The other parallel to what you describe is that the shift of populations from rural, agricultural areas to citys, is over in the west, no more strong healthy polite civilised people with strong work ethics, who knew that hard work would pay off, and they could have a house and 3 or 4 kids and buy a bunch of the shiny stuff in the magazines and there kids could go to college, work at the plant and get a gold watch, precisely what my grandfather did, and millions of others. But starting in the 1980's there were not enough men to do those jobs, so those plants were offshored to cheap plentiful labour countrys. But there were still enough farm boys to take the higher payed jobs IN the citys, and do trade work, but the wealth dwindled, and there kids have zero interest in busting there knuckles, and so skilled, self starting,enthusiastic,labour, is gone. My personal experience is that I will show up to do an estimate for something for a larger company, and before I can even get to look at it, they are suggesting that I "could get on with them" Many franchise companys ,"franchisese"?, are from familys that used to own and operate companys in the same business, under there own names, but those situations are now also gone, with very very few people growing up in the family business anymore. So it's down to money people and advertisers, trying to puppet clueless jobby job kids into running serious businesses for nothing. what could go wrong?

AI has zero knowledge, as to know something is to have done it, or seen it first hand. AI has access to a great deal of data, much of it aquired through criminal action, but no way to evaluate that information other than cross checking for citations and similar occurances. Even for a human, infering things is difficult and uncertain, and so we regularly see AI fall of the cliff of cohearant word salading. We are heading strait at an idiocracy writ large that is trying to hide there raciorilgio insanity behind algorythims. Sometimes it's hard to tell, but it seems that a hairdresser has just been put in charge of the US passport office, which is highy sugestive of a new top level program to issue US citizenship on demand, but everbody else will be subject to the "impartiality" of privatly owned and operated AI policing.

yes,but you wont care.

then,

selling people a better understanding of why they find things valuable, is worth a lot!

we are designed to survive in a complex reality where threats and rewards are imediate, and the vast majority of decisions are governed by a pragmatism. our current reality is one where there the feedback mechanisms are broken, or self imposed, which is what I think you are getting at, but allas there have and are countless methods and techniques bieng tried to trigger an awareness of which thing needs to float to the top of our priority list, and how to follow through and realise that. The issue is that unlike our ancestors who faced common threats with the same resources, generation to generation, we are in an ever shifting threat/reward scape, that has been essentialy reduced to money, which is not "real", money is a construct and along with much else is arbitrary. the bottom line then becomes, dont hang your dreams on anything you cant pay for.

Interesting perspective. Let me try to share my thoughts on this.

You’re right that money is a huge barrier, and much of what holds people back can indeed be simplified down to money. However, I’ve spent eight years struggling with Asperger’s, depression, anxiety, and emotional disorders. Doctors tried every method and medication they could to save me, but nothing worked. I ended up inventing this model as a way to claw my way through when no one else—not my elders, friends, or therapists—could save me.

Regarding your point about decisions being governed by pragmatism: I’d argue that many existing psychological treatments just aren't pragmatic enough. If you’ve been through it, you realize one thing—it’s incredibly hard for the person suffering to actually believe the treatment will work. To be blunt, most methods don't hit the core. For any method to be effective, the individual has to be able to believe in it to keep going. That’s exactly why I used acting techniques to construct an "Organic Reality" that I could actually believe in.

As for rewards and threats being simplified into money: I can see that for rewards, but I think it’s a bit too reductive for threats. In my experience, threats also include loneliness, social isolation, and professional networking. Money might not even make up half of the "punishment" side of the equation. (Of course, everything is related to money in the end, but having a stable self at least gets you one step closer to those financial rewards.)

As for your final point, "don’t hang your dreams on anything you can’t pay for"—I’m not entirely sure what you meant by that originally, but I’ve spent a fortune on psychiatry and counseling (not to mention the hidden costs of transit and time). So, I figure having a stable mind and body might just save us both some money.

doge went in to crack the internal records of huge government silos, in order to leverage the inevitable evidence of wholsale,corruption, nepotism, vice, and illegal political involvments. and lo and behold, everybody lined up and is doing whatever tumpy says, which will be to hand over, most....but not all, of the stolen money, useing the same mechanisms to move it as before.

it is not possible to eliminate the risk from the absolute requirement to move heavy bulk stuff, through and in citys. roads need work, big things break and fail ,wherever they are, new stuff gets built, again, precisly, wherever, it gets built. civil engineering is completly mature,and wildly boreing,and will dry your eyes out. much of the cannon is millenia old, with fuck all room to "inovate" and what works in one place, is a total fail somewhere else. what is more is that the ancient world is littered with the ruins of civilisations and citys, that did fail, and in every case part or all of that failure was to overextend, undermaintain, there infrastructure, or worse, jump to some new flashy thing that then fails, spectacularly. having walked through those ruins, and marvled at there engineering and planning of infrastructure, and also become a keen reader of all things civil or infrastructure engineerin, and also aircraft engineering, where the most important concept is up front, "failure mode", I have no respect for sudden ideas, and approve of what China has done to prohibit un educated comentary on infrastructure development and implimentation. "influencer engineering" by way of "saftey"

they call AI "visual elevator music"

I call it intermitent wipers for everything.

reality is already 100% saturated, and we are optimised to function and create within the limits imposed.

take sugar, a white crystaine substance that can not be further concentrated, the only way to get a bigger neural bang is to go to another white crystaline substance, with more bang, and so on, till now we have substances where the bang is unsurvivable. this is reality, it applies to visual, auditory, and all of our senses and capabilities, total saturation......now, that does not mean that humans are not gready fucks who want more, more, more, but AI has to give us a greater ability to absorb, more, percieve more, survive more, not just a tired spin on shiny.

all matter in the universe carries a charge, so the list of potential battery materials candidates, is everything. also, everything that isnt something has energy passing through it, so even nothing, is usefull.