Bostrom and Kurzweil mapped this out decades ago. There are roughly three phases between here and abundance, and your financial strategy should look completely different in each one. Phase 1 is now through ~2030. AI eats white-collar tasks. Costs drop in specific sectors. Scarcity persists in housing, energy, healthcare, and physical goods. Traditional saving still works here because the economy still runs on the old rails. Phase 2 is the messy middle. Maybe 2030 to 2038. Humanoid robots start scaling. Autonomous systems handle logistics, manufacturing, construction. Costs plummet across categories. This is where Musk’s thesis starts getting interesting. Your 401(k) contributions are buying assets denominated in a currency whose purchasing power is shifting underneath you. Saving “money” might matter less than owning productive assets, energy capacity, or compute. Phase 3 is full post-scarcity. Production approaches zero marginal cost. Kurzweil’s law of accelerating returns hits escape velocity. If this arrives, the thread is right. Your brokerage account is a relic. Nobody knows the transition speed between phases. The jump from Phase 1 to Phase 3 could take 5 years. Could take 50. Vernor Vinge called this the “event horizon” problem. You cannot see past the singularity because the rules change too fast to model. The smartest play: save aggressively in Phase 1 (you’re in it), but tilt your portfolio toward assets that appreciate during the transition. Companies building the infrastructure of abundance. Energy. Compute. Robotics. Physical AI. You’re betting on surviving the lag between when old systems break and new ones arrive. The sci-fi version: the starship is coming, but you still need oxygen for the walk to the launch pad.

>invite yourself to the jeff's diddy blud party >he frantically forwards it to ghislaine and asks her to deal with it >she tells him the parties are gone forever lol lmao

a guy stopped me after mass and asked for my number, my sister witnessed it, I am mortified