In 5-10 Years You May Not Be Able To Earn Any More Money

I’ve stated this before, but today I’m going into more detail about what I’m doing about this.

It is the contention and prediction of many people I trust that because of AI, it is possible that in 5-10 years, you won’t be able to earn any more money than what you will have at that time.

This is because by that time, AI might be able to do literally everything you can do and do it better than you.

So why would anyone pay you to do something AI could do better?

The only possible exceptions to this might be people with personal brands (like me) and people engaged in manual physical labor, like if you’re an electrician or roofer.

However, eventually robots will replace those jobs as well (though that will take 20-30 years instead of 5-10 because of manufacturing limitations; AI and robots are two different conversations but that’s a topic for another time).

I have a personal brand that is growing, but I don’t sell my manual labor, nor want to. You probably don’t either.

I say words like probably and might because this is not a 100% prediction I’m making. This may not happen. But it’s quite probable in that it has a roughly 40-70% chance of happening.

If you want more details about this, read my book Freedom Fortress.

You can do whatever you want with your life, but this is what I’m doing.

I view this AI 5-10 year deadline the same way I view the collapse of the USA occuring in my lifetime: it’s very likely to happen, something I must protect myself and my family from if it happens, and even if it doesn’t happen, everything I do to protect myself will still greatly benefit me, therefore it’s worth doing regardless of what happens.

So I view this as a race. I have 5-10 years to make all of the money I want before I can’t make any more.

This means that I need to really bust my ass and scale my companies as fast as humanly possible. I have been doing exactly this for the past 3-4 years or so and will continue to do so for the next few months at least.

Some of my business buddies who make similar incomes as I do are doing this as well. We’re all now in a race to make millions of dollars as fast as humanly possible before AI replaces what we do.

Even after I (hopefully) transition into my next phase of life next year, when my income will no longer be my primary focus, I will still earn money through my efforts and my investments. This 5-10 year deadline will still be in my area of focus.

Since I have no idea if this will be five years, seven years, ten years, or 20 years or more, I have to assume a worst-case scenario, meaning five years. This is why, as one example, I moved out of the Collapsing USA in 2021 instead of waiting around for things to get really horrible before I left (which is what many of you are doing).

This means that by around 2030 (maybe) you and I won’t be able to earn any more money. Whatever money we have by then is all we’ll have for the rest of our lives.

Yikes.

After that, the economic system will change, and either you’ll be a slave to the UBI (universal basic income) of the AI Communist Utopia, or you’ll have millions of dollars to retire on in style.

And to repeat, it’s your life. You can just sit back, say that all this AI stuff is bullshit, AI will never get any better than it is today (people in my audience actually say this), and none of this will ever happen. Then just sit back and do nothing.

That’s fine, but it also sounds extremely foolish to me and that’s not how I do things. I want to be happy long-term no matter what happens. Long-term happiness is what I’m all about.

I don’t want to be happy in my future only if X, Y, and Z occur. That sounds dumb, at least to me. I want to be happy no matter what.

And as I mentioned above, if you bust your ass for the next 5-10 years and make several million dollars, and this AI replacement/takeover doesn’t happen, then congratulations, you’re a millionaire, and now you’re set for life anyway.

So there’s upside no matter what.

Therefore, at least in my view, the only reason to not do this is laziness.

“But I don’t want to work hard to make a bunch of money over the next 5-10 years.”

Okay, then don’t.

But this sounds a lot like people who spend their lives saying things like, “I don’t want to sell out to the corporate system,” and “I just want to be and live in the now, man,” and “There’s more to life than money,” and they take it easy throughout their working years.

Then, when they hit their 50s or 60s, they’re completely fucked. They have no money, they’re old, they can’t retire, and they’re eeking out a horrible living relying on scraps from government social security checks and begging their grown kids for money. (And do you really think Gen Z is going to have a lot of money in a few decades? Heh.)

It’s horrible and I’ve seen this a lot.

Hundreds of millions of people are going to make this mistake over the next 5-15 years, either through ignorance and laziness.

It’s going to be a bloodbath. People aren’t ready for what is (likely) coming.

But I will be.

And I hope you will too.

But most of you won’t.