,4.079
destructive uh Partners or whatever and,842.94,4.44
getting trapped in those situations so,845.279,3.781
we will need to keep in mind that some,847.38,3.84
people are going to be better and safer,849.06,4.2
living on their own certainly plenty of,851.22,4.739
people want want to live that way but,853.26,5.16
that being said the social advantages,855.959,4.801
that come from joining forces and,858.42,3.96
banding together,860.76,4.319
um of course we just got we're on the,862.38,4.5
tail end of the pandemic in which case a,865.079,3.0
lot of people actually were kind of,866.88,3.12
forced into that situation you know we,868.079,3.601
created our little survival groups right,870.0,3.6
it was like The Walking Dead,871.68,4.44
um you know you band together uh so,873.6,5.7
anyways uh whether you downsize or join,876.12,5.459
forces or a little bit of both those are,879.3,4.979
ways that you can drastically reduce uh,881.579,5.101
housing costs uh here in America,884.279,5.041
again the biggest thing is that uh,886.68,4.5
particularly on the downsizing we need,889.32,3.78
to update our zoning laws and,891.18,4.14
regulations to accommodate this but I,893.1,4.08
have no doubt that the the pressure from,895.32,5.22
people to do this will uh will kind of,897.18,6.42
force um the government's hand,900.54,4.56
um all right so Transportation I,903.6,3.179
mentioned you know cars are really,905.1,3.9
expensive and America is a car culture,906.779,4.141
so how do we how do we reduce,909.0,3.899
Transportation costs,910.92,4.8
the first thing is walkable cities so,912.899,5.101
most cities I don't know I don't know,915.72,3.84
about most but many cities in Europe,918.0,4.38
were designed and built and founded long,919.56,5.639
before cars uh and so because of that,922.38,5.04
walkability is kind of intrinsic to a,925.199,4.621
lot of European cities however whoops,927.42,3.659
come back,929.82,3.72
um a lot of American cities uh were,931.079,5.88
designed and built with cars in mind and,933.54,5.039
so because of that a lot of American,936.959,3.901
cities are designed around the car they,938.579,4.801
actually prioritize uh and privilege,940.86,5.099
cards over pedestrians which is super,943.38,5.1
super problematic now that being said,945.959,5.161
there are literally dozens of major,948.48,4.919
projects going on around the world to,951.12,5.279
experiment with new walkable cities uh,953.399,5.101
and then of course there are um you know,956.399,4.321
hundreds if not thousands of smaller,958.5,4.86
experiments uh you know of like Urban,960.72,4.2
revitalization,963.36,4.919
uh the cities near where I live all up,964.92,5.7
and down the east coast in the South,968.279,4.081
um they're they're building walkable,970.62,4.14
areas maybe not the entire city is,972.36,5.279
walkable but some of it is walkable and,974.76,5.28
so this focus on green spaces and,977.639,3.961
walkability,980.04,3.479
um is rising there's a couple of YouTube,981.6,3.66
channels I want to recommend,983.519,3.18
um one is City beautiful and the other,985.26,3.6
is not just bikes these are really great,986.699,3.661
channels they're really informative and,988.86,3.419
they will point out all of the things,990.36,3.599
wrong with American cities,992.279,2.941
um the things that some American cities,993.959,3.601
get right that'll compare American,995.22,4.619
cities with European and Asian cities as,997.56,4.86
well but for instance I've been to Paris,999.839,5.221
and I was surprised at at such a,1002.42,5.64
sprawling City I was at the on the at,1005.06,4.8
the Cathedral on the hill soccer tour,1008.06,4.019
which means Sacred Heart and I know they,1009.86,4.8
didn't say it with the right accent,1012.079,4.861
um but it's literally parasite to the,1014.66,4.26
Horizon you cannot see outside of the,1016.94,4.019
city from the middle of the city,1018.92,3.659
um but you don't need a car in Paris,1020.959,3.72
it's wild and like as an American that,1022.579,3.781
was the first time I had been one in a,1024.679,4.681
city that big but two in a in a fully,1026.36,4.439
walkable city,1029.36,2.76
um some of the Metros were fully,1030.799,2.821
automated which was really cool because,1032.12,2.76
you could go all the way up to the front,1033.62,3.6
and look out the front windows,1034.88,4.799
um there's buses there's Light Rail and,1037.22,4.5
then of course uh you know they have the,1039.679,3.9
tgv which is the high speed rail to get,1041.72,3.599
outside of the city,1043.579,4.38
um anyways point being is that there are,1045.319,4.381
lots of these experiments going on and,1047.959,3.541
so for people that want to stay living,1049.7,5.099
inside of a city if you combine those,1051.5,4.919
micro apartments or those co-living,1054.799,4.201
situations with walkability that will,1056.419,4.981
drastically drastically reduce cost of,1059.0,5.039
living from for many people it will take,1061.4,4.08
some time to build this up especially,1064.039,3.721
since we've got so much invested in,1065.48,5.76
being a car culture but ride sharing,1067.76,5.7
um and and fully automated cars are,1071.24,3.78
coming and actually forgot to create a,1073.46,3.599
slide for this but one of the things,1075.02,3.96
that a lot of the big auto manufacturers,1077.059,3.601
want to do is actually have fleets of,1078.98,3.059
Robo taxis,1080.66,4.62
and so rather than owning a car you'll,1082.039,5.64
just use an app to summon you know you,1085.28,4.86
know a Ford or a Chevy or a Toyota or,1087.679,6.481
whatever and as uh competition drives,1090.14,5.58
down price,1094.16,3.78
um I think I did a calculation once that,1095.72,6.0
the the total the total annual cost for,1097.94,6.18
me if I were to if I were able to switch,1101.72,4.44
to a robo taxi based on the hypothetical,1104.12,5.16
Rider mile cost would probably be about,1106.16,6.36
600 a year and I'm someone who drives 20,1109.28,6.96
000 miles per year so the possibility of,1112.52,6.3
doing rideshares and Robo taxis could,1116.24,4.38
drastically drastically reduce the cost,1118.82,4.62
of ownership for um automobiles or,1120.62,4.86
rather you get rid of the ownership cost,1123.44,4.08
and you just rent,1125.48,5.579
uh in real time another thing is if you,1127.52,4.92
don't want to live in the city because I,1131.059,2.581
sure as heck don't want to live in the,1132.44,2.88
city I am not a city boy I'm a country,1133.64,4.86
boy is what I call coaster Villages and,1135.32,4.68
these are starting to pop up they're,1138.5,3.179
often just called like tiny house,1140.0,3.96
communities or RV communities or,1141.679,5.101
whatever but again this is one of the,1143.96,5.52
things where uh where zoning laws need,1146.78,4.68
to be updated but fortunately these,1149.48,3.9
experiments are going but basically,1151.46,4.8
think of the Shire think of hobbiton but,1153.38,4.26
instead of you know underground houses,1156.26,5.159
it's tiny houses and Katrina Cottages uh,1157.64,7.38
and and tag along kind of um kind of,1161.419,6.721
trailers basically what I anticipate is,1165.02,5.22
going to happen is that in cheap rural,1168.14,4.919
land a lot of that land is going to end,1170.24,5.96
up being used for very very small,1173.059,6.541
planned nearly self-sufficient not,1176.2,5.08
necessarily fully self-sufficient I'm,1179.6,4.199
not saying an Eco Village but rather,1181.28,4.5
than having uh these things planned,1183.799,4.5
around cars and subdivisions it'll be,1185.78,5.46
planned around sustainability and so,1188.299,4.62
that what I mean by coaster is someone,1191.24,3.12
who decides you know what I'm just going,1192.919,3.241
to Coast on Ubi I'm going to be happy,1194.36,3.6
with that but I also want to live in the,1196.16,3.24
countryside,1197.96,4.44
uh you will need things like HOAs uh,1199.4,4.26
because you know,1202.4,4.68
uh good regulations and good agreements,1203.66,5.04
make good neighbors,1207.08,3.78
um and so you will need stuff like HOAs,1208.7,4.62
still in some of these places but the,1210.86,4.02
total cost of living there is going to,1213.32,3.84
be much much lower because imagine if,1214.88,4.86
your plot of land and your tiny house is,1217.16,5.28
about forty thousand dollars total right,1219.74,4.679
the mortgage payment on that is going to,1222.44,3.54
be like 80 bucks a month or something,1224.419,4.681
like that uh maybe well let's say 200,1225.98,5.64
bucks a month you can afford that,1229.1,5.4
um that's going to be a tenth of your uh,1231.62,5.6
monthly two thousand dollars uh income,1234.5,5.22
uh so between these two possibilities,1237.22,4.42
walkable cities for those who want the,1239.72,5.1
urban living and and Tiny House Villages,1241.64,5.34
out in the countryside we can probably,1244.82,4.979
accommodate a lot of people very,1246.98,4.92
efficiently and very cheaply,1249.799,5.641
Okay cool so I think uh oh and also,1251.9,4.86
another advantage of these coaster,1255.44,3.0
Villages is you don't necessarily need a,1256.76,2.4
car,1258.44,2.7
uh you know if you live like Bilbo,1259.16,4.68
Baggins and and Frodo you just walk to,1261.14,4.2
your neighbors it's a tiny little,1263.84,2.579
village,1265.34,2.82
all right now one thing that a lot of,1266.419,5.101
people ask is okay yeah but what you,1268.16,4.62
know what if I still want more money,1271.52,3.0
what if I'm willing to work what if I'm,1272.78,3.24
able to work,1274.52,3.48
um what is what are the options going to,1276.02,4.2
be so that I can still you know make,1278.0,3.9
some money and get by,1280.22,4.199
so after doing a lot of research one,1281.9,5.22
thing that I found is that local goods,1284.419,4.981
and services there's going to be a lot,1287.12,3.419
of these that are going to stick around,1289.4,4.44
and this is because even if a robot can,1290.539,5.101
do it these are these are things that,1293.84,4.86
you still prefer a human to do and that,1295.64,4.44
most humans will be willing to pay,1298.7,3.54
another human to do so the first,1300.08,4.02
category is the health and wellness,1302.24,3.84
stuff so this includes Fitness coaches,1304.1,4.439
personal trainers massage therapists,1306.08,4.979
that sort of stuff these are the these,1308.539,4.38
are the kind of things that require a,1311.059,4.74
human touch or human empathy or at least,1312.919,4.861
those are highly preferable,1315.799,4.921
so this will be things like Barbers and,1317.78,4.62
dentists and massage therapists that,1320.72,2.959
sort of thing,1322.4,3.42
education tutoring mentoring and,1323.679,4.901
coaching these are also things that uh,1325.82,6.3
that could be pretty durable against uh,1328.58,6.479
being automated away certainly uh some,1332.12,4.38
online learning is going to be fully,1335.059,5.341
replaced by things like chat gbt,1336.5,5.82
excuse me many students are already,1340.4,3.899
using chat GPT for Learning and,1342.32,4.02
mentoring and tutoring and certainly I,1344.299,3.181
mean even I use that if there's,1346.34,2.94
something that I want to learn about it,1347.48,4.26
is one of the best teaching resources,1349.28,5.16
out there because it's interactive now,1351.74,4.74
that being said there are still going to,1354.44,4.92
be plenty of classes and skills that are,1356.48,4.8
going to be better taught by a human,1359.36,4.559
because a human has the same abilities,1361.28,5.16
and capacities that you do so say for,1363.919,4.26
instance you go to a painting class or a,1366.44,5.099
cooking class or a carpentry class those,1368.179,5.161
are the kinds of things that that you,1371.539,4.38
will you will prefer to pay for a human,1373.34,4.68
just for the experience of being with,1375.919,3.921
other people right,1378.02,5.399
another thing is going to be experiences,1379.84,5.5
such as performances and entertainment,1383.419,6.061
local music stage performances busking,1385.34,6.06
um you know those sorts of things are,1389.48,4.079
going to be pretty resilient because,1391.4,4.92
again we are a social species and so we,1393.559,4.341
want that connection with other people,1396.32,4.08
uh Ren fairs or think are going to be,1397.9,4.42
really popular,1400.4,3.3
um and so you know you can go set up,1402.32,3.06
your booth and do face painting at a ren,1403.7,4.02
fair or or whatever kind of festival or,1405.38,4.56
convention you want to go to,1407.72,4.439
um caregiving grooming and hygiene these,1409.94,5.04
are other things so whether it is child,1412.159,6.9
care or elder care or Pet Care those,1414.98,5.4
kinds of jobs are going to be very,1419.059,3.181
resilient against being fully automated,1420.38,4.919
away because again even if you do have a,1422.24,4.38
robot that can take care of grandma,1425.299,3.841
grandma probably would want to see you,1426.62,5.52
rather than a robot unless you don't get,1429.14,5.06
along maybe maybe it's better that way,1432.14,5.519
but also like your dog right like my dog,1434.2,5.8
hates machines right so he would freak,1437.659,4.38
out if if a robot showed up to take him,1440.0,5.4
for a walk so um you know granted I'll I,1442.039,6.061
I work at home all day every day so I,1445.4,4.32
don't need pet walkers but some people,1448.1,2.76
would,1449.72,3.72
other domestic services like gardening,1450.86,5.48
Lawn Care cooking cleaning,1453.44,5.52
growing and sharing food these are,1456.34,4.959
things that will probably persist as,1458.96,5.699
well because again local economies,1461.299,5.641
circular economies these are rising in,1464.659,5.101
popularity and then finally Artisan uh,1466.94,5.46
and and Craftsman handmade Goods arts,1469.76,4.56
and crafts these are the kinds of things,1472.4,3.72
that people will really value and,1474.32,3.66
cherish and it's also something that a,1476.12,2.72
machine,1477.98,4.76
intrinsically cannot do in the age where,1478.84,6.4
machines can make all kinds of furniture,1482.74,4.78
and mass produce it we still already,1485.24,4.38
have Etsy where you can buy handmade,1487.52,4.32
clothing and handmade furniture and,1489.62,5.039
handmade tools and so the demand is,1491.84,4.8
already there and one thing that that,1494.659,4.861
can happen of of SP and yes they're more,1496.64,4.98
expensive but these are much higher,1499.52,4.26
quality goods and they're also much more,1501.62,3.299
durable,1503.78,4.74
uh so again even if those even if,1504.919,5.461
mass-produced Goods become cheaper due,1508.52,3.84
to AI there's still going to be a demand,1510.38,4.679
for those high quality handmade uh,1512.36,6.299
unique goods and arts and crafts,1515.059,6.24
now okay so that's local uh goods and,1518.659,4.861
services there's also still going to be,1521.299,4.62
um online and remote so content creators,1523.52,5.7
like me probably gonna stick around,1525.919,5.521
um influencers streamers whether it's a,1529.22,4.5
lifestyle blog or travel blog or,1531.44,4.56
whatever I follow I started following,1533.72,4.5
lots of Lifestyle bloggers,1536.0,4.2
um usually they're attractive uh women,1538.22,4.04
because you know that's just the pattern,1540.2,5.04
but I also follow plenty of uh plenty of,1542.26,5.26
guys who like build stuff or go on,1545.24,4.98
adventures that kind of thing and the,1547.52,3.899
reason that I think that these are going,1550.22,3.24
to stick around is because even if you,1551.419,5.341
have a fully digital Avatar your brain,1553.46,6.0
knows that it's fake right some people,1556.76,5.64
of course will be plenty entertained by,1559.46,5.699
uh you know a digital Avatar but really,1562.4,5.82
as a human I want to see another human's,1565.159,5.4
experience I want to learn from that,1568.22,4.92
human I want to empathize with that,1570.559,3.541
person,1573.14,4.019
and so content influence streamers you,1574.1,4.62
know it's the personality it's the,1577.159,3.721
realness the authenticity,1578.72,3.48
um even if even if there is some,1580.88,3.48
performance associated with it that's,1582.2,5.099
what people really want to connect with,1584.36,4.74
um crowdfunding platforms like patreon,1587.299,3.961
only fans plenty of other alternatives,1589.1,4.079
are out there those are going to stick,1591.26,4.98
around uh and and so basically the two,1593.179,4.561
ways that you can make money online in,1596.24,3.9
the future I think are going to be ads,1597.74,4.74
and crowdfunding there's also white,1600.14,4.68
label services like subscription-based,1602.48,4.199
services but that's essentially,1604.82,3.54
crowdfunding right let's like you you,1606.679,3.801
pay to get in and then you get access to,1608.36,5.52
exclusive content game hosts coach,1610.48,5.5
coaches and and trainers of various,1613.88,4.44
kinds so one of my patreon supporters is,1615.98,5.04
actually a a professional online coach,1618.32,5.4
and she teaches other coaches and this,1621.02,5.399
is actually a really really huge uh,1623.72,4.5
Market segment I had no idea how big it,1626.419,2.701
was,1628.22,3.66
um but again having that one-on-one time,1629.12,4.439
with someone where you can say hey this,1631.88,2.76
is what I'm struggling dealing with,1633.559,2.581
because we're humans we're always going,1634.64,4.139
to be struggling with something right,1636.14,4.26
um but then like Game host there's paid,1638.779,3.541
dungeon Masters that can host uh they,1640.4,4.5
can run d d campaigns for you all kinds,1642.32,4.8
of stuff is possible online that are,1644.9,4.56
intrinsically better done if it's a,1647.12,4.14
human that being said there are plenty,1649.46,3.719
of people working on using GPT,1651.26,4.74
Technologies to automate uh uh you know,1653.179,4.681
game hosts and that sort of stuff so,1656.0,3.659
some of this is going to be is going to,1657.86,2.64
change,1659.659,3.12
but a lot of these things again people,1660.5,6.299
are willing are are the demand for the,1662.779,5.701
human is high enough that people are,1666.799,3.541
going to be willing to pay for it,1668.48,4.98
uh now on top of making more money on,1670.34,6.18
with the Ubi uh there is also a lot that,1673.46,4.86
you can do to reduce to further reduce,1676.52,4.2
costs obviously the biggest things are,1678.32,3.9
housing and transportation we already,1680.72,2.819
talked about how to reduce the cost,1682.22,3.42
there there's a lot of other stuff that,1683.539,4.441
we can do to keep reducing costs in,1685.64,4.32
order to make better use of the free,1687.98,4.079
time that we have so for instance tool,1689.96,4.02
sharing tool libraries,1692.059,3.36
um there's actually I didn't realize,1693.98,4.38
this but many County Libraries or or um,1695.419,5.521
you know City libraries already have,1698.36,4.98
tools that you can check out uh and then,1700.94,4.14
of course if the demand for that goes up,1703.34,4.38
then libraries you know will continue to,1705.08,5.52
do that there's also maker spaces that,1707.72,4.62
you can join usually with a small fee,1710.6,3.36
that give you a space to build stuff and,1712.34,4.74
borrow tools circular economics which is,1713.96,5.12
you know reusing as much as you can,1717.08,3.719
refurbishing stuff we're going to talk,1719.08,3.219
about refurbishing more in a future,1720.799,2.941
slide,1722.299,4.081
uh clothing exchanges clothing swaps,1723.74,5.22
other good swaps like one thing that I,1726.38,5.399
do is that uh every now and then,1728.96,4.8
um I just I have a folding card table,1731.779,3.721
and I'll put it out by the road and I,1733.76,4.86
just will give stuff away right and so,1735.5,5.279
um by just giving stuff away and sharing,1738.62,4.919
right you don't even have to worry about,1740.779,4.741
um you know bartering or exchanging or,1743.539,4.861
buying stuff just giving stuff away and,1745.52,5.88
and making use of those um essentially,1748.4,5.519
community-based donations sharing,1751.4,5.7
Services as well so say for instance,1753.919,5.281
um you know you might provide child care,1757.1,3.78
for people in your community not,1759.2,3.719
necessarily for pay but in exchange they,1760.88,4.919
give you food or something right so that,1762.919,5.101
goes back to bartering and trading uh,1765.799,5.88
DIY skills uh repairing things fixing,1768.02,5.879
things uh cleaning up whatever there's,1771.679,4.141
lots and lots of value that you can get,1773.899,5.101
by learning more skills and thus further,1775.82,4.8
reducing costs,1779.0,3.6
uh caregiving domestic stuff I already,1780.62,3.0
mentioned that,1782.6,3.299
okay so let's talk about the psychology,1783.62,3.6
of this one thing that people are,1785.899,3.121
concerned about is yeah but what do you,1787.22,4.38
do for fun what do you do for a sense of,1789.02,4.62
Mastery what do you do for challenge if,1791.6,4.74
I lose my job you know how do I have any,1793.64,4.8
sense of self-esteem so let's talk about,1796.34,5.16
the psychology of living under Ubi,1798.44,5.94
first we're going to talk about what,1801.5,4.86
we're going to use Frameworks for this,1804.38,4.2
so first one of the most famous ones is,1806.36,4.38
Maslow's hierarchy of needs so if you're,1808.58,3.9
not familiar with Maslow's hierarchy of,1810.74,3.84
needs it is basically just this pyramid,1812.48,4.62
which is color coded like the food,1814.58,5.94
pyramid if you're in America but it says,1817.1,5.699
you need to satisfy these needs starting,1820.52,4.62
from bottom to top so physiological,1822.799,4.321
needs include air water food shelter,1825.14,4.44
sleep that sort of stuff safety needs,1827.12,4.38
which is about you know are you in,1829.58,5.219
physical danger do you feel safe at home,1831.5,6.659
is is your environment quiet enough are,1834.799,5.281
there any you know dangerous smells or,1838.159,4.081
chemicals or whatever,1840.08,4.44
above that once you have those needs met,1842.24,5.28
the next most fundamental need is love,1844.52,4.92
and belonging so you need friends you,1847.52,4.5
need family you need to feel that human,1849.44,4.859
connection and of course we're in a,1852.02,3.72
loneliness crisis I think something like,1854.299,3.6
30 percent of young people today don't,1855.74,4.679
have a single like best friend which is,1857.899,4.441
really horrible and I'm hoping that Ubi,1860.419,4.441
gives us more free time to connect with,1862.34,5.64
people uh above love and belonging you,1864.86,5.299
need esteem self-esteem which is,1867.98,5.22
self-respect status recognition that,1870.159,4.481
sort of stuff,1873.2,3.719
and then finally self-actualization so,1874.64,3.48
this is what a lot of people are,1876.919,3.36
referring to when they when they worry,1878.12,4.559
about okay well if I lose my job what am,1880.279,3.841
I going to do I need some kind of,1882.679,2.821
self-actualization and so,1884.12,4.38
self-actualization is the impulse to,1885.5,5.52
become the best version of yourself that,1888.5,4.5
is the that is the version to reach your,1891.02,5.1
highest level right uh and so these are,1893.0,4.559
things that are still going to need to,1896.12,3.659
be there and we'll talk about this,1897.559,4.681
um in future slides,1899.779,4.321
um in terms of how can how can you,1902.24,3.84
achieve your best the best version of,1904.1,3.199
yourself,1906.08,4.199
another framework that I'm a big fan of,1907.299,5.5
is what's called TLC or therapeutic,1910.279,4.861
Lifestyle Changes this was a model that,1912.799,4.62
was developed by Roger Walsh and it is,1915.14,4.38
an eight-point framework that talks,1917.419,4.021
about how do you make a better life for,1919.52,3.24
yourself,1921.44,3.66
so the framework is pretty simple pretty,1922.76,4.08
straightforward one and this is in no,1925.1,3.78
particular order by the way one,1926.84,4.5
spirituality so being involved in some,1928.88,3.899
kind of spirituality doesn't have to be,1931.34,3.719
a mega church or anything like that,1932.779,5.101
um you know paganism witchcraft uh Neo,1935.059,6.6
Hellenism uh uh all kinds of stuff Norse,1937.88,5.7
reconstructionists lots and lots of,1941.659,3.541
spiritual Frameworks are kind of,1943.58,4.92
becoming popular as uh certainly a lot,1945.2,6.18
of us younger people are more Pagan,1948.5,5.159
um giving back so volunteering and,1951.38,4.2
community service is one of the things,1953.659,3.9
that um you know again we kind of,1955.58,4.14
alluded to this already in terms of cost,1957.559,5.0
reduction but giving back volunteering,1959.72,5.699
giving your time is actually a really,1962.559,5.561
good way to build up self-esteem it's,1965.419,4.561
deeply satisfying,1968.12,3.659
um like I said one thing that I love is,1969.98,4.679
just giving stuff away and if I had more,1971.779,5.581
free time and and uh and energy I would,1974.659,5.161
probably volunteer more because I have,1977.36,5.46
certain skills and you know honestly uh,1979.82,5.28
a lot of the code that I give away,1982.82,3.9
because I publish all of my code under,1985.1,4.38
under or open source standards to me,1986.72,4.26
that is kind of like giving back and,1989.48,3.12
it's very satisfying I love seeing the,1990.98,3.539
little stars and forks on my GitHub,1992.6,4.86
repos time in nature,1994.519,4.861
um hiking walking going to the lake,1997.46,4.439
whatever this is really important for,1999.38,4.5
your physical and mental health I go for,2001.899,4.38
a walk pretty much every day at lunch,2003.88,4.44
unless the weather is bad or unless I'm,2006.279,4.38
sick or too tired recreational,2008.32,3.9
activities we're going to talk a lot,2010.659,3.481
about recreational activities and,2012.22,4.74
upcoming slides rest in relaxation if,2014.14,4.139
you don't have to go to work you can,2016.96,2.699
spend a lot more time resting and,2018.279,3.961
relaxing diet and nutrition we've talked,2019.659,5.281
a lot about uh how or we will talk more,2022.24,5.4
about how all the free time that you get,2024.94,4.68
from Ubi will allow you to do things,2027.64,3.72
like gardening but also allow you to,2029.62,3.12
learn to cook and spend more time,2031.36,3.24
cooking because a lot of people don't,2032.74,4.14
have time to cook good meals because,2034.6,5.579
they're too busy working and resting and,2036.88,5.519
so Ubi with additional free time will,2040.179,4.201
help people really improve their diet,2042.399,4.921
and nutrition seven exercise and,2044.38,5.4
activity so this is like exercising for,2047.32,4.2
the sake of exercise,2049.78,3.839
um which for me I get that with time and,2051.52,4.139
nature because I go for walks um and I,2053.619,4.321
also uh like to do other things although,2055.659,4.081
I haven't done it as much lately hiking,2057.94,4.5
climbing that sort of stuff kayaking uh,2059.74,4.139
relationships in connection we already,2062.44,2.76
talked about relationships and,2063.879,2.401
connection,2065.2,3.179
um in Maslow's hierarchy of needs and,2066.28,3.78
also you'll see that relationships and,2068.379,3.0
connections spending time with friends,2070.06,4.26
and family is is common for all,2071.379,5.48
psychological well-being Frameworks,2074.32,5.099
self-determination Theory this is one of,2076.859,4.24
my favorite Frameworks because it is so,2079.419,4.081
simple and it kind of encapsulates a lot,2081.099,4.381
but it's also not a hierarchy it's you,2083.5,4.679
need all three of these at all times,2085.48,4.58
um and so the idea is that,2088.179,3.96
self-determination theory is this is,2090.06,3.64
what is this is what people are,2092.139,3.96
intrinsically motivated by these are the,2093.7,4.2
intrinsic psychological needs of all,2096.099,4.981
humans so first is autonomy,2097.9,5.52
um or individual liberty we need to feel,2101.08,4.56
like we are in control of our lives and,2103.42,5.04
our fate this is absolutely critical for,2105.64,5.28
All Humans even humans in collectivist,2108.46,4.56
societies there's always a tension,2110.92,5.52
between individual needs and group needs,2113.02,4.92
um but that's intrinsic to all social,2116.44,3.899
species it's about balancing the self,2117.94,5.399
versus the group desire for competence,2120.339,5.641
and Mastery so this is this has to do,2123.339,4.561
with Maslow's top hierarchy of needs,2125.98,2.82
which is self-esteem and,2127.9,3.179
self-actualization so competence and,2128.8,4.74
Mastery the the basically feeling like,2131.079,4.441
you're good at something one way to,2133.54,3.96
measure this is that we Thrive with,2135.52,4.44
what's called optimal stress so optimal,2137.5,3.96
stress means that you need some kind of,2139.96,2.46
challenge,2141.46,3.18
for instance people play Elden ring,2142.42,4.439
people play Dark Souls these really,2144.64,5.16
frustrating impossible games that I,2146.859,5.22
personally don't like but the idea is,2149.8,4.02
that you try and fail and then when you,2152.079,4.02
finally succeed you feel a sense of,2153.82,3.84
Mastery right and of course video games,2156.099,3.061
are not the only way to get Mastery but,2157.66,3.0
video games are a good way to get a,2159.16,3.48
sense of Mastery and as we'll talk about,2160.66,3.66
once we talk about Hobbies there are,2162.64,4.14
lots and lots of of other ways to get,2164.32,4.92
that sense of Mastery finally desire for,2166.78,4.559
relatedness and connection as a social,2169.24,4.26
species we are intrinsically motivated,2171.339,4.441
to seek out connection with others and,2173.5,4.26
so by keeping in mind what our intrinsic,2175.78,4.38
base needs are and building a life,2177.76,4.68
around that we can still maintain our,2180.16,4.439
psychological well-being even if we,2182.44,4.62
don't have a career at least a,2184.599,3.841
conventional career that we're familiar,2187.06,2.34
with,2188.44,4.139
okay as I promised Hobbies this is the,2189.4,4.56
last section of the video and this is,2192.579,3.361
honestly where I had the most fun and it,2193.96,4.02
made me really realize I am looking,2195.94,3.6
forward to this,2197.98,3.06
um so I'm gonna do everything that I can,2199.54,4.2
to help make this future State come to,2201.04,5.16
fruition with my YouTube channel and my,2203.74,4.8
open source research so the first thing,2206.2,4.74
obviously gaming a lot of you tell me,2208.54,3.96
how excited you are for the possibility,2210.94,4.2
of fdvr which means full dive virtual,2212.5,3.839
reality,2215.14,3.959
everyone knows what fdvr is you saw it,2216.339,4.561
in the Matrix the idea is that you plug,2219.099,4.74
your head in and as far as you can tell,2220.9,5.1
it is a hundred percent real we also,2223.839,4.02
explored this with um Ready Player one,2226.0,4.68
which had like a haptic suits,2227.859,4.5
um I don't know if it's possible a,2230.68,3.06
haptic suit seems like it's probably,2232.359,4.441
more possible in the near term full dive,2233.74,4.74
VR such as the what you see in the,2236.8,3.96
Matrix might not be possible but you,2238.48,4.56
never know people are working on brain,2240.76,4.2
computer interfaces so if you can just,2243.04,3.72
plug in all the sensory information,2244.96,4.02
directly into your head maybe it's,2246.76,4.38
possible anyways whatever you want to do,2248.98,3.78
whatever experience you want to have,2251.14,3.959
should hypothetically be possible with,2252.76,5.04
fdvr,2255.099,4.74
um a part of gaming is that it can be,2257.8,4.38
social right game with friends whether,2259.839,4.981
you're competing online with friends uh,2262.18,4.38
or you got a guild or a clan that you've,2264.82,2.58
built,2266.56,2.82
um you can also uh do parallel play in,2267.4,4.199
person so this is what um I do with my,2269.38,3.959
wife we Heckle each other,2271.599,3.24
um while she's playing Assassin's Creed,2273.339,2.76
I'll be like hey did you know that,2274.839,2.821
you're on fire and she's like yes Dave I,2276.099,3.561
know that I'm on fire uh you know,2277.66,4.56
parallel play is a great thing to do,2279.66,4.3
with friends you can sit around you know,2282.22,3.18
I used to do this back in my college,2283.96,3.42
days with my buddies drinking a couple,2285.4,3.959
beers playing Call of Duty Trolling each,2287.38,4.68
other it can be a really great thing and,2289.359,4.26
I'm glad to see that the younger,2292.06,4.2
Generations do this still my nephew and,2293.619,3.96
all of his friends they play Minecraft,2296.26,3.66
together and other things,2297.579,4.081
um there are what I will say is there,2299.92,4.26
are some potential downsides screen time,2301.66,4.98
can be detrimental to your health but if,2304.18,3.72
you balance it with some of the other,2306.64,3.66
things like in the therapeutic Lifestyle,2307.9,4.02
Changes make sure that you go outside,2310.3,3.36
touch grass as kids are saying these,2311.92,3.659
days,2313.66,3.48
um it can also be addictive and,2315.579,4.381
isolation as possible I do suspect that,2317.14,6.0
we will see legislation coming that kind,2319.96,5.1
of at least provides warnings for how,2323.14,4.14
addictive things are there's a book that,2325.06,4.38
I refer to often called liquid rain,2327.28,4.86
where they talk about how uh full dive,2329.44,4.74
VR could actually be programmatically,2332.14,3.6
addictive like where it could just,2334.18,3.899
stimulate your dopamine and so you feel,2335.74,3.72
like you're having more fun than you,2338.079,3.181
actually are and then when you're not in,2339.46,3.36
the full dive VR you could you could,2341.26,3.66
like physically crave it and get sick if,2342.82,3.9
you don't have it so we do need to be,2344.92,4.08
careful with um creating gaming as a,2346.72,3.98
central lifestyle,2349.0,5.82
and another thing is that a gaming world,2350.7,5.98
is not necessarily the real world and,2354.82,3.48
most people's brains will keep track of,2356.68,4.2
that difference and so it might not be,2358.3,4.38
good for self-actualization for instance,2360.88,4.26
if you're if you're a gamer you might,2362.68,4.14
not uh get the sense that you're,2365.14,3.6
reaching your full potential that being,2366.82,4.14
said if you're a competitive gamer uh,2368.74,3.66
maybe that is the way that you reach,2370.96,3.119
your full potential,2372.4,4.5
making and fixing things we humans,2374.079,5.161
evolved to use our hands that is why we,2376.9,4.02
have so much dexterity in our hands we,2379.24,5.099
are the tool users and so one of my best,2380.92,4.919
friends from back in the day is working,2384.339,3.421
on rebuilding a thistle so this is a,2385.839,4.321
thistle it's a small racing boat,2387.76,4.8
we would be doing this all day every day,2390.16,5.88
if we had Ubi and no need to uh work for,2392.56,4.799
money,2396.04,3.18
um because the the shop where he's,2397.359,4.321
rebuilding his there's two other ones,2399.22,3.96
that are just waiting for someone to,2401.68,3.3
come and fix and if I had the time,2403.18,4.14
that's what I'd be doing why because,2404.98,4.02
it's something that my friend does and,2407.32,3.84
you can then race it and do competitive,2409.0,4.14
stuff but there's also skill building,2411.16,4.439
right the sense of Mastery that you get,2413.14,4.199
from building something from fixing it,2415.599,3.661
and then having that thing that you can,2417.339,4.561
show off and use this is a really great,2419.26,4.74
way to get a sense of Mastery there's,2421.9,3.36
plenty of other things that people do,2424.0,3.78
lots of guys like rebuild Mustangs or,2425.26,6.48
Corvettes fixing up old houses and other,2427.78,7.44
things so reusing refurbishing fixing,2431.74,6.24
building things these are really great,2435.22,5.34
ways that also tap into really Primal,2437.98,4.44
needs for humans,2440.56,3.18
some of the things that are really,2442.42,3.54
popular today particularly with young,2443.74,5.04
people forging leather working sewing,2445.96,5.22
other carpentry all of these things,2448.78,5.579
revolve around tool use and so whatever,2451.18,5.7
hobby you pick up if it uses tools,2454.359,5.041
chances are there's a lot of skills,2456.88,4.199
involved which can also lead to that,2459.4,4.32
sense of Mastery cooking I mentioned,2461.079,4.561
this earlier cooking is one of the,2463.72,3.54
oldest trades one of the oldest,2465.64,3.6
professions out there and everyone needs,2467.26,3.48
to eat plus cooking is a good social,2469.24,4.32
activity my wife and I cook together,2470.74,4.74
pretty much every day or at least we,2473.56,4.74
take turns some people compulsively cook,2475.48,4.379
and feed other people my sister-in-law,2478.3,2.94
is like that she loves cooking for,2479.859,4.021
people point being is that there is,2481.24,4.339
there are a lot of hobbies out there,2483.88,4.68
that center around making or fixing,2485.579,4.301
things,2488.56,4.5
outdoor stuff hiking climbing canoeing,2489.88,5.82
boating whatever there's all kinds of,2493.06,6.96
stuff that we could stand to do more of,2495.7,6.419
um if you uh if you had more free time,2500.02,3.54
because you didn't have to work because,2502.119,3.661
you didn't have to be at a desk or at an,2503.56,5.4
office or at the store or whatever,2505.78,4.92
um you know and it's not just fishing,2508.96,3.18
obviously that's the prototypical,2510.7,3.419
example where you know you know a guy,2512.14,3.959
gets to retirement age and he decides,2514.119,3.541
he's going to go fishing every day not,2516.099,3.48
everyone wants to do that I get it,2517.66,4.14
um you could do competitive fishing,2519.579,4.561
um but there's also other uh kinds of,2521.8,4.02
competitive outdoor stuff like,2524.14,3.42
cross-country challenges I ran Tough,2525.82,4.019
Mudder almost 10 years ago and I was,2527.56,5.279
hungover as heck when I ran it I was not,2529.839,4.681
hungover by the end of it I burned all,2532.839,4.921
that all that uh all that toxins off,2534.52,5.52
um skiing kayaking all kinds of really,2537.76,3.54
challenging stuff that you can do,2540.04,3.24
outside a lot of my friends picked up,2541.3,3.72
mountain biking which you could do,2543.28,4.02
practically anywhere,2545.02,5.339
um uh during the pandemic uh so one,2547.3,4.38
thing that I realized when I was making,2550.359,3.541
this video is that if if we got Ubi,2551.68,3.6
tomorrow,2553.9,2.58
um I would probably go hike the,2555.28,3.9
Appalachian Trail I love being outside I,2556.48,4.379
love being in the mountains and that is,2559.18,2.939
something that I want to do but right,2560.859,3.541
now my brain is like well I'm still,2562.119,4.141
gonna make YouTube I still got to do AI,2564.4,3.36
stuff I still have meetings with my,2566.26,3.42
patreon supporters so doing the,2567.76,3.66
Appalachian Trail is not really an,2569.68,3.419
option for me right now unless I were to,2571.42,3.659
take like three months off which maybe I,2573.099,5.76
should anyways Fitness Fitness is the,2575.079,5.821
most familiar model that a lot of people,2578.859,4.74
use to get Mastery whether it's yoga or,2580.9,6.419
Pilates or running or cycling martial,2583.599,6.541
arts uh strength training these are all,2587.319,4.141
things that people,2590.14,4.02
um many many people do and and it can be,2591.46,5.22
a little cultish for some people there's,2594.16,4.439
also Fitness based competitions like,2596.68,4.32
Iron Man American Ninja that sort of,2598.599,3.181
stuff,2601.0,3.14
that being said there are many many many,2601.78,4.74
additional benefits,2604.14,4.479
um other than just you know it's,2606.52,5.339
something to do uh better Fitness it,2608.619,5.521
leads to reduced pain increased Health,2611.859,4.921
uh cognitive benefits emotional benefits,2614.14,4.5
plus you get to show off your body right,2616.78,3.839
there's lots of people that love being,2618.64,4.5
fit just for the sake of feeling sexy,2620.619,5.041
right there are so many people that,2623.14,4.679
um that I'm that I knew and have met and,2625.66,5.52
and where they decided to get fit,2627.819,5.04
um you know started climbing started,2631.18,4.26
going to the gym and the the the,2632.859,4.98
transformation that they felt as they,2635.44,4.44
felt better about themselves about their,2637.839,4.081
body the sense of accomplishment that,2639.88,4.08
they get from that is incredible,2641.92,3.659
and still not for everyone so I want to,2643.96,4.08
say like okay even if you have all the,2645.579,3.721
options in the world and you decide that,2648.04,4.44
exercise isn't for you that's fine or or,2649.3,5.519
fitness exercises for everyone Fitness,2652.48,5.52
might not be for you meetups so I am a,2654.819,5.401
huge fan of meetup.com I actually met my,2658.0,4.38
now wife at a Meetup,2660.22,3.899
um we're both writers,2662.38,3.9
um so the the kinds of tools that are,2664.119,3.901
out there so meetup.com is there,2666.28,4.44
specifically for finding people with the,2668.02,5.46
same interests challenges or whatever,2670.72,7.5
right uh so meetup.com it's free to join,2673.48,6.54
um I tell people about it all the time I,2678.22,3.18
think more people should be on Meetup,2680.02,2.88
whether,2681.4,3.199
um you know you have a special interest,2682.9,3.959
or if you've got something that you're,2684.599,3.941
coping with there's there's uh support,2686.859,3.061
groups,2688.54,4.26
um on Meetup I host a local AI Meetup,2689.92,6.179
I'm actually going to that later today,2692.8,5.46
um let's see there's intellectual kinds,2696.099,4.321
of things there's chess clubs there's,2698.26,5.22
spirituality uh clubs Arts crafts,2700.42,5.52
photography all kinds of stuff,2703.48,4.859
whatever your interest is especially if,2705.94,4.919
you live in a city you can find other,2708.339,4.76
people that have that same interest,2710.859,5.46
which is a really great way,2713.099,5.441
um to get those that's that social,2716.319,4.201
connection but then also some of these,2718.54,4.62
things can lead to senses of Mastery for,2720.52,3.9
instance,2723.16,5.52
all right so this is life under Ubi uh I,2724.42,6.0
hope that you got a lot out of this,2728.68,3.179
um and like I said making this video,2730.42,3.899
actually I kind of clarified a lot for,2731.859,4.681
myself and it makes me personally a lot,2734.319,5.52
more excited for the future and I'm,2736.54,5.579
personally this was probably the most,2739.839,5.101
fun that I've had making a video uh yet,2742.119,6.321
so anyways cheers,2744.94,3.5