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I'm telling you guys right now - the only way to "fix" the AI perception in the general public is very simple. You have to start with the fact that the core Abundance thesis - disease resolved, near-free energy, endlessly abundant robotic labor (digital and physical) doing things on your behalf is AT MINIMUM 5 years away. More likely 10 years away at any meaningful scale. As we march towards that future, the companies that are building it will begin accruing a significant % of the wealth, which a lot of it will come from disrupted legacy businesses that don't adapt quickly enough. For example, once a company solves the cure for cancer, what happens to all the companies who make a ton of money administering care for cancer? They go bye bye. All those people working for those companies? Jobless. Where does a lot of the money that would've gone to them go instead? To the company that cured cancer. Extrapolate this to basically every industry - digital first, then physical. As companies try to adapt, they will become hyper-efficient. Hyper-efficiency means extreme usage of AI. Extreme usage of AI means minimum number of humans in the loop. Minimum number of humans in the loop means mass layoffs for companies that have to shift from humans to AI. Will there also be a huge growth of new jobs/business because of AI? Absolutely. Is that number greater or equal to the number of layoffs? Absolutely not. Why? Because building your own thing is hard AF, is painful, and it requires a certain demeanor/life circumstance that allows you to take the risk to build the thing. The friction to do that is FAR GREATER than the friction for a business to layoff people in order to compete in an AI-native world. The flip side is that we're going to get MASSIVE deflation as businesses HAVE to adopt AI. There will be next-level competition on costs to deliver high quality products/services for the lowest possible cost. This is going to be incredible... for the people that have money to spend. For the people that DON'T have money to spend, or for the people who ARE NOT CONFIDENT that they can build a life in the AI age, or for the people who simply DO NOT want to build a life in the AI age because they don't want change, the coming time feels extremely scary and uncertain. This is most people. Most people are not risk takers. Most people want to live a life of comfort, happiness, and predictability. Most people don't want sudden change. This is not a good or bad thing. It's reality. People are afraid for good reason. So what's the easiest way to remove that fear? To give people a safety cushion - in the form of money - that tells them that they will not go hungry, lose their home, or end up worse off because of AI while we transition to abundance. There's literally no other way. You can sell people the hopes and dreams of AI all you want - which are 100% accurate and WILL HAPPEN. But people aren't dumb. They know the downside risk, and they know the transition can easily be bungled. Anyone who has interfaced with AI semi-seriously can already tell that it is a SUPERHUMAN tool. It is very easy to make the jump that says "if it's superhuman, then it can do the job that I can as well. And if that's the case, then what do I do?" There's no PR campaign that exists that will cause people to set aside their very RATIONAL fears and instead tell themselves that potentially losing their livelihood will be good for them long term. It very well may be, but try telling that to a country with 60%+ of the people living paycheck to paycheck. It doesn't work. So either deliver the abundance thesis ASAP - which is wholly dependent on businesses achieving their goals FASTER... or give people money to survive the inevitable chaotic transition. My 2 cents. Hope I'm wrong.