My Exact Plan to SURVIVE the AI Takeover

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 a 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 postconsumer

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

postconsumer 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 standin.

>> 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

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They help you grow it and you get people

to pay you immediately for ads cuz they

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just a user, that I invested money. It's

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ads, paid subs, digital products. They

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reporting so you can just stay focused

on what you actually like doing

creating. So if you're thinking, okay,

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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

longduration 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 posthuman 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.

There'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 verse 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