The Future and The Impact of AI and Inflation

What do you imagine the world to look like in 5-10 years’ time? As I mentioned earlier, you’ve got AI and the Apple Vision Pro, and eventually, they’re going to come out with sunglasses like the ones you’re wearing now that have every little thing that you need to see in front of you. So, what do you imagine the world to look like? Is it a scary place or is it something interesting?

It’s a good question, and I’m going to tell people how I came to my answer. I think the best way to predict the future is to study history. I believe in times of old—let’s go back the last 3,000 years—if you were a king, your life was pretty good, or it was as good as life could be. To be a king meant you had power, influence, and money. That was the life of a king, and you lived a good version of life. If you weren’t a king, you were an average man, a common man. I think the world is cyclical. When you were a common man 2,000 years ago, you were effectively a slave, and life was terrible.

The Cyclical Nature of Life

That was the same all the way up to perhaps the 1930s and 1940s. Being a common man was pretty terrible. Perhaps it was the war and the massive loss of life, or maybe it was something else; I’m not sure. But I kind of feel like there was a golden period between the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and maybe even the 90s where being a normal, hardworking man—because life is cyclical—went from being a terrible existence to quite a good existence.

In the 60s, you could be a normal man who worked in a factory, an unskilled labor job, and with one wage, you could afford a house, a car, and raise a family. Your children would not be taught garbage in school, your wife would respect you, and you’d have a home-cooked meal. Times were good. All the things I said earlier about playing Uno in hyperbole are true. What matters most is that your wife loves you, you’re respected as the breadwinner, your kids respect you and listen to you, your house is clean, your house is safe, your car works, and your life is good. But I feel like because it’s cyclical, those good times are over, and we’re going back to where it was before.

The Rise of Inflation and Its Impact

The kings have always been fine and always will be. But if you’re the common man, I think the good days are over, and it’s going to get harder and harder. Inflation is going to absolutely decimate your spending power. Now, inflation doesn’t damage me because I own all the assets. Inflation just means houses get worth more money. Inflation just means Bitcoin, stock, land, and houses all go up. Inflation means my car collection is no longer worth 110 million; it’s now worth 300 million. Whatever, I own everything. Inflation is amazing for the rich man, 100%. I love it.

But for the broke man, you’re done. You’re finished because inflation means your money is worth less, and it’s going to take more of your money to buy a house. Your wage is not going to increase at the rate of inflation. It’s becoming more and more impossible for you to own assets. For us asset owners, inflation is fantastic. So, the common man is about to get wrecked. I think inflation is going to make it exceptionally difficult. I think AI is going to make most jobs worth less than they currently are. If you’re a newspaper writer or whatever, AI is taking that. In the next 10 years, if you still have a job, it will only be managing the AI, which means you’ll be paid even less than you’re currently paid.

The Future of Employment

I think life is about to become exceptionally difficult for the people in the middle. I think the good times are over. I think it’s going back to the feudal system of kings, serfs, and peasants. If you’re a normal, average person now, you should feel deep fear and panic and understand that you have a certain amount of time to get into the higher bracket of the social class before these hard times come. The most scary thing about these hard times is that I have no real evidence for this; it’s just in my mind. I feel like the gap is going to permanently close.

In olden times, the chance of turning into anything more than a peasant when you were born a peasant was effectively zero unless there was chaos, war, or some great catastrophe which allowed social mobility. For you to go to war, win, get a knighthood for bravery, get some land, and change your social mobility class, there had to be war and chaos for you to escape. Without chaos, it’s kind of like a prison break. When all the rules are being adhered to and the prison is operating as it should, you’re stuck in your cell. But if there’s a prison riot, you have a chance to escape, which means uncertainty and chaos are required for the difference in social mobility.

The Role of AI and Control

That’s always been the case, but now I feel like with AI and certain other things, although there’s going to be instability in the world and they will continue to lie to us, I feel like the Matrix is going to gain enough control to keep us all in our pods, in our 15-minute cities, or our electric cars will be turned off, or we’ll need to get our bug rations for the week. There can’t ever be enough true chaos for you to escape. There won’t be true social mobility. I feel like there’s going to be a close. The people who are rich now, their bloodlines will be rich for a very long time. The people who are poor now, if they don’t get rich soon in the next 10 years or so, they’re never going to get rich. The prices of houses are going to continue to go up, the prices of land will continue to go up, inflation will continue to happen, and your wages will not catch up. It’s going to get harder and harder for the average person to ever stand a chance.

It’s now or never; it’s almost impossible right now. How does the average person on an average wage buy a house in London right now? It’s almost impossible already. I think in the next 10 years, it’s going to become truly impossible, and they’re going to use AI to keep the gap closed. What’s interesting about that is, well, I’m on the rich team, I guess. What I find most interesting about that is the socio ramifications of the fact that I think this is quite pertinent to most average people. Most normal people understand. If you were to ask them how the economy is, they’d say, “Well, it’s impossible. I can’t pay for my bills, I can’t pay to eat, I can’t afford a house, I can barely afford my mortgage, I’m never going to get rich this way.” They understand all of this, but they’re not panicking. Why are you not panicking?

The Titanic Analogy

The Titanic just hit the iceberg. You may not be in the water yet, but it’s a certainty. There’s nowhere else to go. It’s going to sink. It’s going to happen. Panic now. Don’t panic at the end with everyone else as they go into the icy depths. No, I would argue if I was on the Titanic and it got struck by the iceberg, I could have gotten a lifeboat nice and early. Now, I wouldn’t have Women and Children First. I’m just using this as an example analogy. I know where you’re going with it. I could have gone to the top deck when no one else was panicking and said, “You know what? I want this. I want to go on a lifeboat.” The guard probably would have said to me, “You don’t need to go on a lifeboat. There’s no big deal.” I said, “Yeah, but please just give me the lifeboat, or here’s some money, or whatever. I want this one.” Everyone started panicking at the end, and there were no lifeboats left.

People are sitting here now going, “Oh yeah, the economy is bad, but maybe if we vote for this person…” Who are you going to vote for that’s going to put money in your pocket? Actually come along and say, “Here’s money.” Nobody. You still have to pay your council tax. Nobody cares. No one you vote for is going to change it. It’s going to get worse. It’s going to continue, and you know the boat is going to sink, and you’re not panicking. That’s why I catch myself, and one of the things I try very hard not to do is become elitist.

The Elitist Perspective

When you’ve come from the absolute bottom to the absolute top, and you’ve done it all off of your own back and hard work and dedication, never missing a day, the only shortcut to life is to never miss a day. One, because of compounding interest, and two, because sometimes you get lucky, and you’ll never miss a lucky day if you try every day. If you don’t try every day, you might miss your lucky day. That’s what people don’t understand. If you never miss a day, and you never don’t try, and you’re always on time—was I late today? No, on time—and you try and improve every aspect of your life, and you’re a professional, and you try and make sure that you analyze your decisions, give yourself feedback, don’t make mistakes, and you’re not lazy, if you try and you make it to the top, you end up elitist because you look at the people down below, and you’re like, “Well, why didn’t you try?”

I did. Oh, I did too. No, you didn’t. That’s a lie. Now you’re lying to me, and that annoys me. You see yourself being very elitist, and this is what’s scary about it. I’m from a Luton council estate, and now I have all this money. But if I meet somebody who’s truly broke, truly broke, I’m not talking about not having hundreds of millions, but if I meet somebody who’s broke, I think they’re an idiot. I catch myself going, “Is that bad? Am I elitist?” Or do I sit down now and just say, “No, I started lower than you and beat you. How are you poor? You’re lazy.” Okay, okay, fair enough.

I was going to say, why would you say they’re an idiot if you were once in that position as well? No, I was, but I got out. I think one of the three reasons you can’t get rich in the world today is either you’re stupid, lazy, or arrogant. I find the most common one is lazy and arrogant. It’s not stupid. There’s nobody at home who is too stupid to become rich. I’m sure anyone watching this podcast right now, if you were to sit down next to me and I were to say, “Do this, do this, do this, do this, do this,” you could do it. Of course, you could. But you’re too lazy to learn how to do it yourself, and you’re too arrogant to listen.

It’s not about being stupid. You’re lazy or arrogant. It’s one of the two. Those are the two most common factors of people. So, when I meet people who have truly failed, and they pretend to me that they didn’t want to fail, I know they’re one of the three. It’s usually arrogance because when I sit and say to them, “You could have gotten out,” they don’t say, “You’re right, I could have gotten out. I didn’t try.” That shows humility. They don’t do that. They say, “No, no, no, because…” It’s excuse after excuse. Someone else’s fault. The matrix’s fault. No self-accountability. “Oh, well, you don’t know what you’re talking about anyway.” Arrogance, arrogance, arrogance.

The Mindset of Success

Sounds like a mindset to me. Well, yeah, exactly. Then they’re going to lose. I catch myself being elitist, and I try very hard not to be because I don’t consider myself a rich man. I’m a poor man with lots of money. What’s scary about being elitist is if I’m from a Luton council estate and I have a bunch of money now, and I see the common man as a lazy idiot, imagine how the elite see us. Then you start to really go down the rabbit hole when you understand these people who have been in charge of the world for a very long time, who own the banks, who believe they’re genetically superior to us. Why not? Their families always own the bank. They can be a fat loser, but they just believe they’re something because why not? They have a big boat. That’s just what they’re going to believe, isn’t it?

Imagine how they view the common man. You think they give a [expletive] about you or your family or your income or your wages? You think they care about you? You think they’re going to make life easier for the common man in the next 10 years, as you’ve just asked? Or are they going to continue to decimate your lifestyle for their own forever profit? There’s no light without dark, which is a basic fundamental law of the universe that can’t be broken. Especially as these large companies want forever profits, which they do, and they own everything. I don’t think many people understand, if you go into a supermarket and look around at the brands, you will struggle to find 10 brands that aren’t owned by the same company. The whole thing is owned by the same company that owns the supermarket. They own every brand. They own everything.

If they want forever profits, which they do, they’re not going to do that without owning everything. Also, you have to take that money from somewhere. If they can make you poor so they can get richer, they will. If they own all the assets, they want inflation. They want inflation. They don’t care. They don’t care about you. They don’t care if you can’t feed your family. Why would they?

Global Perspective

You can also look at this from a Global Perspective, which is quite interesting. Europe and America were built off the back of World War II. World War II made America rich. But Europe, for the longest time, got rich off the exploitation of second and third-world nations. That’s how it got rich, by building empires in Africa and Asia, etc., colonizing countries. That’s how they got rich. Now, we have populations in Europe and in the West which are decadent. We want high wages, maternity leave, holiday pay, good working standards, good working hours, and nice chairs to sit on. Now we’re entitled. If you’re a company and you need slaves, do you want entitled slaves or do you want slaves who are just going to do their job for low pay?

Then you start to understand why immigration is being unchecked on purpose. They can bring in people to work jobs for basically nothing, who don’t want a standard of living and don’t want a standard of work. What they’re effectively doing now is instead of exploiting the second and third world to benefit Europe, the globalists are now decimating Europe on purpose so that they can live somewhere else. That’s going to prop up the economies of the second and third worlds. The whole thing is reversed. Instead of destroying the second and third world for the benefit of Europe, they’re going to destroy Europe, and that’s going to benefit the second and third world. But they’re globalists, and they don’t care. All they care about is forever profits. They’ll go live in Saudi, they’ll go live in Mumbai. They don’t care. They’re not tied to the land or the place like the average European is.

If you’re the average man in a European country and you’re not financially free and you’re stuck somewhere in the middle, not only is your life going to get harder, but also the place you live in is going to get worse. Your wages are going to go down, crime is going to increase. All of these things are going to happen so that the people in charge can get their forever profits and avoid all the mess they make. It’s all done purposefully. If I was an average person, I’d be genuinely afraid. I mean, it’s easy for me because I have so much money. Okay, I’m currently restricted in Romania, and I’m under attack. They’ll put me in jail, blah, blah, blah. One day I’ll get out, and one day it will be over, and I’ll still be a millionaire. I can look at the map and go, “Where is safe?” Tokyo? Cool. Done.

Most people can’t do that. They can’t do that. They’re stuck. The fact that that doesn’t bother them or they don’t panic, I find flabbergasting. The iceberg has struck the Titanic. How long can you have a border where people can arrive by dinghy and throw acid in people’s faces until your nation has fallen? How long will you allow this to happen until you realize it’s done? It’s done. It’s done. How long will you sit there and get hit by endless bills, continued inflation that wrecks your currency, wages that don’t increase, new taxes with ULEZ cameras, unchecked immigration from people who don’t have a passport, and crime rates that increase?

Protecting Yourself in a Failing Society

Bro, I said this to Tristan. We were saying how we miss England because we’re English in our hearts, and part of us misses it. I was saying, “You know what? If I lived in England, I couldn’t even protect myself.” I have guys here with guns because I’m currently on bail, and I can’t carry a gun. Otherwise, I’m strapped all the time. If you come to my house, there’s a big gate, pit bulls, and four guys with weapons—guns. You need SEAL Team Six to get in my house. There are bulletproof doors, and I have a gun next to my bed. I’m the final boss. It’s going to be a shootout. In England, I can have all the money in the world. I can go to Radlett. I was looking at a house in Radlett. I’ll say it right now, it was 12 million pounds. It was gorgeous. I thought it was worth 20 million for 12 million, it was a bargain. I was like, “Tristan, if we bought this house, the problem is we couldn’t even protect ourselves because eventually someone will work out it’s our house.”

Just like all the footballers. Of course, all the footballers. When they go to play matches, they all get robbed. Eventually,

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