Jacob Helberg
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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And and I actually think companies will choose, far from laying off workers, I think companies will choose to increase.
increase output because um if they don't their competitors will and and if and if you believe that uh uh at a from a first principle standpoint that human wants are unlimited, uh which I would argue they are.
I mean just look at our, you know, everything we consume today compared to our grandparents, um, I think we're looking at a world that's just gonna produce a lot more stuff.
And workers will just do a much bigger range of things because of AI.
And so I'm actually quite optimistic about the.
We're starting to see the contours of a totally new world.
And um, if you think about what the narrative was 10 years ago, um, 10 years ago the narrative was the uh the 21st century is gonna be the Chinese century, or you know, the century where the East rises, so to speak.
What it's proving today um is I actually think the defining feature of this century is not.
Not the rising of the East or the rise of China.
It's really the rise of superintelligence.
And the way that we're seeing this change the global landscape is on the one hand, I think we're likely to see a second great divergence.
So for the first time since the first industrial revolution, I think we're gonna see the economies that are first movers in uh
Integrating AI into their economy, reap massive productivity and growth benefits, and start to leapfrog the rest of the world that uh is lagging in AI adoption.
Number two, and a byproduct of this, is is a collapse of the cheap labor, the cheap labor advantage that a lot of developing economies have benefited from for the last 50 years.
The third big feature.
feature um which really hasn't been discussed a lot in the press is is that um it it is that Europe's economy has been collapsing.
And so you know the narrative today isn't that China's rising, the plot twist that no one saw coming is that it's it's actually Europe that's just collaps completely collapsing.
So Europe's economy went from being sixty-five percent of global GDP in the early twentieth century to roughly a third in the eighties and nineties, and now it's down to fifteen percent of global GDP.
What are the drivers of that?
What if they
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