The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - ＂I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better＂ (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_813)

00:00:00.720 Hi everybody this is Gad Saad and working on suicidal empathy

00:00:06.800 I'm working on a section about you know climate

00:00:11.920 alarmism as a form of suicidal empathy and I came across

00:00:17.440 an essay that was written in 2016 by Ida Auken

00:00:22.720 A-U-K-E-N. I discussed her in another context 0.86

00:00:26.960 in that section but then I discovered this beauty

00:00:30.880 and I tell you it's something else so I'm going to just read it for you and

00:00:35.040 maybe interject some commentary so here you go this is from

00:00:39.200 the world economic forum it's titled welcome to 2030 I own nothing

00:00:46.240 have no privacy and life has never been better

00:00:50.400 it's by Ida Auken member of parliament parliament of Denmark of course

00:00:55.760 welcome to the year 2030 welcome to my city or should I say

00:01:00.000 our city I don't own anything I don't own a car I don't own a house

00:01:05.920 I don't own any appliances or any clothes by the way that's the beauty of

00:01:10.560 communism right we're all communal we all share

00:01:13.520 we're all equal it might seem odd to you but it makes

00:01:17.520 perfect sense for our for us in this city everything you

00:01:21.440 considered a product has now become a service we have access to transportation

00:01:26.240 accommodation food and all the things we need in our

00:01:29.680 daily lives one by one all these things become

00:01:33.120 free so it ended up not making sense for us to own much

00:01:37.440 you see there is a benevolent uh big brother

00:01:42.720 an Orwellian big brother that will make you all equal that will make everything

00:01:47.840 free just like in Canada everything is free as long as you're able to

00:01:52.960 take all the money that the successful people make and redistribute it to

00:01:57.120 everybody else then everybody is equal everything is free

00:02:04.240 first communication becomes digitized and free to everyone then when clean

00:02:08.720 energy became free things started to move quickly transportation dropped

00:02:13.200 dramatically in price it made no sense for us to own cars anymore

00:02:18.000 because we could all call a driveless vehicle or a flying car for longer

00:02:23.440 journeys within minutes we started transporting ourselves in a much more

00:02:27.520 organized and coordinated way when public transport became easier quicker

00:02:32.800 and more convenient than the car now i can hardly believe that we accepted

00:02:37.360 congestion and traffic jams not to mention the air pollution

00:02:41.200 from combustion engines what were we thinking

00:02:44.240 do you see how kind she is sometimes i use my bike when i go to see some of my

00:02:49.360 friends i enjoy the exercise and the ride

00:02:52.160 it kind of gets the soul to come along on the journey

00:02:55.520 funny how some things seem never some things never seem to lose their

00:03:00.480 excitement walking biking cooking drawing and growing plank

00:03:04.400 plants it makes perfect sense and reminds us of how our culture emerged

00:03:09.440 out of a close relationship with nature environmental problems seem so far away

00:03:15.600 in our city we don't pay rent any rent because someone else is using our free

00:03:21.120 space whenever we do not need it my living room is used for business

00:03:25.360 meetings when i'm not there you see how beautiful that is you don't own

00:03:28.880 your own house when you don't want to use your shower

00:03:33.360 other men can come use your shower you know to freshen up 0.99

00:03:37.520 and then they can have a business meeting it'll probably work and it probably

00:03:41.280 wouldn't be any issues of safety or you know rapes or anything like that

00:03:46.160 once in a while i will choose to cook for myself it is easy the necessary kitchen

00:03:51.120 equipment is delivered at my door within minutes

00:03:54.480 since transport becomes free we stopped having all those things stuffed into our home

00:03:59.360 why keep a pasta maker and a crepe cooker crammed into our cupboards we can just

00:04:04.720 order them when we need them this also made me break through of the

00:04:08.720 circular economy easier when products are turned into

00:04:12.240 services no one hasn't interested in things with a short lifespan

00:04:16.400 everything is designed for durability repairability and recyclability

00:04:21.120 the materials are flowing more quickly in our economy

00:04:24.320 and can be transformed to new products pretty easily

00:04:28.080 environmental problems seem far away since we

00:04:31.280 only use clean energy and clean production methods

00:04:35.120 the air is clean the water is clean and nobody would dare to touch the

00:04:39.200 protected areas of nature because they constitute such

00:04:42.320 value to our well-being in the cities we have plenty of green space

00:04:46.880 and plants and trees all over i still do not understand why in the past

00:04:51.120 we filled all our free spots in the city with concrete

00:04:54.640 the death of shopping shopping i can't really remember what that is for most of

00:05:00.480 us it has been turned into choosing things to use

00:05:03.440 sometimes i find this fun and sometimes i just want the algorithm to do it for me

00:05:08.160 it knows my tastes better than i do by now when ai and robots took over so much

00:05:13.920 of our work we suddenly had time to eat well sleep well and spend time with other

00:05:18.880 people the concept of rush hour makes no sense anymore since the work that we do

00:05:24.400 can be done at any time by the way you could do it in those

00:05:28.640 you know flexible homes where depending on whether you're taking a shower or

00:05:32.960 sleeping or not you can if you're not sleeping or taking a

00:05:36.400 shower then other men ahmad mahmoud and muhammad could come for the business

00:05:41.040 meetings and you know you can rotate the home so it'll all everybody shares the

00:05:45.680 space everybody shares their homes and i've also offered that you know this whole

00:05:51.120 thing of monogamy you know we are each other's only sexual partners is so 0.61

00:05:56.480 antiquated we can have a dating app where you could share access sexual access to

00:06:01.120 my wife and then vice versa you don't want homeless people to be sexless 1.00

00:06:05.920 you give your own wife and vice versa everybody shares in a shared economy it

00:06:12.480 makes sense you see she's she's enlightened she's empathetic she's

00:06:16.000 scandinavian she she comes from the same area as greta 1.00

00:06:19.680 tunberg so you know that she's got sechel as we say in hebrew

00:06:24.880 all right let's keep going

00:06:28.160 i don't really know if i would call it work anymore it is more like

00:06:32.000 thinking time creation time and development time

00:06:35.520 they live different kinds of lives outside of the city

00:06:39.120 for a while everything was turned into entertainment and people did not want to

00:06:43.200 bother themselves with difficult issues

00:06:45.600 it was only at the last minute that we found out how to use all these new

00:06:49.600 technologies for better purposes than just killing

00:06:52.800 time my biggest concern is all the people who do not live in our city 1.00

00:06:57.520 those we lost on the way those who decided that it became too much all this

00:07:01.920 technology those who felt obsolete and useless when robots

00:07:06.640 and ai took over big parts of our jobs

00:07:09.520 those who got upset with the political system and turned against it

00:07:13.520 they live different kind of lives outside of the city

00:07:16.800 some have formed little self-supplying communities

00:07:19.840 others just stayed in the empty and abandoned houses

00:07:23.120 and small 19th century villages this is coming from the world economic forum

00:07:27.760 people once in a while i get annoyed about the fact that i have no real

00:07:32.480 privacy nowhere i can go and not be registered i know that

00:07:37.840 somewhere everything i do think and dream of is recorded

00:07:42.240 i just hope that nobody will use it against me

00:07:46.160 of course nobody the government wouldn't use it against you if

00:07:49.680 they owned every single movement you make if there was no

00:07:53.600 personal property personal space personal car

00:07:57.920 uh probably nobody would misuse that power all in all it is a good life much

00:08:04.240 better than the path we are on where it became so clear

00:08:07.520 that we would not continue with the same model of growth

00:08:10.720 we had all these terrible things happening lifestyle diseases climate change

00:08:15.840 the refugee crisis environmental degradation i mean literally by the way 1.00

00:08:20.320 these are all the topics that i discuss in suicidal empathy

00:08:23.760 completely congested cities water pollution air pollution social unrest and

00:08:28.080 unemployment we lost too many people before we realized

00:08:32.640 that we could do things differently so that's the end of the article i'll put

00:08:37.440 the link to it and somebody should archive it i tried to archive it i wasn't able to

00:08:42.480 uh because i'm sure they'll take it down at some point

00:08:45.280 uh so ida auchin has proposed that there should be a sharing app so that you no

00:08:51.360 longer are allowed to own your car she's also argued that you shouldn't own your

00:08:56.320 own phone it just becomes a rotating thing you use any phone

00:09:00.240 you shouldn't have a personal home you cannot own a home i mean

00:09:07.280 i don't even think the communists have come up with such an orwellian kafka-esque

00:09:12.560 world so you just have an app and if you're not using your bedroom

00:09:17.040 or you know your shower as long as you make sure that your teenage daughter is

00:09:21.520 not in the house then you can just create an app where

00:09:25.040 business meetings can happen with a bunch of men just make sure that

00:09:29.440 it might be difficult and that you have to make sure that none of them are 0.67

00:09:32.240 recidivist child rapists or sexual predators but that should be easy to do 1.00

00:09:37.200 once you monitor everybody and so on 0.96

00:09:39.760 so this is uh what you get from people who are

00:09:43.200 perfectly decoupled from reality from human nature

00:09:48.000 from individual dignity we are all a collectivist

00:09:52.560 blob driven by one goal infinite empathy

00:09:58.480 have a good day everybody cheers

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - March 29, 2025

＂I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better＂ (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_813)

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