Invest Now and Let The Play Develop
I grew up in Canada, eh. There’s not much to do, you have to entertain yourselves with humor, alcohol or if you could afford pants and skates, hockey. As a result, many people were making jokes while drunk inside hockey rinks. For those a bit more academic, it still wasn’t uncommon to hear an analogy that relates to hockey in some shape.
“Keep your head up” = Be careful out there
“You can’t score if you don’t shoot” = You have to take action and make an effort if you want to achieve anything. Wayne Gretzky had a famous rendition of this line.
“Keep your stick on the ice” = Be prepared
“On the Power Play”= Use your advantages or strengths strategically to maximize your success.
Of course there are many I can pick apart and apply–but there’s one saying that is increasingly relevant with respect to employment and the larger economy in the upcoming future.
One of them that I think relates most closely to my blog here is “Pass where the player is going to be” or “Skate where the puck is going to be”
So for this article I wanted to suggest a couple of “plays” that we can pass or skate into now for our goals in life, eh. At least this is how I see matters shaping up.
Essentially for the “play” to move smoothly and efficiently in your favor, you must take action now for it to succeed in the future. You can hear elements of this when I discuss stock picks that are great long-term holds, trying to predict the next major global hegemony, talking about country-specific economic situations and of course through Open Door Consultancy where I offer advice on where someone should relocate to avoid issues like taxation, regulations and food shortages: there’s no sense telling you what the nightly news tells you–you need to know what WILL come to be.
List of Ideas, each of which deserves it’s own article
- The fertility crisis is one of the biggest problems we currently face. I’ve covered one article here on the culture war against women primarily, but there’s more on the economic catastrophe, biological attacks against fertility and psychological issues of NOT having children.
- Food and Fuel shortages are very real and a terrifying reality that is lurking. MOST of the world does not produce its own food (at least to meet its own demands) and certainly not its own fuel. I believe Africa is in a very precarious position
- Gold’s role in global commerce and financial backing of the new financial system
- Debt–everything revolving around serving these interest payments.
The big one that we hear about all of the time.
5. Artificial Intelligence
In just five months, employers have attributed more layoffs to AI than they did in all of last year. The report shows 87,714 announced job cuts tied to AI through May, compared to 54,836 throughout 2025. Workers’ concerns about AI are widespread
My guess is that the AI hype is a few things happening at once.
- This is a cover to lay people off since corporations simply don’t have the books to support their aggressive expansion plans and financings. It’s easy to say that it’s due to the emergence of AI to fire somebody. Something that looks like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gLunObiTHk - The 2nd idea relates to something far more grand occurring. I believe that for so many tech corporations to assume such significant losses, they have to be thinking they’ll receive an ROI on the back end. Similar to the migrant crisis, where there’s a return that comes later, I believe that return may be the consolidation of a significant amount of assets around the globe following major conflicts. AI is not being built to get the best ingredients for the tastiest pizza–it’s being generated to be the best strategist in how to completely dismantle Iran, orchestrate the best weapons, perfect supply chains, etc. (my guess). Either way, I believe this is a major trend ahead of us that again extends beyond using chatbots.
- This video. AI because it simply makes more sense. If I couldn’t leverage my own projects like Soapbox without AI I would be easily 150,000 USD spent, instead it may have been 44 dollars? It simply makes more sense for intellectual pursuits that are black and white.
And AI is 10x worse today than it will be in 3 years; today it’s HR…tomorrow it’s HR, sales, accounting, legal, marketing, customer service etc.
Remainder of List (FIVE more BIG ones)
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Closing
There are about 11 trends I see that are huge–and may pose significant opportunities if we’re patient enough and can survive the next big crashes ahead. Gold, Fertility crisis, Sovereign debt bubbles, famine and the gravity of AI reshaping the global economy are all key changes that we’re witnessing (but not the only ones).
As for AI, at our current rate of development, we’re looking at an anywhere to a moderate to extreme displacement or perhaps erasure entirely of jobs not because the machine learning algorithm can be totally better than humans; but for the reason that it’s simply more economical to use AI/machine learning than it will be to hirer humans. Why is this? Because the cost of living MUST increase to accommodate the expansion of credit because of reason number 4 listed, global debt. There hits a point where it simply doesn’t make sense to perpetually continue to pay humans wages higher and higher with no additional output.
For anyone who’s been in a McDonalds or Wal-Mart in the last 10 years, noticing the kiosks, perhaps this won’t be a surprising read for you. However, it still means that we’re looking at an enormous displacement of the entire job market that the majority of citizens cannot possibly be anticipating. I’ll cover another article with ideas of mine on how to compensate for these inevitable losses.
In the interim, enjoy your hockey games, or whichever sport, but don’t forget that with major change comes major opportunity.
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