Here's a look at energy, the economy, and the future

[Praktica]

Which I found very interesting. It's from a US perspective, but still applies to us.

https://by-my-solitary-hearth.net/2025/1...ober-2025/

[Oh_hunnihunni]

I was just reading about how the next decade will see huge changes in everything in the human world, thanks to the ongoing development of ai.

It kind of makes ordinary concerns like the price of tea bags and the energy it takes to use them fade into insignificance.

A bit scary, to be honest.

https://www.tyla.com/news/ray-kurzweil-p...3-20251021

[Lilith7]

Quite glad that I'm unlikely to be around for several more decades, but I fear for the future generations.

[zqwerty]

The problem is over population and mismanagement, 2025 contingent has the solution and they are in the process of implementing it.

Amounts to gathering existing wealth by hook or by crook, cf Trump, and giving up management of the unsustainable economies that exist now and a lot of heartache and tears for the population which they, the billionaires, 1%'ers, don't care about because they are safe and provided for in their refuges, cf Peter Thiel et al.

[Praktica]

No refuge will be safe. Markets will collapse, because most will have no money to spend. Profits will disappear, loans will be defaulted. Where will those hiding in refuges get the necessaries of life? Money will mean nothing. Those who have prepared their communities will survive, but their life will be nothing like ours.

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Well, Thiel has made no secret of his opinion that a severely lowered human population is a good idea. Earth for the wealthy, with sufficient minions to serve their needs.

[zqwerty]

The refuges are hill top farms in Central Otago around Queenstown, farms with animals, chickens, sheep, cows for milk, underground bunkers with living quarters, underground fuel supplies, petrol and diesel, spares for 4wheel drive vehicles, and anything else you would need for say 6 months including a small private army. Helicopter to fly out and scout the area.

These people have plenty of money, millions is peanuts for them they are multi-billionaires.