I unpack why today’s AI “visionaries” look less like innovators and more like an oligarchy openly telling the rest of us we’re disposable.
Chapters:
00:00 – “In Time” and the price of survival
01:00 – Meet the ‘architects of AI’
02:00 – Socialized risk, privatized reward
03:00 – Human cost is a rounding error
04:00 – Since 1980: the siphon at work
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Left in Exile Intro
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Transcripts
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Those lines were said by Henry Hamilton, a character. In the movie in Time, and he's talking to Justin Timberlake's character Will Salas and in that world, what you have is a society that's built literally on time, meaning you trade minutes off of your clock. For what you need to survive in that world. So within that world, you have a class of people that literally have millions of years on their clocks, and you have the vast majority of everybody else who is living day to day, minute by minute where every second counts, and you are scraping by for survival.
And in that world, what happens to those people who are moving day to day, doing whatever they can to just survive for one more day? The cost of everything in their world increases almost on a daily or weekly basis. What does that sound like today?
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Time Magazine decided that their person of the year were the architects of ai, and what you see in this image are all of the oligarchy adapted to one of the most iconic images of America as it rose to prominence.
The original picture included a bunch of tradesmen.
Sitting high up in the sky on that girder eating lunch. They were literally risking their lives to build America as we know it, and many lost their lives in the pursuit of that. And who benefited from all of that work?
The oligarchy of that time.
See, the difference between today's oligarchy and the billionaire class of yesteryear is that at least those billionaires of the past had enough shame to not put themselves out there as if they were more than what they were. We don't have that today. We don't have a billionaire or elite class that has shame.
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Now consider that even with all of that, none of these billionaires are ever satisfied. They're always looking at ways that they can actually. Increase or hoard more resources, and they're willing to do whatever it takes, as long as it involves you footing the bill, and it involves you putting the risk in.
They're never putting their own money at risk. It's always your money, your life, your family's life, your survival. That is the cost of them doing business.
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They're openly advertising that their pursuit of this AI McGuffin is worth more than anything and everything that this world has to offer. While they're talking about going to Mars and going to the moon and building super intelligence, what they're doing in the process is destroying anything and everything around you that you need to survive.
They're telling you that you don't count and the proof's in the pudding.
If you think about the billionaire class of today, the billionaires in the us, their combined wealth exceeds all of the combined wealth of the bottom 50% of the US population. And they could never spend that wealth in multiple lifetimes.
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How is that working out? [00:04:00] What does the economy look like since 1980? What you've seen since 1980 is the wealth of the billionaire class going like this, and the wealth of the middle class and the bottom 90% going like this.
That is a khap economy, an economy that benefits. The very few and crushes everyone else.
And if you don't believe that, go on LinkedIn. Go scroll through your feed. Look at how many people are out of work and they're out of work because billionaires openly said that a nice little recession would make all of you little people thankful for what you have.
This is engineered and it's engineered to serve two of their main purposes. One, maximize their shareholder value, and two. Rob from you to feed their greed. That's the only thing that they care about. It's quite literally for billionaires to thrive, billions must die. And we're seeing that play out today in every single thing that they do.
