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In this high-stakes edition of Impact Theory, Tom Bilyeu takes the stage solo to confront one of the most urgent and transformative phenomena of our lifetime: the rise of artificial intelligence. With a trademark blend of hard data and compelling storytelling, Tom breaks down how rapidly AI is outperforming every previous technological shift—from electricity to the Internet—threatening millions of jobs and forcing an unprecedented global economic pivot.
In Part 1, Tom maps out the core economic upheaval caused by AI, revealing what makes certain jobs doomed for extinction while others remain resilient. Pulling lessons from the rise and fall of industry titans like Kodak and Adobe, Tom arms you with a crystal-clear framework for assessing whether your career is safe—or already on thin ice. Whether you’re worried about threats or searching for opportunity, this episode will help you see the seismic changes ahead and adapt to avoid being left behind.
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1:22 Tom Bilyeu? It took electricity 46 years to reach one quarter of American homes. The internet, seven years. Chat G P T did it in just five days. In 2023, more people talked to an A I than their doctor, lawyer, or therapist. And A I adoption is not slowing down. It is compounding at a staggering rate. OpenAI alone has a usage doubling rate of approximately six months. That's insane for a company of any size, but at their scale, that is practically unprecedented. This is once in history type stuff. This moment is for careers what a certain meteor was for the dinosaurs.
2:05 Tom Bilyeu? Entire Fortune 500 companies are already running divisions made of just. AI agents, replacing thousands of employees with a handful of algorithms. Jobs are dying off everywhere. Manufacturing has lost seventy eight thousand more jobs this year alone. In August, pharma cut nineteen thousand jobs, finance cut eighteen thousand, and that was just in one month. Big Oil, the backbone of the twentieth century prosperity, is planning twenty five percent workforce cuts by twenty twenty six. It's not like AI is just nibbling at the edges. Many companies report chatbots can already handle roughly eighty percent of frontline customer support queries.
2:50 Tom Bilyeu? That will inevitably carry over into law, accounting, trucking, and even things like journalism. Goldman Sachs projects three hundred million jobs worldwide will vanish to automation by twenty thirty. That's more than the entire US population. This is a turning point in human history that will be a crisis for many, but an opportunity for some, and I've laid out all of it in four parts, including a playbook for exactly what to do. And do not skip part three, as that is your detailed list for future-proofing your career. All right, let's get right into what's going on and how to position yourself to win. Welcome to part one.
3:34 Tom Bilyeu? What exactly makes a job safe or doomed? In twenty twenty three, PricewaterhouseCoopers found that nearly forty percent of all US jobs involve tasks that can already be automated by AI, and that was just two years ago. Imagine what that number is today. Harvey AI, a legal AI tool, is already being used by fifty of the world's largest firms to handle contract review and legal research. QuickBooks essentially put junior accountants out of work by delivering an AI bookkeeper that automatically categorizes expenses. And Salesforce's Einstein GPT is automating project management dashboards across most of the Fortune five hundred, cutting layers of middle management. Here
4:20 Tom Bilyeu? is the brutal truth. No matter how much time you spent studying, training, or outright doing the job, whether your current career will exist on the other side of the AI revolution or not, has nothing to do with how hard you work to gain your skills. It comes down to one simple test. Can AI or a robot do your job faster, cheaper, and better than you? If the answer is yes, just as electricity put lamplighters out of work, your job is going to go away. Before we get into the specifics of which jobs will last and which will fail, let's look at the underlying facts of what makes certain jobs vulnerable and others resilient. There is an underlying pattern, and once you understand it,
5:05 Tom Bilyeu? you'll be better positioned to react quickly to the inevitable surprises that are going to happen. A four-part pattern begins to emerge when you look at the jobs that are already being disrupted. One, predictable and repetitive work is the first to go. That's why data entry jobs are already evaporating, and why Goldman Sachs estimates up to 44% of legal work can be automated right now. Two, work that requires trust, creativity, or dexterity in the physical world are going to be much harder to replace. Robot plumbers will eventually happen, but that's going to be a long way down the road. Between the need for trust and the requisite dexterity for the job,
5:48 Tom Bilyeu? that one is going to be much harder to produce at scale. You're looking at similar timelines for jobs that require deep empathy and true human connection. So things like therapists and daycare workers will have a much longer timeline than something like an accountant. It is inevitable that AI and robotics will augment their education and safety capabilities, but outright replacement is unlikely to happen quickly. Three, government sector jobs where efficiency isn't a key metric. I hate actually including this one as it is a catastrophic waste of taxpayer dollars, but the truth is, much of government is centered around offering employment rather than focusing on innovation and efficiency.
6:28 Tom Bilyeu? It's somewhat inevitable that as AI puts more and more people out of work, the public sector is going to step in and try to hoover up some of that talent. And there will almost certainly be increased political division, but that presents its own set of risks. So that is a tomorrow problem. Four, the jobs that use AI directly, and even more importantly, the entrepreneurial opportunities that move higher up the stack to deliver proprietary solutions via AI. From biotech to advertising, this is the category of the future that offers the biggest mote for those looking to future-proof themselves. And we're going to get into more detail on this shortly, but think of it this way. There is a huge difference between being a nine-to-five mid-level designer
7:12 Tom Bilyeu? who can be replaced by mid-journey and a passionate solopreneur who builds an entire creative agency that deploys AI to service clients' creative needs. While this isn't exactly entrepreneurship in the classic sense of scaling a big company, it is what I think the future of most entrepreneurship is going to look like. This is a big part of the reason that I now teach lifelong employees how to launch their first business. It is self-evident to me that AI is going to force tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of people to do a gig, entrepreneurship hybrid, where they customize a set of AI tools for bespoke outcomes.
7:55 Tom Bilyeu? The best at this will make an absolute fortune, and everyone else will be stuck with their handout for some UBI, which I think will be soul-crushing and ultimately destabilizing at the societal level. But we'll talk more about that in another video. I want to plant one last flag. To all the content creators out there, I'll give an honorable mention to anyone who can build a true community based on personality and what's known as proof of humanity, the fact that you are a real person. But this is a super niche solution and probably warrants its own video, so right now I'm just going to give it a nod. The real dividing line between what lives and what dies will change over time and rapidly. Honestly, those who win in the future are going to...
8:37 Tom Bilyeu? Be those that have the ability to adapt quickly. As the famous adage goes, it's not the strongest that survive nor the most intelligent, but rather the most adaptive to change. The stark reality is that it's the rate of change with AI that people are going to find the most dizzying. The key will be to avoid the obvious things that will be automated early and pick a career that both embraces AI and is likely to need a human for a very long time. In a world where everything is changing quickly, there is no sense in making your life even harder than it needs to be by being shortsighted. And no story shows how devastating being shortsighted can be
9:21 Tom Bilyeu? than the tale of two famous photography companies, Kodak and Adobe. Kodak wasn't just a photography company, it was photography itself. At their peak, they controlled 90% of the US film market and employed over 140,000 people worldwide. And here's the kicker, one of their own engineers built the first digital camera prototype back in 1975. He showed it to management and they literally laughed. They told him not to talk about it again because it threatened their film business. Instead of embracing the future that they literally helped invent, they buried it. They doubled down on what they knew, film. And for a while, it looked like the right move.
10:07 Tom Bilyeu? The film business was still massively profitable. And by 1996, Kodak was valued at a staggering $28 billion. But then the digital wave hit full force and eventually camera phones exploded and Kodak's core business evaporated almost overnight. By 2012, Kodak filed for bankruptcy. What they failed to recognize is the relentless inevitability of technological progress. Do not make that mistake. It stops for nothing. Adobe understood that and went the opposite direction. Instead of protecting their past, they did everything that they could to disrupt themselves. When generative AI landed, they didn't fight it.
10:50 Tom Bilyeu? They launched Firefly, baking AI directly into Photoshop, Illustrator, and Creative Cloud. Instead of watching their customers flee to AI startups, Adobe is fighting to establish itself as the home for AI-powered creativity. So far, it's worked. Since 2020, their stock has grown nearly five-fold. This is two stories from the same industry, but two very different approaches to change. And that's exactly the choice that all of us are facing right now in our careers. You can cling to the skills that worked yesterday, or you can adapt and try to disrupt yourself. One path ends in extinction, the other in growth. Now, whatever you do, do not just stand around waiting until 2030
11:35 Tom Bilyeu? to see which jobs make it through the revolution, because by then, it's going to be too late. The first wave of AI is already hitting the shore. If you haven't already reacted, you've missed that wave. Retail, hospitality, manufacturing, oil, finance, even some government jobs are already being replaced. You need to act now while you still have an early adopter advantage. Hold tight, we're going to take a quick break. There's a reason Quince sells cashmere for $60, and it isn't the cashmere. It's real 100% Mongolian cashmere. It's the same stuff luxury labels charge a fortune for. Quince just works directly with ethical factories and cuts out the middleman.
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14:25 Tom Bilyeu? All right, let's pick up where we left off. So, welcome to part two. Jobs that are already dead or in decline. Since 2020, the number of cashiers in the US has fallen by over 350,000 as self checkout and AI powered point of sale systems take over. Even in fast food, AI is already gutting employment. Wendy's new AI ordering system handles 86% of all orders without the need for human intervention. McKinsey projects by 2030, nearly one third of US workers will need to switch occupations because their current role no longer exists. The dominos are already falling.
15:08 Tom Bilyeu? Retail and hospitality are at high risk. More and more hotels are experimenting with replacing concierges with AI assistance and automated check-in. Manufacturing, we've already talked about that, falling off a cliff. Offshoring was once the biggest problem, but now the new problem is automation. Dock workers and the like are actively trying to stop it with strikes and moronic demands, but the reality is that what can be automated will be automated. High-paying, white-collar jobs, once thought untouchable, are proving to be on the chopping block with everything else. Oil and resource extraction is already seeing a decline. Chevron and BP are planning 25% workforce cuts by 2026.
15:52 Tom Bilyeu? While energy as a sector has a massive future that we're going to talk about, it will look different than the past. The common denominator across all of these industries that are at risk is very simple. They run on patterns. And AI at its core is a hyper sophisticated pattern recognition machine. Given enough data, AI can spot a pattern virtually anywhere a pattern exists, and it can do it much faster and more accurately than any human could ever dream of. That's why the first wave of jobs to disappear are going to be the ones that follow predictable workflows. Cashiers, customer support reps, data entry clerks, paralegals reviewing contracts, accountants
16:37 Tom Bilyeu? categorizing expenses. These are the types of jobs that are extremely vulnerable and in fact are already being hollowed out. Nobody understands that better than Elon Musk, who is at the frontier of AI. At Tesla, Elon made the very controversial call to reject LiDAR, the expensive laser-based 3D mapping system other companies have invested so heavily in. Instead, Tesla cars use cameras and neural networks to recognize, you guessed it, patterns in the world and driver behavior, the same way that humans do. Lane markings, stop signs, merging cars, they all follow repeat
17:17 Tom Bilyeu? rules and Tesla is a data collection juggernaut. They have now logged billions of miles of real world driving data to train those models. The more miles Tesla's drive, the better the system gets at predicting what comes next. The same logic drove Elon's purchase of X, formerly Twitter. It wasn't just about owning a social network. It was about owning the world's largest stream of raw human behavior. Hundreds of millions of people posting short bursts of text, images and reactions every day. It's one of the richest data sets for training AI to recognize patterns in language, sentiment and social interaction.
18:01 Tom Bilyeu? Tesla teaches machines to read the road, X teaches machines to read the crowd. Both strategies are built on the same bet. Pattern recognition is enough. And here's a terrifying implication. Your job is just another data set of human patterns. Filing insurance claims, a pattern. Processing invoices, a pattern. Resolving customer complaints, a pattern. Even diagnosing patients from symptoms and scans, it's all just pattern recognition. If Elon is willing to bet Tesla's future on cameras and pattern recognition instead of lasers and 3D mapping, you should take heed. If patterns can replace a human driver hurdling down the freeway at 70 miles an hour,
18:47 Tom Bilyeu? then patterns can absolutely replace you sitting at a desk. And that's exactly what's happening. The next wave is inevitable. Truck drivers as autonomous fleet scale, journalists and content mills drowned out by AI-generated articles and slop, large swaths of law and finance automated and entire layers of middle management wiped out by AI dashboards. It's not science fiction, it's the physics of AI. Machines don't need to think like us to replace us. They just need enough data to see the patterns that we can't. And the more data they get from your job, your car, your tweets and Everything else we kick off simply by living our lives and doing our jobs,
19:32 Tom Bilyeu? the faster they learn. That's why pattern-based jobs are dying. And by 2030, entire categories of work we once thought essential will simply no longer exist. So start planning now for part three, the jobs of the future. AI is causing a lot of panic right now, but consider this. In the 1800s, entire towns relied on knocker-uppers. I cannot believe that's what they were called, but it is. People paid to walk the streets and tap on windows with long sticks to wake workers up for their shifts. Alarm clocks came along and poof, they were out of work. Before refrigeration, cities employed thousands of ice cutters,
20:15 Tom Bilyeu? men who saw giant blocks of ice from frozen lakes and hauled them into warehouses. Fridges killed that job, but also spawned the modern cold chain logistics industry that employs millions today. The industrial revolution wiped out handloom weavers who couldn't compete with textile machines and a whole lot more. But it also created hundreds of thousands of jobs in factories, shipping, and global trade that simply didn't exist before. This is known as creative destruction. While I expect that will be very cold comfort for anyone who dedicated years of their life to mastering a skill that's just gonna go away. Here's the point. For every job that disappears, entire new categories will emerge.
20:59 Tom Bilyeu? Electricity may have killed lamplighters, but it created electricians, radio operators, computer engineers, and the entire modern tech sector. There are inevitably going to be many incredible things on the horizon for those willing to adapt. For instance, cybersecurity spending is projected to hit $200 billion annually by 2030. Demand for AI and machine learning specialists has surged by 75% just since 2020, and LinkedIn says it's now the fastest-growing job category worldwide. And even if you're not that tech savvy, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics projects The jobs for wind turbine technicians will grow by forty-five percent this decade,
21:43 Tom Bilyeu? making it one of the fastest-growing jobs in America. In healthcare, AI-driven drug discovery has cut development timelines from six years to eighteen months, opening the door to millions of new biotech jobs. And here's the kicker: Upwork reports freelancers with AI skills earn forty percent more on average than their peers. Proof that the winners aren't just giant companies, they're individuals who learn to wield these tools. Now, here's a sector-specific breakdown of where the data points that human jobs are going to thrive the longest. One: AI builders and architects. As mentioned, demand for AI and machine learning specialists is going to continue to climb.
22:25 Tom Bilyeu? It's already surging, and LinkedIn ranks it as the fastest-growing job category worldwide. Just like during the Industrial Revolution, the most future-proof jobs were in factories and ancillary jobs tied to industrial manufacturing like shipping. Today, as AI bears down on our familiar economy, the best place to seek refuge is in AI itself. And it's not all just PhD-level engineers. We're already seeing the rise of novel jobs like prompt architects, people who understand how to coax the best outputs from AI models, which can be shockingly fickle, going from absolute trash to unbelievable simply by modifying the prompt.
23:07 Tom Bilyeu? It's a strange new skill set, to be sure, but it's quickly becoming a career in its own right. Also, at least for now, there is a huge gap between the baseline output of AI and a completed project. As a game developer, I can tell you right now, this gap is massive. So while AI has sped us up dramatically and lowered our costs dramatically, we still need humans to move game assets through the pipeline, as right now, there's no one solution to rule them all. This creates huge opportunities for employees and vendors to make themselves indispensable by mastering the tools and filling in the gaps where AI currently fails. The specifics of where the gaps are are going to
23:47 Tom Bilyeu? Change rapidly, but an adaptable person will remain useful for years to come. Two, cybersecurity and AI safety. As AI grows more powerful, so do the risks. Cybersecurity spending is projected to hit $200 billion annually by 2030. Companies, governments, even hospitals are scrambling to defend against AI-driven hacks and deepfake scams. Then, there's AI safety itself. AI will not accidentally be benevolent. It will need human intervention to ensure that it remains a tool and not a slave master. There will be huge demand for people who can figure out how to align, regulate, and safeguard these systems now and into the future as the landscape evolves.
24:32 Tom Bilyeu? Three, energy, clean energy and climate tech. Not every future-proof job is digital. As mentioned earlier, jobs like wind turbine technician are already growing rapidly. Also, if China has any indication, solar energy is going to be a ginormous sector that will account for a massive amount of our energy production in future years. From design, installation, distribution, and maintenance, this will likely become a huge sector in its own right. And while I don't expect nuclear to grow as much as solar, that too will almost certainly be a part of not only meeting the energy demands of AI itself, but meeting green standards without blowing out the cost of living.
25:16 Tom Bilyeu? AI is already being used to optimize energy grids, predict equipment failures, and even design better batteries. The energy sector is going to continue to boom. And given the global obsession with climate and the central role that energy in general is going to play in building the world of abundance that everyone is counting on AI for, this is an industry that one would do well to consider. Four, healthcare and biotech innovators. Most people want to live forever, or at least live a long and healthy life. And as they say, "A healthy man has many dreams, but a sick man has but one." Healthcare has been absolutely gagging for the kind
25:57 Tom Bilyeu? of massive dataset pattern recognition that is only now possible with AI. And as such, AI will for sure lead the way on healthcare advancements. There will be copious amounts of money flowing into the sector in the hopes of mapping how the human body actually works and discovering new drugs and breakthrough cures. And so far, AI isn't so much replacing doctors and researchers as it is arming them with superpowers. For instance, AI and robotics is allowing doctors to perform surgeries remotely over the internet. Now, it is obviously early days, but this is an area ripe for the creation of a slew of currently unimaginable new jobs.
26:39 Tom Bilyeu? Five entrepreneurs and solopreneurs who leverage AI. Here's where the biggest hidden opportunity lies. You don't need to be a Fortune 500 CEO to win. Individuals who learn to wield AI as leverage are already outpacing entire teams. Some one-person businesses are now able to deliver what used to take agencies of 10 or 20 people. The future isn't just about working for AI-powered companies. It's about using AI yourself to build on your own. Whether that's a design studio, a niche SaaS app, an e-commerce store, or even a YouTube channel, the barrier to entry has collapsed. The leverage that AI gives is unprecedented.
27:24 Tom Bilyeu? To round this all out and be a little more exhaustive, here are some additional categories that are likely to thrive in a fully AI-enabled world, where humans oversee, augment, or provide irreplaceable elements like empathy, judgment, and physicality. According to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report in 2025, PWC's 2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer, Microsoft's Occupational AI Impact Study, McKinsey's analysis, and U.S. Career Institute's list of AI-proof jobs. In addition to the things I've already mentioned, the categories that are likely to remain viable in the face of AI are skilled trades in maintenance. So think electricians, mechanics, construction workers, things that require physical dexterity.
28:07 Tom Bilyeu? And onsite problem solving, things where humans are likely to desire connection with another human. So think mental health and social services, counselors, social workers, roles like that are already showing signs of 27% growth. AI can handle the admin for sure, but so far, the human connection leaves people wanting. This may change over time as people grow more accustomed to dealing with and trusting AI, but odds are that proof of humanity is going to remain desirable for a long time here, especially for jobs that interface with people that grew up before AI. Robotics and engineering will also be resilient, as will agricultural equipment operators, designing and maintaining AI hardware, and you can expect a boom in farming and green tech. And while not
28:52 Tom Bilyeu? exactly a high-powered career, the creative and performing arts are likely to do well, given the odds that proof of humanity will likely be valued. Choreographers, artists, performers, storytellers are all likely to hold on to at least niche appeal. Despite a high probability that mid and low-tier creativity is going to get crowded out by AI creations and outright slop, top-tier creators will continue to thrive, given that some subset of people are going to reject AI creations outright and prefer instead proof of humanity. So while millions of jobs are going away, millions more are going to be born. And the key commonality?
29:32 Tom Bilyeu? These categories are sectors, like energy, where the mere use of AI will require massive expansion of the sector itself, or where a human obsession is met, like longevity or green energy, or where there is human-AI symbiosis. For instance, where AI handles the patterns, but humans remain to provide the oversight and creativity. A combination that, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, has led to an average of 3X revenue growth in AI-exposed sectors and a 56% wage premium for skilled workers. Alright, now that we've got a detailed map of where the job landscape is headed as AI takes over the world, let's put it all together into a playbook of how to move forward well. Hang tight, we'll be back in
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31:27 Tom Bilyeu? So, welcome to part four, the playbook for winning in the age of AI. 200 years ago, over 70% of Americans worked in agriculture. Today, it's less than 2%. Entirely new industries absorbed everybody else. In the 1990s, there were zero web developers. Today, there are over 23 million worldwide. Since 2000, smartphone adoptions has created an app economy worth over $6 trillion. 15 years earlier, no one even knew what an app was. Every wave of disruption wipes out jobs, no doubt, but it also creates entirely new categories and new opportunities for not just employment,
32:09 Tom Bilyeu? but for wealth creation for the people willing to learn and adapt. It absolutely breaks my heart that we have taught multiple generations to be mad about their lot in life instead of doing something about it. That is so disempowering. So, consider this section my attempt to jolt you back into the driver's seat. I'm not saying that you shouldn't be mad as hell about the state of the economy. You should. Our current economic deck is stacked against the young, but the only thing that will make it worse... Is resigning to it. There are steps that you can take even during this AI fueled time of massive disruption and win while others panic. Here are the steps.
32:52 Tom Bilyeu? Step one, audit your job and adapt. We've gone into great detail here about the future of the jobs market because having a stable, future-proof job is the safest bet. I get that, especially if you have family or even just debt. So start there. Get brutally honest about your current position. Apply the AI test. Is your work predictable, repetitive, or reducible to patterns? If the answer is yes, don't panic, but put together an immediate action plan to get somewhere safer. Jobs that lean heavily on trust, dexterity, empathy, and/or proof of humanity have much longer timelines. Anything tied to AI itself, a growing industry, or a future-facing human obsession like biotech
33:35 Tom Bilyeu? and clean energy are also great places to consider. Regardless of what avenue you head down though, start mastering AI in any and all relevant ways to your chosen profession. The key is to move early because waiting until the layoff notice hits is like waiting to buy flood insurance after the hurricane has already hit. Step two, build a path to wealth. Build a path to wealth. Once your basic needs are met with a J O B, it is time to focus on building wealth. Jobs are always going to be volatile. Learn to control your destined knee through the following three pillars. Pillar one, become a builder. Modern entrepreneurship with AI leverage.
34:18 Tom Bilyeu? A fidelity study found that 88% of millionaires are self-made, but there's a catch. Almost all of them got there by building businesses or investing in assets, not by climbing the corporate ladder. Futurist Peter Diamandis constantly reminds people that the surest way to predict the future is to invent it. The same is true with jobs. The surest way to ensure you always have a job is to create it through entrepreneurship. Now, look, I know not everybody is made for this route, but I believe AI will make the rate of change so extreme that many will be forced to create their own jobs just to stay gainfully employed. Remember, no one's coming to save you. And wealth has historically been built by creating businesses.
35:03 Tom Bilyeu? Rockefeller, Carnegie, Musk, Jobs, Bezos. All of them got rich by building. If you have the stomach for it, prepare now. The leverage that AI gives you is insane. Just look at AI native startups like Jasper or Synesthesia, scaling to over $100 million in annual recurring revenue in just two to three years. Or the 20 something year old who raised $25 million for his AI startup. If you just can't bear to build something on your own, then try pillar two. A side hustle for cash flow resilience. Being an entrepreneur can be overwhelming. Trust me, I know that fact intimately.
35:46 Tom Bilyeu? But in the AI age, a side hustle takes less time and can pay off more than ever. At least right now, in this window where most people still aren't taking AI seriously enough, you have an opportunity to get first mover advantage. Freelancers today have the opportunity to use AI to outproduce entire teams working without it. YouTube creators are also scaling their content output with AI workflows, hitting audiences at a speed the old guard just cannot match. And whether you do pillars one and two, or have a reaction to them that's so severe you sit them both out, there is absolutely no excuse for not doing pillar three.
36:27 Tom Bilyeu? Pillar three is where I get tyrannical because it is lunacy to not do it. It is literal financial suicide to not do pillar three. Here it is. Pillar three, own assets. Over the last 200 years, US stocks have returned an average of 6.5% per year above inflation. No job can match that kind of compounding. Einstein is often quoted as saying, "Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it earns it. He who doesn't pays it." Whether he actually said it or not is moot. It's a true statement. And if you don't own assets, the government will steal your purchasing power through inflation. I've covered this topic extensively.
37:12 Tom Bilyeu? So click here if you want a full video just on this principle. Now, as a quick primer, you don't have to get fancy. Simply consistently investing in the S and P 500 for a couple of decades has allowed millions of people to turn relatively small amounts of money into life-changing wealth. You don't have to invest a lot, but you do have to invest consistently and for the long term. Otherwise, every single day, your money is becoming worth less and less. In the AI age, this doesn't change. If anything, it becomes more critical because in times of great uncertainty, ownership remains the surest thing. Governments will continue to deficit spend and print money. And as long as that's the case,
37:56 Tom Bilyeu? you absolutely must own assets to escape the damage of inflation. All right, in conclusion, it's time to pick a side, extinction or evolution. AI is not a fad. It is already changing our world faster than anything that's come before, by orders of magnitude. And it's only going to get faster. Change will truly be the only constant. It will do you no good to lament over the death of the old world. Technological progress is unstoppable, and it doesn't care how long you've worked, how much you've studied, or how nostalgic you are for what used to be. It cares only about one thing. Can you produce outcomes that AI can't?
38:40 Tom Bilyeu? You have to find a path to answering that question, yes. Even if in the final analysis, that becomes impossible, it's not impossible today. Therefore, anyone who quits out of fear will get devoured by those more resilient and adaptable.
38:56 Tom Bilyeu? Then the people who stand still, long before AI puts you out of work, standing still will see you gobbled up. You've seen the map now. You know the rules. Easy to identify patterns equals peril. Trust, dexterity, empathy, human obsessions and areas where people will care about proof of humanity equal a longer timeline. Don't worry about perfectly mapping the future. It's changing way too rapidly for that. Just focus on being directionally correct. Audit your job, adapt your skills, execute on both stabilizing your immediate economic needs while building a long-term path to wealth via assets and ownership. This isn't about hype. It's about physics.
39:41 Tom Bilyeu? The physics of AI, the physics of money, the physics of progress, the physics of compounding, the physics of progress and change themselves. Consider this the starting gun for a race that goes something like this. Week one, run the AI test in your career. If it fails, pick a pivot lane. Month one, enroll in one course, master one AI tool and buy your first share of an index fund. Month three, ship one offer, start freelancing, deliver a product or service using AI as much as possible, no matter what you do. Month six, raise your prices, automate what you can and increase your rate of investment into assets. By the end of year one, look back and realize you didn't just stand still or panic like
40:25 Tom Bilyeu? the vast majority of humanity is going to do. You read the room and adjusted while everyone else drowned in a tsunami of AI-driven change. Now, that's obviously a gross oversimplification, but it's directionally correct. And for now, that's enough. Every disruption in history crowned a new class of winners. The difference now is speed. What used to take decades will happen in months. Which means the distance between where you are and where you want to be has never been shorter. You just have to move and move now. The meteor is screaming towards Earth. Find cover now. Extinction or evolution is a choice.
41:06 Tom Bilyeu? Remember, the event that killed the dinosaurs gave rise to the age of mammals because we were the most adaptive to change. Audit, adapt, build, own, start today. All right, if you guys want to see me explore ideas like this live, be sure to join me on YouTube live at 6 a.m. Pacific time, Wednesdays and Fridays. Until then, my friends, be legendary. Take care, peace. Let's talk about a pattern that is guaranteed to be killing your progress. You know what you need to do. You need consistent nutrition. We all do. You need vitamins, probiotics, greens. We all know that we should be doing more of it. When your morning gets chaotic, you skip it. When you travel, you skip it.
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