8 Trillionaires vs. Humanity: The Dark Economics of the AI-Driven Future

Added: 2026-04-29

[00:00:00]We are about to enter a world where GDP for countries comes more from data centers and intelligence and AI than is going to come from the labor of human beings. There's something in economics called the resource curse. So think countries like Venezuela or Sudan where you discover that that country is sitting on top of a really valuable resource like oil. Once a bunch of your GDP comes from oil and not from the labor or innovation or development of your people, you invest more in oil infrastructure and not investing in people. When countries get almost all of their revenue from AI, do they have an incentive to invest in childare, healthare, education, the well-being of their people? Or is it basically just hook them up to the social media addiction economy while basically all the revenue comes from AI companies?

[00:00:44]This is not a human future. This is not a future that's in service of regular people. This is a future that's in service of eight soon to be trillionaires who will consolidate all the wealth and disempower basically everybody