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Science [music] is now in agreement. Artificial intelligence will make your job obsolete. At least, as you know it today. Because AI researchers expect that we could see the first superintelligence as early as 2030. This means that in a few years, AI will possess the capabilities to solve any cognitive task better and, above all, faster than even the smartest human could. And what that means for our future economic system is hard to imagine today. So it's not far-fetched when I say, if you still want to learn the skills that will make you a winner of the AI revolution, the window of opportunity for that is closing rapidly, and very rapidly at that. But that was still the good news. The bad news is, 99% of all people are currently learning the completely wrong things. They research a few nice ChatGPT tricks and try to race against AI, but that at best only postpones the inevitable by a few months. What is instead worthwhile to learn right now, and which almost boring AI skill you need to acquire to profit from the gigantic wealth transfer of the coming years, I will reveal to you now. This is the second part of my docu-series about the new economic system of the AI Era and, if you will, your personal survival guide for the greatest financial upheaval in human history. If you haven't seen the first part yet, you'll find the link in the description, but you can also simply start directly with this video and watch the first part later. But one very important thing beforehand: when I speak of this gigantic wealth transfer, I don't say it because it sounds good on YouTube, but because I am experiencing it myself right now. This is an award from my payment provider for having earned 5 million Euros in the last few years. But the largest part of these earnings actually only came about recently, not long ago. Specifically, because I simply stopped competing with AI and started using an almost boring AI skill, which I will share with you shortly. But before I reveal this skill to you, we need to zoom out very briefly. Imagine for a moment you are a master craftsman in the early 19th century. You spent decades perfecting your skills. You are respected, earn good money, and your world is in order. But one day, the smell of coal drifts through your city. A massive brick building is erected, and from within, a deafening noise of stamping cast iron and hissing steam roars. What you see is the world's first steam-powered factory. Inside stand massive iron behemoths that produce more in a single afternoon than you can in a whole month. Panic rises within you, and you do exactly what you've been told your whole life. You try to solve the problem with hard work. You think a cold machine made of iron can never replace my craftsmanship. So you take up the fight. You skip your breaks, you work deep into the night until your eyes burn and your joints ache. But it's a fight you've already lost. Because compared to you, the machine needs no sleep. It doesn't get burnout, and it doesn't unionize, and so the prices for your labor plummet, and even though you practically work yourself to death, you are ruined. At the exact same time, however, a man stands in this factory, watching the stamping machines. Let's call him the industrialist. This guy is no skilled craftsman. He has two left hands and not the faintest idea how your product is actually made. But he has grasped something that cost you your head. He didn't even try to compete with the machine. Instead, he did everything he could to own as many of these machines as possible. He took the tool, put unskilled workers in front of them, and built a system that runs day and night, completely independent of his own abilities. The result of the industrial revolution was brutally simple. The expert who tried to be a better and faster tool himself was completely replaced by the tool. The apparent layman, however, who built a system in which the tools worked for him, suddenly owned the world. But this system had a huge drawback back then, because to win this game, you needed a fortune. You had to buy the land, build factories, cast tons of iron, and pay hundreds of workers. Building such a factory system was extremely expensive and risky. Therefore, this leverage remained exclusive to an elite minority for over 200 years. The rest of the world was condemned to remain a cog in someone else's system, until the day this rule suddenly dissolved into thin air almost 200 years later. Imagine it's the year 2004. You're sitting at 3 AM in the dim light of your CRT monitor. Your eyes burn from reading code, but you're proud. You've spent months drilling HTML, CSS, and Photoshop into your brain. You are now a sought-after web designer. With these new skills, you build custom online shops for local retailers. A single custom shop brings a hefty €20,000 to your account. You can work from anywhere, earn good money, and feel like the undisputed winner of this new digital ERA. But you're mistaken, because you've fallen into a typical trap. You believe you are the new ruler of this system, but if we look back at Act 1, you are in reality just the old master craftsman who this time went into the factory to stand by the steam engine himself. Yes, the internet is a powerful tool, and yes, because you work with this new technology, your output has become more valuable. You earn more than a regular employee, but at the end of the day, you are still selling your own limited time to manually operate the digital levers. You work with the machine instead of having it work for you. So, while you're cobbling together new shops night after night, a German expatriate named Tobias Lütke is sitting in cold Canada. Lütke actually just wants to build a small online shop for snowboards, but he thinks differently. He looks at how web designers like you work and immediately recognizes the design flaw. He understands the most important lesson of this era. Those who only use the internet remain glorified factory workers. To be among the true winners, you must own the factory itself. Because the internet is not just a tool, it is the most powerful copying machine in human history. So Lütke refuses to play the web designer game. He doesn't found an agency. He doesn't sell custom handmade work. Instead, he builds a system once. He programs a platform on which retailers can easily build their shops themselves with a simple click. He calls the whole thing Shopify, and precisely here he finally negates the physical laws of work. If you as a web designer take on one more client, it costs you sweat, stress, and life time again. If the millionth retailer signs up at Shopify, it costs Tobias Lütke absolutely nothing. No new materials, no new employees, just a fraction of a cent for server capacity. His code copies itself at marginal costs of zero. This means the system scales infinitely and generates millions while Lütke might be standing on a snowboard. He programmed the machine to work for him. The web designer remains, in the end, the diligent worker at the keyboard. The architect, however, who built the system, suddenly owned the internet. But this internet revolution also had a huge drawback. Let's call it the bottleneck of creation. Operating a digital machine had become almost free thanks to Tobias Lütke and the internet, but building this digital factory was not. Yes, it's true. To build an empire in the internet era, you no longer need 10,000 laborers. I mean, the best example is Instagram. When the app was sold for a billion dollars, the entire company had only 13 employees. Imagine that. That had never happened before. A tiny team had suddenly created a billion-dollar value. But precisely here lay the next invisible wall, because these 13 people were not ordinary employees. They were absolute exceptional developers. To build a truly scalable system, whether it was a groundbreaking software platform or a lucrative business for digital products, you needed either a team, a lot of experience, or just an unbelievable amount of time and energy. The internet, for the first time in history, made it possible for individuals or small teams to build huge businesses. Suddenly, there were people who earned millions online without factories, without millions in funding, and without a large team. I am one of them, for example. But all those who succeeded usually had one thing that is rather rare. Either they had exceptional skills, or they invested a brutal amount of time and were very persistent, or they had capital in the background, which simply made everything [music] easier. So, in a way, the internet didn't change the game. It just made the entry ticket cheaper. Distribution became almost free, but creation remained expensive and time-consuming in many cases. You could theoretically reach the whole world, but you still had to build everything yourself, write everything yourself, sell everything yourself, and optimize everything yourself. Or you had to pay people who could do exactly that. And that's precisely why most people didn't suddenly become rich despite the internet. They now had a powerful tool, but they were still the ones who had to operate it. The bottleneck was no longer reach, the bottleneck was you yourself, until the rules of the game changed for the third time, right now, at this very moment. Until recently, you were considered crazy in Silicon Valley if you showed up as a loner without a team. Investors laughed at you. But then Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and creator of ChatGPT, stood before the world press and publicly made a bet that shook the foundation of the world economy. He predicted that we will see the first one-person billion-dollar company in history in the near future. Because what if building a scalable system, as we've been discussing all along, no longer costs millions in venture capital, but only €20 a month for an AI subscription? If you overlay the industrial revolution and the internet revolution, you might see the pattern yourself. A pattern that proves why Sam Altman's bet on the first one-person billion-dollar company is not a crazy fantasy, but an inevitable reality. In absolutely every gigantic upheaval in history, the world has divided into exactly three groups. On one side are the obvious losers. They try to fight against the new technology. This is the proud master craftsman who wants to beat the iron machines with even more sweat and even less sleep. They desperately cling to the old world and are mercilessly crushed by innovation. Then there is the average. The average decides to work with the technology. This is the web designer who learns Photoshop and HTML at 3 AM. The average feels incredibly modern and progressive. They firmly believe they belong to the winners. But in reality, they have fallen for a brilliant illusion. They have merely exchanged their old hamster wheel for a modern, fancier one. They use the new tool only to be able to work even more efficiently themselves. But the true winners play a completely different game. They don't work against the technology, and they don't work with it. They position themselves so that the technology works for them. This means they build the system, they own the factory. And this is precisely where we need to talk about AI, because AI is fundamentally different from anything we've seen before. The industrial revolution replaced our hands. The internet replaced location, but AI, for the very first time, replaces the mind. Knowledge, analysis, creativity. And perhaps you're thinking right now, AI has no real soul. An AI can never create true human creativity like I can. And you know what? Maybe you're right, but that's exactly what the weavers in the 19th century said. They said an iron machine can never weave as fine a fabric as I can with my own hands. And that was even true, but the world didn't care at all because the machine produced 100 times as much in a day. The sheer, tireless mass of solid output simply erased romantic handwork. And that's precisely why millions of people are currently falling into the biggest trap of our time. Just look around. Everyone out there is desperately trying to write better prompts. They're learning how to get ChatGPT to write a better script or Midjourney to generate a cool image. They feel like the absolute rulers of the new world. But if you've understood Act 1 and 2, you know now that they are in reality just the new workers on the assembly line. Most people see AI as a pure productivity enhancement tool, but productivity is a trap through and through. Those who work twice as fast often end up with twice as much work. As soon as these AI experts stop typing, their cash flow stops flowing. So they are still the bottleneck of their own income. To truly win this game, you can't just be someone who operates the tool. You have to own the factory. And because AI replaces the mind, you no longer need millions in startup capital for this factory today. You also don't need to learn how to write even better prompts. You need to acquire the invisible skill that lies behind every single one of the new AI millionaires. Not operating tools, but creating automatable systems. You are no longer the one who works. You become the one who creates something that works for you. So you build AI-powered digital assets that are created once and then multiply every day and earn money for you. Yes, this sounds abstract, but in practice, it's almost frighteningly simple, because suddenly it's no longer about completing individual tasks, but about building a process that produces results. You no longer think in to-do lists, you think in systems. You are no longer the guy who tells ChatGPT, write me a script. You are the one who designs the entire workflow behind it. Your ability consists of breaking down your business into individual parts and hiring a specialized AI agent for each task. Imagine you're building a digital market analysis assistant here that scans the internet 24/7 for the latest trends. This agent automatically hands over its data and insights to your digital copywriter. The copywriter writes the script and sends it to a digital salesperson who markets the product. They work together, they correct each other, completely without breaks. And suddenly something crucial happens. You no longer have an income that depends on your time. You have a system that generates output. Regardless of whether you are working or not. Your only task, you swing the conductor's baton. You draw the blueprint once, press start, and let the digital employees run. You are no longer the worker on the assembly line, you are the one who owns the assembly line. And precisely this one skill, building such systems, is the actual leverage of this new era. Because for the first time in history, you can build such digital assets quickly, without a team, without a million-dollar budget, and without years of specialization. You are no longer the worker on the assembly line, you are the architect of the facility, and precisely this one skill, conducting AI systems, builds the first truly scalable one-person business in history that runs completely without you. This is the factory ownership of our new era. And because I realize that the concept of system architecture can initially seem very abstract, I want to help you with exactly that. I have written an exact 30-day roadmap that shows you step by step how to build such an automated online income from scratch. This roadmap normally costs €10. But as a thank you for watching this docu-series this far and showing that you are really serious, I am giving it to you. So you get it completely for free. You'll find the link at the very top of the video description. And the best proof that all of this works is myself, because I'm actually not that good. I'm okay at creating content, I'm a pretty good copywriter, and I have a reasonable idea of how advertising works. But I am miles away from being an absolute expert in it. But not despite that, but because I haven't focused 100% on any single skill, I now earn €100 to €150,000 per month with my business. I'm not the best at anything, but I understand enough of everything to outsource complex tasks to AI or selectively to freelancers. And I'm not an isolated case. Look at Andrej, for example. He had only 300 followers on Instagram when he started. No reach, no team, no startup capital, and yet he earned over €5,000 on his very first attempt. Why? Because he didn't try to become the best copywriter, the best designer, or the best salesperson, but because he focused on building the right system where all of that becomes irrelevant. Or also Berry. She also started with just under 1,000 followers on Instagram. But in the first month, she made €6,000 profit. Today, she makes five-figure profits completely on autopilot, every month. She's not a top copywriter, not a marketing expert, not a tech fanatic. She just understood once how to build the digital factory, and now she's no longer on the assembly line, but she owns the factory. But history teaches us something else. The window of opportunity to build such a factory was very small in every upheaval. In the first few years of such a revolution, the really big fortunes are made. Those who build the system during this time win. Those who wait find the spots occupied and will inevitably become a cog in someone else's system again. So, at the latest, the question is no longer whether you need to build an automated system. The question is only which one? And here's the brutal truth. 90% of the business models that are currently being sold by self-proclaimed gurus as lucrative AI hustles are an absolute trap, because they make you work with AI instead of letting AI work for you. So, which online business models for beginners are actually suitable for building such an automated one-person factory and which hyped models should you absolutely stay away from immediately? That's exactly what the third part of this docu-series is about. It's best to watch the video right now. Enjoy. 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