＂I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better＂ (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_813)
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Summary
In this episode, I read an essay written by Ida Auken from the World Economic Forum in 2016, titled "Welcome to 2030: I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better".
Transcript
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Hi everybody this is Gad Saad and working on suicidal empathy
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I'm working on a section about you know climate
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alarmism as a form of suicidal empathy and I came across
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in that section but then I discovered this beauty
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and I tell you it's something else so I'm going to just read it for you and
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maybe interject some commentary so here you go this is from
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the world economic forum it's titled welcome to 2030 I own nothing
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it's by Ida Auken member of parliament parliament of Denmark of course
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welcome to the year 2030 welcome to my city or should I say
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our city I don't own anything I don't own a car I don't own a house
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I don't own any appliances or any clothes by the way that's the beauty of
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communism right we're all communal we all share
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we're all equal it might seem odd to you but it makes
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perfect sense for our for us in this city everything you
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considered a product has now become a service we have access to transportation
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accommodation food and all the things we need in our
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free so it ended up not making sense for us to own much
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an Orwellian big brother that will make you all equal that will make everything
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free just like in Canada everything is free as long as you're able to
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take all the money that the successful people make and redistribute it to
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everybody else then everybody is equal everything is free
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first communication becomes digitized and free to everyone then when clean
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energy became free things started to move quickly transportation dropped
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dramatically in price it made no sense for us to own cars anymore
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because we could all call a driveless vehicle or a flying car for longer
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journeys within minutes we started transporting ourselves in a much more
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organized and coordinated way when public transport became easier quicker
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and more convenient than the car now i can hardly believe that we accepted
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congestion and traffic jams not to mention the air pollution
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do you see how kind she is sometimes i use my bike when i go to see some of my
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it kind of gets the soul to come along on the journey
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funny how some things seem never some things never seem to lose their
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excitement walking biking cooking drawing and growing plank
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plants it makes perfect sense and reminds us of how our culture emerged
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out of a close relationship with nature environmental problems seem so far away
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in our city we don't pay rent any rent because someone else is using our free
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space whenever we do not need it my living room is used for business
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meetings when i'm not there you see how beautiful that is you don't own
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your own house when you don't want to use your shower
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other men can come use your shower you know to freshen up
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and then they can have a business meeting it'll probably work and it probably
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wouldn't be any issues of safety or you know rapes or anything like that
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once in a while i will choose to cook for myself it is easy the necessary kitchen
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equipment is delivered at my door within minutes
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since transport becomes free we stopped having all those things stuffed into our home
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why keep a pasta maker and a crepe cooker crammed into our cupboards we can just
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order them when we need them this also made me break through of the
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circular economy easier when products are turned into
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services no one hasn't interested in things with a short lifespan
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everything is designed for durability repairability and recyclability
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the materials are flowing more quickly in our economy
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and can be transformed to new products pretty easily
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only use clean energy and clean production methods
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the air is clean the water is clean and nobody would dare to touch the
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protected areas of nature because they constitute such
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value to our well-being in the cities we have plenty of green space
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and plants and trees all over i still do not understand why in the past
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we filled all our free spots in the city with concrete
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the death of shopping shopping i can't really remember what that is for most of
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us it has been turned into choosing things to use
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sometimes i find this fun and sometimes i just want the algorithm to do it for me
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it knows my tastes better than i do by now when ai and robots took over so much
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of our work we suddenly had time to eat well sleep well and spend time with other
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people the concept of rush hour makes no sense anymore since the work that we do
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can be done at any time by the way you could do it in those
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you know flexible homes where depending on whether you're taking a shower or
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sleeping or not you can if you're not sleeping or taking a
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shower then other men ahmad mahmoud and muhammad could come for the business
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meetings and you know you can rotate the home so it'll all everybody shares the
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space everybody shares their homes and i've also offered that you know this whole
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thing of monogamy you know we are each other's only sexual partners is so
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antiquated we can have a dating app where you could share access sexual access to
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my wife and then vice versa you don't want homeless people to be sexless
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you give your own wife and vice versa everybody shares in a shared economy it
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makes sense you see she's she's enlightened she's empathetic she's
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scandinavian she she comes from the same area as greta
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tunberg so you know that she's got sechel as we say in hebrew
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i don't really know if i would call it work anymore it is more like
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thinking time creation time and development time
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they live different kinds of lives outside of the city
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for a while everything was turned into entertainment and people did not want to
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it was only at the last minute that we found out how to use all these new
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technologies for better purposes than just killing
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time my biggest concern is all the people who do not live in our city
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those we lost on the way those who decided that it became too much all this
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technology those who felt obsolete and useless when robots
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those who got upset with the political system and turned against it
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they live different kind of lives outside of the city
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some have formed little self-supplying communities
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others just stayed in the empty and abandoned houses
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and small 19th century villages this is coming from the world economic forum
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people once in a while i get annoyed about the fact that i have no real
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privacy nowhere i can go and not be registered i know that
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somewhere everything i do think and dream of is recorded
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of course nobody the government wouldn't use it against you if
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they owned every single movement you make if there was no
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uh probably nobody would misuse that power all in all it is a good life much
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better than the path we are on where it became so clear
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that we would not continue with the same model of growth
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we had all these terrible things happening lifestyle diseases climate change
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the refugee crisis environmental degradation i mean literally by the way
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these are all the topics that i discuss in suicidal empathy
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completely congested cities water pollution air pollution social unrest and
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unemployment we lost too many people before we realized
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that we could do things differently so that's the end of the article i'll put
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the link to it and somebody should archive it i tried to archive it i wasn't able to
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uh because i'm sure they'll take it down at some point
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uh so ida auchin has proposed that there should be a sharing app so that you no
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longer are allowed to own your car she's also argued that you shouldn't own your
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own phone it just becomes a rotating thing you use any phone
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you shouldn't have a personal home you cannot own a home i mean
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i don't even think the communists have come up with such an orwellian kafka-esque
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world so you just have an app and if you're not using your bedroom
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or you know your shower as long as you make sure that your teenage daughter is
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not in the house then you can just create an app where
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business meetings can happen with a bunch of men just make sure that
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it might be difficult and that you have to make sure that none of them are
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recidivist child rapists or sexual predators but that should be easy to do
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perfectly decoupled from reality from human nature
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from individual dignity we are all a collectivist