Doc Wilson

Actually, AI/Robotics will mean everyone can have a penthouse if they want. The output of goods & services will be several orders of magnitude higher than today’s economy. Read the Iain Banks Culture books for the best imagining of how it will be. That said, what is the future you want? Amazing abundance seems the best to me.

⚡️The people who are most prone to depression in modern life are often people who have time and comfort but no purpose. The professional class with stable jobs and no deep stakes. The retired. The recently graduated. The recently divorced. The recently laid off. Transition states where the structure that gave meaning has been removed and nothing has replaced it. Those are the high risk populations and they’re high risk precisely because they have time to notice that something is missing. The modern mental health framework often treats depression as a discrete medical condition that can be addressed through medication and therapy without reference to the conditions of the person’s life. Sometimes that’s the right treatment. Sometimes the person’s life is structured in a way that will produce depression regardless of how much medication and therapy you give them. The symptoms can be managed but the underlying condition persists because it’s generated by the life itself, not by a disorder inside the person. Someone working a meaningless job with no relationships and no purpose is going to be depressed. That’s not a disorder. That’s an appropriate response to the conditions. The pathology is in the situation, not in the person. Treating the person without addressing the situation is managing symptoms while maintaining the cause. The patient gets slightly better or slightly worse but the depression doesn’t resolve because the conditions that produce it haven’t changed. What Trump is describing, probably without meaning to, is that if you change the conditions, the depression often takes care of itself. Not always. But often enough that it’s worth taking seriously. The person who finds a calling, builds something meaningful, falls in love, becomes a parent, commits to a mission, often reports that their depression lifted. Because the conditions that generated the depression were replaced by conditions that generate engagement. The mental health industry has a financial incentive not to say this clearly because the conclusion is that the most effective intervention for a significant chunk of depression is structural life change, not billable treatment. Medication and therapy are excellent businesses. Helping someone reorient their life around something they care about is not really a business at all. It requires the person to do the work themselves. There’s no pharmaceutical equivalent.

The extensive UBI we already have is not resulting in very much hunting, fishing, or herding. In fairness, it is generating quite a lot of criticism.

Gay man with a husband posts video of his baby asking for "Mama" before 'laughing' in the comment section about the idea of throwing "it away" and starting over. Commenter: "Throw it away and start over." Shane McAnally: "😂😂😂" The baby was born via surrogate in October 2025. McAnally, 51, who shared the footage on his Instagram page, is a country singer-songwriter.