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I read something the other day that stopped me cold. You have 3 minutes to escape the underclass before AI takes your job. I don't think you'll be doomed by the time this video ends. However, if you don't change in the next 3 years, you should be really worried. We don't have decades before AI actually reshapes the entire economy so violently that most people become irrelevant by default.
Now, this video isn't for people hoping things will go back to normal, because it won't. We are heading into a future where labor doesn't matter, where effort does not earn you security. And if you don't own anything in that system, you will not just be underpaid; you'll be powerless. But I do believe that there is a way out, and we've researched it for you today.
In this video, we're going to show you how to escape the system before it decides your value for you by having an actual stake. But you have to move.
Now, we are on a path into a post-labor economy where most people won't be needed and a small group of people will be powered by AI and machines. It's the logical endgame of trends we've seen building for more than a century. And if you don't pay attention to it, the billionaires will own you and us all.
And you can see here, the billionaires are already putting their capital into this exact play. They just don't want to tell you about it. They want to say, "Not all jobs will be taken," while they put billions in and lay us off left and right. So, you quite simply need to have a real stake in whatever comes next.
It's why all my richest friends literally cannot sleep right now. You know, they're calling me up, names, you know, on the internet, talking about the opportunity at their fingertips and how they need to seize it. And if they don't understand AI, even they, who are worth millions, are going to be out of money.
And so, let's talk about this in a few really important ways. First, I want to talk about compute, which is the fuel behind the AI explosion. So, a lot of people are thinking, "Why does it suddenly feel like AI everywhere? Like, where has this come from?" And they're right. In short, it's because the computing power behind it has grown like crazy in recent years. This is really important.
Since deep learning was created in 2010, training computation has doubled every 6 months. From 2012 to 2018, OpenAI founded that the compute used in the largest training programs grew by 300,000 times, basically doubling every 3.4 months. So, to put that in perspective, Google's Gemini class systems now uses around 100 million times more compute than Alex Net did a decade ago. That's like going from a bicycle to a rocket ship in 10 years.
And like, why do you care about that? What does that mean? Well, more compute doesn't guarantee smarter AI, but it is the raw fuel that made the next breakthroughs possible. In fact, data shows models today can hit, look at this, 60% performance on key tasks, even when they're 100x smaller and cheaper than those in 2022. And on hard tests like math and coding, AI has gone from a random guess to equal or better than top human experts in the world in under 10 years. It is starting to outperform you and me.
>> I think we're trending toward to having something that's smarter than any human, smarter than the smartest human, by maybe next year or something. I mean, a couple years.
What I want you to know is this isn't new. This basic arc has been clear since the 19th century. Many think that we could eliminate 73 million US jobs by 2030. Technology is replacing more and more humans, and the speed of that replacement, it's just happening faster. So, you put that all together, and it's not hard to see where this is headed.
40% of people lose their jobs, and people like you then are not actually economically necessary as producers. We're all optional. Since the early 2010s, you've watched modern AI go from like a cute demo to, "Oh, that could do parts of my job." Goldman has a widely cited 2023 report that's estimating up to 300 million full-time jobs globally could be affected.
And it's because you now have these language models that can draft, code, analyze, and plan, and vision models that classify, inspect, and generate automation and robots creeping into more physical work every year. And I mean, when you think about it, like, can you do all of that? All the while, individually, each system still looks narrow or flawed enough for people not to realize that what matters is together they form a stack that is good enough to replace huge swaths of cognitive work.
And so, if you thought you were safe, uh, what's happening is the capital is actually deploying machines instead of hiring you. And so, we're helping to design the next generation of systems even faster, which is really tough truth.
The post-labor economy is where machines perform most important jobs better and cheaper than humans. So then, your work becomes optional. So then, we have a post-consumer market because fewer people have jobs. So, fewer people have money to spend, and the economy starts to shift and focus less on consumers. So, the system by then just actually doesn't need you to function at all. It doesn't need you to buy things or build things.
You might still have a job, but only if it's convenient for the people in charge, not because the economy relies on you like it used to. And I think about this with writers right now. For instance, historically at my company, they've hired 10 or so writers at any given time or creators. Increasingly, I think there will be fewer of them, and I'll hire more AI researchers with taste than just straight-up writers. And this will save this company millions of dollars.
This post-consumer market: if fewer people have jobs, fewer people have money to spend. And when millions of people stop spending like they used to, the economy starts to shift. Then you can really already see this happening.
In 2024, AI data centers used about 4% of all electricity in the US. By 2028, that number is supposed to be around 6.7 to 12%. So, as AI continues to grow, these data centers are taking up more and more of the supply, and you are helping pay for it.
And here's what that looks like for you. In 2025, US household electricity prices rose over 5%. And in areas near big data centers, this is out of control. Power costs are up as much as 267% compared to 5 years ago. Tech companies are spending massive amounts on power to feed AI. The cost of expanding the grid actually gets passed down to us through higher rates. When your electric bill jumps, as part of that, it's because the system is being re-engineered to actually power machines, not homes. So, the economy is starting to serve machines first.
And here's where it gets even more uncomfortable. If most people no longer work and they no longer spend, the system starts to forget about them entirely. This leads to a new default setting for the world we're walking into: a default future where there's a permanent underclass.
If most people are no longer needed to work or spend, what happens? Huge chunk of humanity becomes economically irrelevant. The machines will actually be owned by a small group who also controls the data and the energy and the systems. Which should bring us to the question of like, who actually runs the world, right?
Power won't come from money alone anymore. It'll come from controlling the infrastructure. So, that's the data centers, that's chips, that's energy, that's algorithms. And this isn't about capitalism versus socialism anymore. It's about a new alliance between tech companies and governments with a few of the powerful guys running the machine for everybody else.
>> The reason it's bad is because of the way societyy's organized. Musk will get richer, and a lot of people get unemployed, and Musk won't care. I'm using Musk as a sort of stand-in.
And I think like, forget the AI takeover. This is actually worse because people worry about AI becoming self-aware and taking over. I don't think that's the threat right now. The real risk is that human elites use AI to lock in their power. They'll use it to monitor you, to manage you, to keep you compliant, and they'll have less reason to build open, empowering tech because it benefits them if you stay weak and distracted.
So, this ruling class will actually still be pretty human, but they're driven by status and self-interest. But now, they'll be supercharged by machines. And eventually, they may even evolve beyond what we consider human. But you and I, you probably won't get an invite to that future because when the real game moves away from your life, everything changes.
You know, as this matures, our daily experience is going to change. Computation and industry are going to move into extreme environments: deep sea, polar, orbit, the moon, beyond. There's going to be massive energy and resource projects ramped up like advanced nuclear, orbital solar, resource extraction that we never actually see. So, where is value generated and where you physically live? That starts to decouple.
At that point, most of humanity, including you and I, unless we do something really unusual, looks like managed legacy systems. So, we're kind of like fed, entertained, pacified to the extent that it's convenient or possible. And we're increasingly disconnected from the frontier where power and upside is created.
But like, this is not a a doomsday video. I mean, there's lots of men like Elon Musk who are talking about what might be happening. I'm not a channel that just tells you everything that's wrong and then nothing to do to fix it. I know you're waiting for the, "Well, what do you have to do?"
Well, you still have a handful of personal levers that can materially change your position in the new world. Now, we have to switch to asset ownership, to equitying businesses, land, infrastructure, scarce IP. That is your claim ticket on the future.
Okay, but then I start thinking, what if you don't own enough yet? Well, do you have any followers on social? If you already have any type of audience and you don't have a newsletter, I think you're playing a poor person game.
One of my friends is the most famous plus-sized supermodel. Her name is Ashley Graham. And she asked me what one thing she was not doing in her business to make more money. I'm like, "Girl, you need to start a newsletter." So, she made one. Now, thousands of people follow her in her email, and she's launching not one but three businesses off that newsletter asset because it is an asset.
So, this isn't about posting more. It's about ownership, like real long-term distribution that you control. So, I'm going to give you my little secret. It's called Beehive. So, you spin up a newsletter in minutes. You customize it. They help you grow it, and you get people to pay you immediately for ads 'cause they have an ad network just like YouTube does.
In fact, I am such a fan, I'm not just a user, that I invested money. It's built for creators like you and me who want speed and scale. I love the monetization in the back end with like ads, paid subs, digital products. They even take care of any sales and reporting so you can just stay focused on what you actually like doing: creating.
So, if you're thinking, "Okay, how do I do this?" I'm going to give you a little, a little discount here. You start here. You go to beehive.com/cody. It's actually spelled funny. It's B-E-H-I-V. You know, tech guys. And use code Cody30 to get 30% off your first three months. I'm obsessed on this idea that, like, what if we can own assets online?
All right, I want to get back to building wealth you can actually own, but I think that one's a really good tip. And we got to ask, how much of my effort this year becomes something I own, not just something I rent by the hour?
This is also why I'm personally obsessed with buying boring businesses because these businesses are located in your neighborhood and will be harder for AI to do that kind of work. It's also why I'm hosting my MSM live event, and you should be there. If you do not already own a profitable business, you can learn how.
I will teach you virtual online because what we're going to need to do, we're going to need to actually convert volatile opportunities using long-duration stakes, using whatever arbitrage you have. What does that mean? Like media, niche skills, entrepreneurship, dealm to buy assets that will still matter when labor doesn't.
So, we got to spend less on our lifestyle, more converting spikes of income into boring ownership. And I want you to right now increase the amount of money that you invest into assets because income is shifting from work to ownership.
So, since the 1960s, we've seen the labor share of capital has gone down, which means like rich people own more. People who work own less. Rich people make more money on the things they own than they do the work they do.
So, we need to embed ourselves into durable networks, not just personal brands. So, those are like firms and tight coalitions that control assets and know how to operate them. That's going to matter a lot more than being a lone wolf. I actually think being a soloreneur in this world is going to be incredibly dangerous, and you'll be super replaceable.
So, in a world of managed underclasses, who you are tied to matters as much as what you own. So, in a company like Contrarian Thinking, where you're teaching people how to use AI, how to become superhumans, and how to get access to these investments, we're going to have very highly skilled workers who will have a bunch of agents that they run, and I will pay for the AI credit. And these are what employees are going to become.
They're going to be in companies where you're going to want to get into companies where they're actively teaching you how to use AI and helping you pay for it because it's going to get more expensive. Like just this last weekend, I hosted a hackathon for all of my employees. I want you to ask your boss if you can host one. Ask them, "Can I get a subscription to AI? Can I start using it in my job right now? Can it become part of the system?"
I want you to adjust your expectations. You're not trying to build some utopia. You're trying to move from purely managed population towards minor equity holder in the post-human economy.
Okay. So, let's give you the actual formula to increase your skill set. Right now, I want you to increase your skill set with AI. Then you're going to increase your earnings. Then you're going to increase your investment in assets. And when you do that, and then you get into a business that will survive and thrive post-AI, you will have something completely different.
Which is, if we zoom out, automation and AI won't be just a trend. They'll be this visible edge of a deeper transition away from labor. So, at this point, this is where a lot of people say, "Well, the government will save us." And the truth is, no, they won't.
The billionaire class will become so powerful that they can move anywhere and do anything. You're already seeing it. Some of the richest billionaires in the world are moving out of California. They're flocking like crazy to Texas. They will go outside of country lines. And your government is neither smart enough nor capable enough to protect you.
So, no matter what party you believe in, what you control is what you own: assets versus pure labor. Who you're aligned with: isolated versus inside durable networks. How early you move: so whether you act in this transition window or you wait until the system has already decided where you fit.
And if you want more on the practical side, how to acquire real businesses, how to convert active income into assets, how to build families and firms that can survive, then you're going to want to stay close. That's the only kind of hope that isn't pure fantasy. Everything else is just arguing over where you got seated in that underclass.
So, I don't want you to leave depressed. I actually think builders will be one of the last bastions that exists. Pure creativity. Don't stop building. Let the robots help you become more productive. Increase what you can do every single day by becoming a human augmented by machines. And also, make sure that you don't stop to become a part of a system that is slowly leaving you behind. You need to own part of that.