Predictions for Coming Decades. 🤔 1. AI and robotics will rapidly, on the order of one or two decades, displace most careers, even as new vocations emerge, and higher education comes into question. 2. The population will be dialed down by a factor of 10-100x. Most of this will be indirect and has already been accomplished. 3. The white race will join the jews in becoming a small, international minority. Sponsorship of American blacks through welfare and social justice will, by all practical measures, be abandoned. Tech Asians and Indians will pivot hard into AI but be late on Bitcoin, setting them back dearly. Hispanics will return to LatAm which will be more desirable in terms of freedom. Indians in healthcare will be replaced by automation and Indians in call centers will pivot to AI scams before ultimately returning to poverty before being phased out to reclaim India's natural habitat. 4. What remains of the useless/welfare class will continue to be monetized/productized by the ruling class, whether as lab rats, organ donors, sex slaves, and as insurance against extinction. Many will be employed in the vocation of 'terreforming' the world back to a green, natural state under the guise of environmentalism before they are ultimately phased out. Weather warfare and vaccines will be used to covertly sterilize, maim, and kill poorer population's using a broad, impersonal brush. Cancer centers and other exploititive industries will loot these populations on their way out. 5. Political rhetoric will abandon the far leftism of the last 150 years, shifting back to moderatism (as internationally cooperative populist factions), which will temporarily feel 'far right'. Nothing about Gov agendas in the greater sense will change, just the marketing. 6. Micro states, for the elite and scrappy freedom minded, will mature on the political stage. Federalism in the US will provide relief for crafty families seeking refuge from an unlimited police state. 7. Nuclear power will finally begin advancing again in large and small capacity. Batteries will become better and more ubiquitous. Solar will become the poor man's decentralized energy. Efforts to propagandize carbon fuels will be abandoned. 8. #Bitcoin will replace gold and at least half of all capital will find it's way into the network, but probably more. Families who move now will ultimately join the ruling class. Wealth will be measured in money, privacy, and relative freedom to the norm. Natural rights will become 'pay to play'. 9. Governments will continue copying Beijing's high tech, surveillance society under different marketing in order to prevent an uprising as this era ends. The wealthiest people on earth will enjoin themselves into the reset of governance. 10. Social media will finish usurping the mass media as the preferred platform for government information. State sponsored podcasters will drown out most authentic voices. #Nostr and other platforms will survive on the fringes but noise will still be so high that it will be difficult to track the advance of reset. Productive families will find sanity in small worlds where signal can be cultivated and defended. 11. Private payment tech on #Bitcoin will be slyly introduced into some fringe economies at real scale for the first time. #GrapheneOS or a project like ir will break out of Linux/Android/Pixel using a Rust based microkernel, eliminating much of today's attack surface and eventually shipping their own hardware which will become ubiquitous with families who still have money. Open source chips and a freeing of the entire computing stack will be well underway.

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Love predictions! I’m interested in the one about folks moving, I’m gonna predict the equatorial region is gonna thin way out as they flood north and south over time…
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nobody 5 months ago
Re 6: Aside from bitcoin what do you think the competitive/defensive moats would be for the scrappy micro states? Imo it may not be enough. Thinking it through: there is a perverse incentive to prevent a big HODLer from spending even if you can’t get to their coins bc it take supply offline.
It depends what you mean by 'enough'. Enough to take haven during times of extreme change? Perhaps. Enough to change the trajectory of the era in twilight? I don't think so.
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RamenCoffee 5 months ago
Nice. Just a simple observation. You tend to overshoot on the dystopia. You're generally correct but generally forget about adding a resistance factor. Also, politicians derive their power from large content populations. Smaller populations will lead to more turbulent flows and rebellion.
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nobody 5 months ago
Probably I’m more interested in what you think are strategies that would prevent their enclave from being subjugated. Mastering particular trades? Particular modes of asymmetric defense/warfare? Spy craft?
Re 8: how will the socialist/communist/authoritarian govs pay the enforcers of their policies if over half of capital/wealth is difficult or impossible to confiscate? If it's the rich elites footing the bill will they really be able to sustain their position in a new hard money (bitcoin) world? My understanding of the most recent hard money era is it tended to empower the productive but also improve the standard of living and thus autonomy of even the relatively unproductive due to monetary deflation, improved capital allocation and tech innovation. image
Very bearish on humanity I see. I will be focusing on my family and community as always, the rest is outside my control
Perhaps we should be asking if this perceived future is a "Great Filter" that stops us from spreading out into the universe? Given the fact that we should be able to spot a civilisation like our own up to 100 light years away and a more advanced one from either further away, we should be wondering why it looks like a dark forest out there... Humanity needs to spread out into our solar system at least and the Great Reset plans that you seem to be referring to, are an anti-human future...
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nobody 5 months ago
“The white race will join the jews” Christ cucks will slob on the jewish knob forever. And gleefully appease their master. I Expect a branch of whites to wake up, resist, expell the synagogue.
Will our elite top 1% be managing, repairing, upgrading, etc. the spyware and killer robots? Won't the other 99% also be able to acquire their own counter-spyware and protection bots? I'm just saying if bitcoin prevents most people's wealth from being covertly siphoned off, as in our current system, it will be much harder for a small minority to control them.
I agree that Bitcoin makes it harder for them to steal from us, but History shows us that if those at the top want to whittle our numbers down, well, wars, famines and similar events do tend to happen on a fairly frequent basis... If they don't need us to provide for them, then why would they keep the "Useless Eaters" around if they don't have to? Gain of Function research is just one of the fun ways they spend their money...
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Bobby Shell 4 months ago
Christians do not agree with corruption from Israel. Most who think they are Christians are not. The gate is narrow. While their "chosen" status by God is real, no one should defend the evil happening. That is the nuance. The gate is very narrow.
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Sons Of Satoshi 4 months ago
I don’t see governments being capable of maintaining a threatening surveillance state with the onset of a dwindling population. Less people would mean abandoned cities and failing infrastructure. Land would be free to occupy at your own will. No bureaucrats telling you what you can’t do.
I was able to feed these assumptions into #Grok in order to generate a trend narrative which acts more like a map. I'm going to iterate on the inputs, adding new assumptions, and tying this shift into historic political resets (especially the transition from Roman Empire to Republic and ultimately it's fall) but also demographic trends and various cycle theory. Still, pretty happy with the current state. - 1. Bitcoin Aristocracy Emerges : With Bitcoin absorbing half the world's capital, early adopters form a new global elite, controlling access to natural rights like privacy and free movement. Families who invest now gain generational wealth, but those late to Bitcoin face exclusion from this pay-to-play system, creating a stark divide between the crypto-rich and everyone else. 2. Microstate Boom : Wealthy island nations and small countries like El Salvador become hubs for freedom-minded families and elites, offering Bitcoin-based economies and lax regulations. These microstates compete for residents by promising protection from global surveillance, leading to a patchwork of sovereign enclaves where local governance trumps global control. 3. U.S. Federalism Revival : In the U.S., states like Texas or Wyoming become sanctuaries for families escaping federal overreach. Strong state-level protections allow communities to opt out of social credit systems, fostering local economies that prioritize Bitcoin and decentralized energy, like small-scale nuclear or solar-battery setups. 4. Surveillance-Driven Exile : Extreme global surveillance and pre-crime systems push families to adopt open-source tech like GrapheneOS and Noster for secure communication. Those who can't afford or access these tools face constant monitoring, forcing tech-savvy families to either hide in microstates or form underground networks to evade social credit penalties. 5. AI Job Wasteland : AI and robotics wipe out mid-level corporate jobs, leaving only market-facing roles and elite positions intact. Families in traditional white-collar or manual jobs must retrain in Bitcoin tech, decentralized energy, or community leadership to stay relevant, while automation creates a surplus of unemployed workers. 6. Nuclear Renaissance : Large-scale nuclear plants and small modular reactors dominate energy production as wind and solar falter. Families in rural areas use advanced batteries to store solar power, creating decentralized microgrids, but urban centers rely on government-controlled nuclear energy, tying them to surveillance systems. 7. Welfare Class Commodification : The ruling class turns the welfare class into a resource-used for medical experiments, organ harvesting, or labor in terraforming projects disguised as environmentalism. Families in this group face covert sterilization or elimination via vaccines and weather manipulation, pushing them to seek refuge in microstates or risk extinction. 8. Demographic Reshuffling : European whites, now a small minority, form tight-knit diaspora communities, preserving culture through private Bitcoin-backed networks. American blacks, losing welfare, either migrate to microstates or face marginalization. Hispanics flock to Latin America for freedom, while Asians and Indians, late to Bitcoin, struggle economically as AI scams and automation disrupt their industries. 9. Social Media as State Propaganda : State-sponsored podcasters flood social media, drowning out authentic voices. Families turn to small, curated communities or decentralized platforms like Noster to find reliable information, but the noise from the information war makes it hard to track global shifts like the Bitcoin-driven monetary reset. 10. Environmental Deception : Terraforming projects, marketed as green initiatives, exploit the welfare class for labor before phasing them out. Families aware of this avoid participation by building self-sufficient homesteads with solar and nuclear tech, distancing themselves from government-backed environmental scams. 11. Tech Liberation Movement : Open-source chips and a freed computer stack gain traction, driven by freedom-minded families and microstates. This reduces reliance on corporate-controlled tech, but only tech-savvy families can fully leverage these tools, widening the gap between the digitally literate and others. 12. Monetary Reset Chaos : As Bitcoin replaces gold, traditional financial systems collapse, causing temporary economic turmoil. Families who prepared by holding Bitcoin thrive, while others face hyperinflation or asset seizures under surveillance-heavy regimes, forcing rapid adaptation to crypto economies. 13. Cultural Isolationism : Demographic shifts lead to insular cultural enclaves. European whites, Hispanics, and others create Bitcoin-backed micro-communities to preserve traditions, but these face pressure from global surveillance states trying to enforce uniformity through social credit systems. 14. Health Autonomy Surge : Fear of covert sterilization and harmful vaccines drives families to alternative medicine and self-reliant healthcare. Bitcoin-funded private clinics emerge in microstates, offering unmonitored care, while public health systems become tools for population control. 15. Political Rhetoric Shock : The West's shift to moderate but far-right-feeling rhetoric alienates left-leaning families, who either adapt or migrate to microstates. This creates a polarized West where traditional liberal values erode, replaced by pragmatic, surveillance-tolerant governance. 16. Information War Fatigue : The flood of state-sponsored content on social media overwhelms most families, who retreat to small, trusted networks for clarity. These small worlds become critical for sharing knowledge about Bitcoin, tech, and survival strategies, but staying connected requires constant vigilance against infiltration. 17. Latin American Renaissance : Latin America becomes a beacon of freedom as Hispanics and others migrate there, drawn by Bitcoin-friendly policies and less surveillance. Countries like El Salvador lead the way, creating a new economic hub that rivals microstates for influence. 18. AI Scam Epidemic : Indians pivoting from call centers to AI-driven scams spark a global wave of digital fraud, targeting non-Bitcoin economies. Families must adopt advanced cybersecurity and Bitcoin-based payments to avoid being scammed, accelerating the shift to crypto. 19. Terraforming as Population Control : So-called environmental projects mask efforts to reduce populations via labor exploitation and covert sterilization. Families who recognize this pattern avoid urban centers, focusing on rural self-sufficiency to stay off the radar of these programs. 20. Bitcoin Monarchy Models : Microstates like El Salvador pioneer governance tied to Bitcoin, creating hybrid monarchies where crypto wealth dictates power. Families aligning with these systems gain influence, while others face exclusion from decision-making. View quoted note →