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Thread: Are you saving and investing more to avoid the permanent AI underclass?

post 10000146338 04-30-2026, 07:19 AM
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Are you saving and investing more to avoid the permanent AI underclass?

Some people say AI will replace many/most jobs within the next 10-20 years.

If that's the case there will be no way for you or your descendants to survive, unless you were financially independent prior to the transition or get government handouts.

Is anyone taking this seriously enough to change their spending habits and save more? At the very least to set their children up?
post 10000146347 04-30-2026, 07:36 AM
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If you aren't a high earner your best chance is probably to go Amish. Buy a decent bit of land with water on it. Set yourself up to survive outside the system. Established ownership, self-sufficient as possible, with regular expenses low enough to cover with a part time gig or two- meaning the unavoidable like taxes and mandated insurance/fees, necessary services.
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post 10000146352 04-30-2026, 07:41 AM
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Originally Posted By katya422⏩
If you aren't a high earner your best chance is probably to go Amish. Buy a decent bit of land with water on it. Set yourself up to survive outside the system. Established ownership, self-sufficient as possible, with regular expenses low enough to cover with a part time gig or two- meaning the unavoidable like taxes and mandated insurance/fees, necessary services.
I have had the same thought but you still need to own land and pay taxes on it. High quality farmland is about $10,000 per acre.

So at a certain point you may as well just invest in the stock market anyway - either one requires capital.
post 10000146362 04-30-2026, 07:53 AM
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people will have to start homesteading again. maybe thats a good thing bc they wont be so exposed to societal garbage and propaganda

i feel like there will be super cities that are super technological ai robot police etc and then "outside" there is just ruin, poverty and decayed infastructure
Trust me when I say, the FEDs are watching.

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post 10000146370 04-30-2026, 08:05 AM
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I look forward to the day construction guys are the elite of society

White collar guys suck and add little to actually negative value to society working for corporations that sell shit ppl don’t need

I say this as a white collar guy
post 10000146374 04-30-2026, 08:12 AM
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Not due to AI or anything, but doing my best to get rid of credit debt I was stupid enough to get earlier in life.
post 10000146378 04-30-2026, 08:25 AM
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it’s smart to save and invest a lot anyway

Originally Posted By katya422⏩
If you aren't a high earner your best chance is probably to go Amish.
the Amish are probably gonna be the first to get replaced by AI, if they can make self driving cars can’t be that hard to make a self driving buggy
post 10000146380 04-30-2026, 08:30 AM
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Have like 200k inn student loans as well. Getting rid of 2 cards next month or so. Debt is a prison.
post 10000146388 04-30-2026, 08:42 AM
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Originally Posted By MiscDetective⏩
I have had the same thought but you still need to own land and pay taxes on it. High quality farmland is about $10,000 per acre.

So at a certain point you may as well just invest in the stock market anyway - either one requires capital.
You don't need that much acreage. And it needn't necessarily be "high quality farmland" which could be full of salt and chemicals if it had been under long term use. Check out permaculture and food animals like chickens, rabbits, and goats.

It is a lot of real deal physical work though. Not great for older people.

If you can come up with the down payment for a median house you should be able to take a shot at it. If not maybe you could find family willing to go in together. Maybe.

Most people don't want to sacrifice their accustomed way of living and that is understandable. Though it sure feels like the time to make a move was yesterday.

This gal dealt with a less than ideal lifestyle for over 4 years so that she could pay off her land and get a cabin.

You would definitely need to keep a low profile and/or be on good terms with the neighbors so they don't call the authorities on you for using your own land in an unapproved way.

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post 10000146389 04-30-2026, 08:43 AM
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Originally Posted By proudmanlet⏩
it’s smart to save and invest a lot anyway



the Amish are probably gonna be the first to get replaced by AI, if they can make self driving cars can’t be that hard to make a self driving buggy
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post 10000146391 04-30-2026, 08:44 AM
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Originally Posted By steffo99⏩
Have like 200k in student loans - it got me 6 yrs in the states though and the best memories of my life (as working class kid), but getting debt free is a major goal now. Getting rid of 2 cards next month or so. Debt is a prison.
Um, you live in Sweden and are working on paying off US student loans?
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Originally Posted By ymer⏩
Low IQ take. Humans are irreplaceable.

The problem is not AI, the problem is entitlement and people have become too comfortable asking for too many things. This will self-correct with a good recession, people will drop their entitlement when they can't pay for their bills and get any job thrown at them.
production has gone way up since the 50s and wages have actually gone down relative to buying power

sounds like the jews got u carrying their water. go hire some n*****s than retard
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post 10000146395 04-30-2026, 08:49 AM
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Originally Posted By ymer⏩
Low IQ take. Humans are irreplaceable.

The problem is not AI, the problem is entitlement and people have become too comfortable asking for too many things. This will self-correct with a good recession, people will drop their entitlement when they can't pay for their bills and get any job thrown at them.
Meh.

Last I've read the expectation is for AI to eliminate 20% to 25% of jobs.

How many will be taken over by robots? Simple labor stuff?

I mean maybe it will all work out in the long run...below replacement birth rates. But in the short term it sure seems likely that there will be an excess of available labor along with a reduced market for goods and services as people without jobs/income are spending constrained.

There are still a lot of old people. Might be able to get in on that caretaking for gym and protonz deal. All robot nursing homes would be bleak.
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post 10000146398 04-30-2026, 08:56 AM
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I have invested as much as possible since I was 18 yrs old. Not because of AI, but because I dont want to be poverty. Srs, vry srs.
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Originally Posted By katya422⏩
Um, you live in Sweden and are working on paying off US student loans?
Yeah, I took them, as a working class kid with not many options and went to the states. Loans were from our government though not yours.
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