No one is prepared for how bad life could really get if the billionaire class actually succeeds in no longer needing the other 99% of us for labor.
They suffer us now because they have to.
They won't once they don't.
it makes me feel ungrateful cause I know I have it good in a lot of ways, which I’m thankful for. But I’ve just always lacked a joy for life that a lot of people seem to have. I’ve never had it
I don’t really enjoy life and it’s always been like that for me. I do a lot to distract myself and improve my life and grow. And I take my meds and I have happy moments but the majority of it is very tiring and I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t like this. Idk why
Met a guy making $3.6 million a year
With one of the cleanest digital plays I've ever heard of
He scrapes the App Store for apps with 50k+ downloads but no updates in 18+ months
DMs the developers with $2-3k cash offers. Most accept fast, they've moved on
Hires a Filipino dev for $400/month to add subscriptions and refresh the listing
Each app starts pulling $800-3,000/month passive
Owns 220+ across categories he doesn't even use
Spends 5 hours a week on the whole portfolio
Inspiring
Everyone’s calling LinkedIn layoffs tomorrow.
The HR departure data says something is moving internally.... but not enough for me to make that call.
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The thing that many Boomers can't understand is that America is now a weak country. Our industry has been outsourced. Prostitution (OnlyFans) is the most lucrative profession for our girls. The birth rate has collapsed. The debt is growing at an alarming rate. All the institutions are anti-white. Our politicians are controlled by a foreign power. Savages kill and rob people on the street with impunity. Homosexuality is our highest value.
@TechLayoffLover Hello “computer science grad from Penn State”
Please show me your portfolio and side projects you’ve done during your studies.
Ohh? You don’t have any?
A computer science grad from Penn State finished with $140,000 in loans and a 3.4 GPA
June 2025: 127 applications, 3 phone screens, 0 offers
July: 298 applications, 1 technical interview, rejected for "cultural fit"
August: 412 applications, automated rejections before human review
September: 573 applications, every posting now says "3+ years experience required"
October: 681 applications, companies ghost after coding challenges
November: 789 applications, "entry level" roles asking for senior expertise
December: 923 applications, positions pulled offline after he applies
January 2026: 1,147 applications, LinkedIn Premium account maxed out
His parents asking every Sunday dinner when the "computer job" starts
"You're smart with computers, why can't you get hired"
Meanwhile his roommate makes $31,000 managing a GameStop
The brutal math: minimum wage in Pennsylvania is $7.25 an hour
Student loan interest alone: $8,400 per year
Full-time minimum wage gross: $15,080 per year
He'd need to work 67 hours a week just to cover the interest
Never touching the principal
Never eating food
But sure, keep telling kids computer science is a guaranteed career
A 19 year old gets on Zoom calls with business owners and shows them how they're about to throw away $600,000.
He opens with one question. How much are you paying your receptionist?
The dental office owner says $60,000.
The kid says: over the next 10 years that's $600,000 going to someone who calls in sick, takes lunch breaks and goes home at 5. For a job a machine can do for $12,000 once.
Then the second question. How many calls do you miss every day? Voicemails nobody calls back. People who hang up after three rings. New patients who try once and never try again.
The owner stops. Pulls up his phone log. Counts. 8 missed calls a day. Sometimes more. Each one is a $200 patient walking past the front desk while it's empty for lunch. $1,600 a day. Almost $600,000 a year in revenue he never knew was leaving.
That number sits on top of the $600,000 in salary. The owner is staring at a chart he never let himself draw before.
That's when the kid says it. I can build you something for $12,000. Picks up every call. Doesn't sleep. Doesn't take vacation. Books patients while you're operating on someone else. Pays for itself in the first week.
The $12,000 invoice doesn't feel like an expense. It feels like a refund.
The kid closes 3 to 4 of these calls a month. $50,000 in revenue. He's 19.
Behind the scenes he's not building anything from scratch. He's running Kimi K2.6 with 300 parallel sub agents, paying $0.60 per million tokens instead of $5 with Claude. The same reception agent a real developer would charge $40,000 to build, he ships in 30 minutes.
12 hour autonomous sessions. Zero human involvement. One prompt and the agent goes live. Answering calls. Booking patients. Routing emergencies. Before the owner finishes his coffee.
His friends are working summer shifts at coffee shops for $14 an hour. He's making $600,000 a year by walking into a Zoom call and naming the most uncomfortable number a business owner has on his books.
His secret isn't technology. He never argues with the owner about whether AI works. He hands the owner a calculator and asks the questions the owner has been avoiding for years.
By minute 8 the owner has done the math himself. By minute 12 the kid quotes the price. By minute 15 the contract is signed.
He told his dad about it once. His dad is an insurance salesman. 30 years selling the same product to every client for the same reason: fear of losing what they already have.
His dad listened. Then said: you sell the same thing I sell. You just call it AI.
The kid said: I don't even call it that. I let them call it whatever they want.
His dad smiled. Walked out of the room.
The kid had another call in 10 minutes.
A vibecoder cannot comprehend:
- security for his app
- auth in the app
- payment integration
- scaling issues
It’s difficult to create production apps.
@asaio87 Auth is where I've been stuck the longest, fair point. But I've shipped live products without writing a line of code. It just took longer than I expected.
@stockmarketfun@asaio87 Now talk to me about what your queries are doing and how exactly you configured the database indexes for them. You don’t know what you don’t know.
@pcshipp I mean isn't the end goal to make money? I think versions in this case work well. You have something free and the rest is locked behind a paywall. But the free version also solves a small problem.
Please don’t make this mistake in your app
Recently, I added a hard paywall because users weren’t buying premium
Before that, my app was getting around 30–50 downloads per day, and I used to get 1–2 good ratings daily
After adding the hard paywall, everything went worse
People started giving 1-star ratings, and around 80% of users began deleting the app
All my downloads depend on ASO. I don’t have strong marketing skills
When users delete your app quickly, your retention drops instantly.
And when retention drops, the App Store / Play Store algorithm reduces your ASO reach
Slowly, your app visibility keeps decreasing
Hard paywalls work only when you’re running ad campaigns
@pcshipp It’s so annoying when users leave bad reviews because of pricing or a paywall. Like, just don’t use it and move on. And when they make false claims about features. Google is awful about being able to remove these crap reviews that drag an app down
🚨ANTHROPIC'S FOUNDER JUST PREDICTED THAT AI WILL DOUBLE HUMAN LIFESPAN TO 150 YEARS.. CURE MOST CANCER.. AND ELIMINATE POVERTY.. ALL WITHIN 10 YEARS.. AND HE'S NOT EVEN THE OPTIMISTIC ONE..
Everyone thinks Dario Amodei is the guy who wants to slow AI down.. The cautious one.. The safety guy..
He just published an essay predicting what happens if AI goes right.. And it reads like science fiction.. Except he's dead serious.. And he has the credentials to back every word..
Here's what he thinks happens in the next 5 to 10 years..
Nearly all infectious disease.. Prevented or cured.. mRNA vaccines already showed us the path.. AI finishes the job..
Most cancer.. Eliminated.. Not just treated.. 95% or greater reduction in both deaths and new cases.. AI designs treatment regimens tailored to the individual genome of each tumor.. Something that's technically possible today but takes enormous human expertise to do.. AI scales it to everyone..
Alzheimer's.. Solved.. He thinks it's exactly the type of problem AI can crack.. Because it requires better measurement tools to isolate what's actually happening in the brain.. Once we understand it.. Prevention will probably be surprisingly simple..
Genetic disease.. Most of it preventable through improved embryo screening.. And curable in living people through safer descendants of CRISPR..
Most mental illness.. Cured.. Depression.. PTSD.. Addiction.. Schizophrenia.. He believes the answer is some combination of biochemistry and neural network-level problems that AI can untangle..
And here's the line that stopped me..
Human lifespan.. Doubled.. To 150 years..
He points out that life expectancy already doubled in the 20th century.. From 40 to 75.. So doubling it again is "on trend".. Drugs already exist that increase maximum lifespan in rats by 25 to 50%.. Some turtles already live 200 years.. We're clearly not at a biological ceiling..
He calls this the "compressed 21st century".. The idea that AI gives us 100 years of biological progress in 5 to 10 years..
But he doesn't stop at health..
He thinks AI could drive 20% annual GDP growth in the developing world.. Bringing sub-Saharan Africa to China's current GDP per capita within a decade..
He thinks AI could eradicate malaria not through treating millions of people individually.. But by releasing modified mosquitoes that block the disease at the source.. One centralized action instead of a million..
He thinks AI could make democracy structurally stronger.. Not through propaganda.. But by giving every citizen an AI that knows every law they're entitled to.. Every benefit they qualify for.. Every right they have.. And helps them actually access it..
He imagines AI that monitors judicial systems for bias.. AI that helps find common ground between opposing political views.. AI that makes government services actually work the way they're supposed to..
And he addresses the question everyone asks.. What happens to meaning when AI can do everything..
His answer.. Most people aren't the best in the world at anything right now.. And it doesn't bother them.. Meaning comes from relationships and connection.. Not economic productivity.. People will still pursue difficult challenges.. Still compete.. Still create.. The fact that an AI could theoretically do it better won't matter any more than it matters that someone somewhere is already better than you at every hobby you have..
But here's what makes this essay different from every other AI optimism piece..
Dario Amodei runs one of the three most powerful AI companies on earth.. He has a PhD in computational neuroscience.. He personally worked on mass spectrometry and neural probes.. He's not a pundit.. He's a scientist who happens to be a CEO..
And the same man who publicly says there's a 25% chance AI causes human extinction.. Is also saying that if we get it right.. We cure nearly every disease.. Double human lifespan.. Eliminate most poverty.. And fundamentally transform what it means to be alive..
Both things are true at the same time..
That's what makes this the most important essay anyone in AI has written this year..
He ends with this.. "I think many will be literally moved to tears by it"..
He's talking about watching disease disappear.. Poverty dissolve.. Human potential unlock all at once..
Not in a century.. In a decade..
If we get it right.