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← Previous segment →, but a two-parent situation because two is better than one. Having two people take care of you that are adults and love you, well it's got to be better than one if they're both functional. But I think we need to look at that a little bit deeper. It's too simplistic.
Rasmussen has a poll that says 48% of — these are usually likely voters — they poll 48% say Biden's handling of classified documents is a quote major scandal. I'll just give you a little quiz now for those who are on YouTube. If you're new to me, I've developed the smartest live stream audience in the world and I'm going to prove it again. Not only do they know based on what's happening and they're smart about that, they can actually see into the future and see data that hasn't even been presented to them. So I'm going to ask this question and watch how cleverly they get the right answer. They've never seen this information before. They've never seen this before. Watch this.
What percentage do you think, after the Rasmussen told them, what percentage of American voters, likely voters, do you think say that Biden's classified document situation is no scandal at all? No scandal at all. You did it again. Amazing. It's 24%. It's 24%. But you know those of you who guessed 25, that was really good. You just keep impressing me. Keep impressing me. I don't know how you do it. But 60% of voters believe it's likely the information from the classified documents was used by Hunter Biden in his foreign business deals. How in the world can Joe Biden win the presidency? How in the world? 60% believe that he and his son — and I'm going to add that they must think they're working as a team — 60% of voters think that they're selling classified information or it's likely that they're selling classified information to foreign entities. Isn't it over? How does Trump not become president?
You're seeing a lot of Trump criticism. A lot of it comes from me and I think it's deserved actually. But he still has to run against someone and I think it's going to be Biden. It looks like it's going to be Biden. How does Trump lose? The only way this goes is a rigged election. Am I wrong? I don't see anything else that can happen except a massively rigged election because there's no way that the powers that be are going to let Trump win again. I mean without at least trying really hard to influence it. No matter what you say about past elections, I'll just let past elections go by as a separate topic. No matter what's happened in the past, they're going to have to rig it this time. They have to. And you know what, if the Republicans lose a rigged election, you know what I say? Totally deserve it. And I will welcome our new Democrat president and I will congratulate him on the win. Because if the Republicans can't figure out how to achieve better or stop the cheating, they're not very capable. They're not very capable and they don't deserve to win. And I see no action from the Republicans to increase the transparency of the elections so that — you know, if it was you, at this point the Republicans deserve to lose. They're doing everything in their power to lose. The Republicans basically it doesn't even look like they're trying, honestly.
So there's a video going around that there was a presentation at the World Economic Forum and everything sounds scarier when it's at the World Economic Forum and this was extra scary. So there is now technology where you could put on some kind of a wearable device or an earbud that would monitor your brain waves. And the thinking is that employers will be able to know if you're thinking about work, if you're actually working and thinking about work, or if your mind has wandered to your personal thoughts. And they'll be able to play back your brain waves after the fact and say, all right, well about three o'clock, at three o'clock you were mostly just daydreaming about sex stuff, I guess. Now add to that that your employer can check your actual actions online. They can check your keystrokes and they might even know where you are physically. They might track your location. So your employer will know what you're thinking and what you're doing every minute of the day, roughly speaking. They'll know. So the thinking is that we'll become this mass dystopia with people just hooked into the Matrix, having to work all the time, and all their happiness and quality of life will be destroyed. And it's all the World Economic Forum's problem because they let somebody give a presentation in which the person who presented it said don't assume it'll be all bad.
It's pretty hard to hear this and then imagine it could be good in any way. But let me give you some context. When I got out of college I was looking for a job at a big bank. I went to work at what was Crocker National Bank at the time before Wells Fargo bought them. And it was when ATMs were just being rolled out. So ATMs were sort of a new thing. Not every bank had one yet, but Crocker was ahead of the curve. Do you know what the biggest debate was about ATMs? Do you know what the biggest controversy was? This technology will be out of control. It's going to steal my money and then when I complain nobody will listen to me because it's me against the computer. Right? And all the old people said you're going to lose your humanity because you don't get to talk to the teller. You won't be able to complain, blah blah.
Now did any of those things happen? A little bit, but not really. Not really. Yeah, I mean they happened but not to the point where it made any difference to the growth of ATMs. Right? And by the way, the rule in banks at the time was if you complained about the ATM stealing your money, if they didn't see it on video, like if they didn't have enough information, they gave you your money. If they couldn't prove it one way or the other, they actually just gave you your money. You know, because usually it was like 100 bucks, right? Somebody'd say, hey the ATM took my hundred dollars. And if they couldn't tell, they just gave you the hundred dollars because there was nothing else they could do. Otherwise they'd have to just get rid of ATMs. Now eventually the ATM keeps track of what it gives but it also has a video and the video would pretty much prove it if it dispensed something from you.
So whenever you see a new technology that looks like it's going to end all our quality of life, we've been through this cycle a lot. Now I will agree that this looks different. AI doesn't look like anything else. So anything that was in the past that looked like a pattern probably will be violated by AI. But it's good to know that we've been here before. We're always worrying about the next technology will be the one that ends us all.
And I have now an out-of-the-box prediction about AI. You know how AI was going to take all of our physical jobs first because you could build robots so the robots will take the dangerous physical jobs and then later the creative jobs. Those might stay intact because it would take a long time for AI to get there. It's going to be the opposite. I think AI will take all the smart jobs: coding, psychology, your therapist will be AI, art, all art, humor, entertainment is all going to be AI. Do you know what people will do? Manual labor. I think humans will be moved entirely to manual labor. Do you know why? Because it'd be cheaper than robots for a long time. That's all. They'll just be cheaper than robots. I think the economics will be that people will be cheap and robots will be expensive. So you use your expensive robots to be lawyers and doctors. And by the way AI has already passed the bar and AI has passed the medical licensing. It's already done that. It's already more educated than you are because it's got two degrees even if you have one. So yeah, humans are going to have to do stuff like crawl under floors to get to plumbing. Humans are going to be figuring out, oh wait, you know just because the wires don't touch there's also maybe rats or there's a human element. Yeah, people just be doing manual labor.
Now here's the interesting part. Do you know what makes humans happy? Doing manual labor. It turns out it makes us very happy. Yeah, as long as we're not working ourselves to death. Right? You don't want to be in a slave camp. You don't want to be in the gulag. But if you're just keeping busy, you know you're just moving, you're doing a thing, you complete a task, you get a dopamine for completin
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g a task. You're moving, you're completing tasks. It's actually really good for us. So we probably will become the manual laborers and the AI will do all the thinking for us. That's my prediction. So it was really puzzling even at this late stage is we still don't know why Sweden did so well in the pandemic. It's still a mystery. Now there are a few things we do know about Sweden. I found out and…
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