Purgatorial Economics: You Are Training Your Replacement

Humans are training their own replacements, and most are too stuck in the Matrix to realise it.

I call this ‘Purgatorial Economics’: the idea that humans are being cleansed from the economic systems we originally built, to usher in a completely different era of civilisation - one that doesn’t require humans for the primary means of production.

In other words, anyone currently working a job for an employer is stuck in purgatory - a temporary state that is very clearly not going to last much longer.

The funny thing is, most of these people have no idea.

The stories they tell themselves about what their future will look like now differ from what their future will actually look like, by a stupendous degree.

And it seems the only people who truly understand this are those with the technical knowledge to not just say this, but to believe it with confidence.

Just take a look at some of the companies who cut jobs this week - this is the tip of a very, very large iceberg heading our way due to AI:

The scale is enormous.

What makes this worse, in my opinion, is that these jobs are never coming back.

The days where companies have hundreds of thousands or tens of thousands of employees consisting of useless middle managers and people who can get away with doing nothing, are coming to an end.

The gravy train is going to run out of gravy for everyone except the conductor.

Who is the conductor?

It’s Big Tech, and it’s the companies manufacturing the chips and robots that will power the automated economy of the future.

Everyone else is going to enter the ‘useless class’, who will likely subsist on UBI rather than income generated from employment.

This is why people ‘in the know’ are saying stuff like ‘you have 36 months to escape the permanent underclass’.

Here are some ways anyone currently working as an employee is training their replacement:

• If you are a digital worker, you’re probably noticing more and more companies rolling out meeting transcription tools and spyware on your laptop. Why are they doing this? Because if you can capture everything being discussed, you can capture the context needed for the eventual actions that proceed it. You capture all the data now, you then use that data in the future to automate the actions, as AI improves.
• If you are a physical worker, in the future you will be forced to use glasses like Meta’s RayBans. This will be pitched to you under the guise of ‘workplace safety’. The glasses will have AI built into it with automated risk detection (e.g. if it spots something dangerous and you don’t notice, it will alert you to decrease the risk of something going wrong). This will be similar to how self-driving cars already work - they automatically brake, for example, to avoid a crash. Don’t get me wrong, this will be a net positive - lives will be saved, but the process of wearing these glasses as you go about your job will also serve another purpose: capture the data of you doing your job, so a future AI model can interpolate, understand it, and eventually automate it.

We are all training our future replacements.

In the next section, I’m going to outline and explain another example that will impact all of you in the near future - a product whose impact on the economy will be so large, it is impossible to ignore if you want to stay ahead of the curve.

Humanoid robotics.