Ara Mahdessian
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 16 Mar
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And that was the chip on the shoulder that gave me the drive to want to work really hard so that probably, like if a psychologist were talking to me, probably so that I could simply prove that I was equal to others.
That's all it was about, that I wasn't inferior.
But that drive has led to whatever level of achievement I've seen in all the different forms in my life, whether it's business or in sports or whatnot.
And I just don't want to rob my kids of that.
So how do I kind of, you know, artificially like recreate that same opportunity to have a chip on the shoulder is something I spent a lot of time thinking about.
Yeah, it's a great question.
I don't want to pretend like I have all the answers.
The best I've come up with is that in the long run, this all trends to a world of radical abundance, what you called utopia.
Because ultimately, if you think about the price of anything,
The price of anything is based on the labor cost, the material cost, and then some profit margin on top.
That labor cost, assuming AI automates all labor, that labor cost goes to zero.
And then if you think about the material cost, like the material cost of that desk you're sitting in front of, like it's the cost of the wood.
Now, what is the material cost based off of?
What is the cost of wood based off of?
It is based off of the labor cost involved in going and finding timber and chopping down a tree and going through whatever process it goes through to turn into the lumber that they can make that they've got.
So material cost is actually composed of simply purely labor cost.
What happens when that Tesla Optimus 16.0 can just go off in the forest and
chop down a tree, process it however it needs to be processed and brings you that timber.
Like now your material cost is zero as well.
So now the cost of production of anything is zero.
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