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Jan. 29, 2025 - The David Knight Show
16:09
Shocking Revelations: Tycoon's Plan to Plunge Your Wages into Oblivion!
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Well, it crashed the stock market.
I don't know, but the intention of these people is to crash your wages.
That's putting it a different way.
I mean, they've always talked about how the purpose of AI is to take your job.
AI and robotics.
As I've mentioned so many times, Travis Kalalnik, the CEO at the time of Uber, said the reason that car and that taxi drive is expensive is because that other dude in the car were going to get rid of him.
And they want to get rid of everybody, frankly.
They don't want any of us to have jobs.
They want to sideline everyone and control everyone.
It's just amazing to me the mindset of this and how people are not really focused on it.
And so you've got Marc Andreessen, who has made some interesting and candid confessions.
Talking about how the Biden administration told him, don't get into AI. We're not going to allow you to do that.
You can't close that off.
That's a field of science.
It's like, oh, we've done that before with many different fields of science and physics.
He says, well, that's kind of interesting.
Not good, but interesting.
And then he was laughing about Larry Fink and all of his ESG nonsense.
And then he says this.
Mark Andreessen.
Founder of a massive venture capital firm, and of course he made all of his money initially in Netscape.
Remember that?
The first internet browser?
He gave his, what he calls, techno-optimist vision of the future.
And he is one of the technocrats.
In a recent tweet, he casually proclaimed that AI must, quote, crash everyone's wages before it can deliver us an economic utopia.
One that will definitely happen and certainly not create a permanent underclass of have-nots, says Futurism.
Here is the exact quote of what he wrote on X or Twitter.
He said, A world in which human wages crash from AI, logically necessary, is a world in which productivity growth goes through the roof and prices for goods and services crash to near zero.
These guys will still get their money though, right?
So in other words, everything, all the wages for us go to zero.
Net zero.
So we've got now net zero energy, net zero emissions, net zero food, net zero wages.
You'll own nothing and you'll be happy, right?
These people, however, will have all of those things.
They'll have their own private jets and their own private power grid.
Power plants, whether they're nuclear reactors or natural gas or coal, they'll have their own power.
That'll be separate from that old grid, you know, that old infrastructure that Trump talked about.
He said, that old infrastructure.
It's really old, that electric grid.
It's vulnerable to a lot of different things.
You don't want that.
You want to have your own power grid that's right there next to your manufacturing plant or your AI nonsense.
That's what you want.
And we don't want the people to have power.
That's the implication of this.
Andreessen continues, he says, Consumer cornucopia.
Everything you need and want for pennies.
But they own it all, and they'll collect all the pennies.
So, Futurism says, So fret not, lowly laborer.
You may be destined for financial ruin, but paradise is right around the corner.
Pinky promise.
Mm-hmm.
They say Andreessen's tweet is a revealing example of the ruthless economic logic that underlies tech moguls' utopic visions.
Let's just call it the technocracy.
Their vision of the future.
In which progress is a foregone conclusion, rendering everyone's economic suffering and interim merely a means to an end.
Like an overzealous fitness instructor, they always choose to emphasize the need for pain to achieve anything.
Well, he may call himself an unapologetic capitalist, but look, he's what George Gilder called a neo-Marxist.
He believes that their technology and their brains are going to create a world of infinite physical materialism, and all they have to do is redistribute it.
But, of course, they're going to redistribute it all to themselves.
So it always works with Marxism.
They promise they're going to do everything for the masses.
Of course, we've never had Karl Marx or Lenin make such extraordinarily absurd claims.
That they're going to take everything from you.
But, of course, that is necessary.
In order for them to give you everything in the world that they promise, they always first have to take everything from you, as Gerald Ford pointed out.
Mark Andreessen is the author of a book of The Techno-Optimist Manifesto.
No, it's a Neo-Marxist Manifesto.
That's what technocracy is.
Amongst other things, it has Marxist influences, it has certainly totalitarian and tyrannical influences, where everything operates for their benefit, right?
So the way Aristotle defined a technocracy, and of course by, you know, and he says a technocracy, he said a tyranny has the worst aspects of an oligarchy and a democracy.
An oligarchy, they just...
They do everything so they can enrich themselves.
And a democracy, or as we're looking at now, this kind of merger between the oligarchs and the populist mob.
Isn't it interesting how history doesn't repeat, but it certainly does rhyme.
You had the tyrants in Marxism, the people like Lenin and Stalin and other people.
And then they had the people who were their supporters on the street.
The French Revolution, Robespierre, the rest of the people.
The mob who didn't have anything and was going to have even less after these people got in place.
And now what do you have?
You've got the populist mob out there, including conservatives who ought to know better.
And they're not cheering the rule of law.
They're not cheering tradition, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution.
They're not cheering any of that stuff.
No, they're just cheering their oligarch leaders.
Hey, these billionaires can save us.
And don't worry.
They're altruistic billionaires.
They're benevolent billionaires.
Now, these are billionaires who are fighting tooth and nail to become trillionaires.
And they do that by taking every last thing away from us.
But it's that connection between the mobocracy, the mob at the bottom, now a bunch of populists as well as leftists, that mob at the bottom allied with the oligarchs at the top.
And what we get out of this is technocratic tyranny.
That's been the plan for a long time.
Now you go back and look at Zbigniew Brzezinski, advisor who actually ran the Jimmy Carter White House, I believe, created the Trilateral Commission, and he wrote a book, Between Two Ages, talking about the coming technocratic age.
He did that 50-plus years ago.
So we're going to know everything that everybody does before they do it, and we're going to control everything that everybody does.
I mean, it's one of the first layouts of this technocratic nightmare.
Somehow, none of these AI evangelists' optimistic visions include immediately improving people's lives in a meaningful way, or any foreground measures to mitigate tech's massively disruptive potential to the job market, except perhaps with broad gestures to universal basic income.
An idea that Andreessen, ever the unapologetic capitalist, happens to hate, he said.
Well, there's a difference between him and Elon Musk.
Elon Musk embraces universal basic income.
As a matter of fact, he had this to say about it.
What to do about mass unemployment.
This is going to be a massive social challenge.
And I think ultimately we will have to have some kind of universal basic income.
I don't think we're going to have a choice.
Universal basic income?
Universal basic income.
I think it's going to be necessary.
So it means that unemployed people will be paid across the globe?
Yeah.
Because there is no job?
A machine, a robot is taking over?
There will be fewer and fewer jobs that a robot cannot do better.
Okay.
That's right.
Fewer and fewer jobs.
Well, not a robot can do it better or not.
So, he says, Andreessen says that universal basic income would turn us into zoo animals.
He's right about that, actually.
He's right about that.
That's the intention Yuval Harari stated it.
You know, hey, just stay in your cubicle, you know, like Ready Player One.
Play your video games, watch your pornography, and we'll send you some money every once in a while, and a little bit of food, but we'll tell you what you can eat.
And yet, Elon Musk has been one of the key supporters, as I've pointed out many times, along with Bloomberg.
Elon Musk giving over a million dollars to this unknown guy, Andrew Yang, to push universal basic income back in 2020. Going back to futurism, it says, above all, many of these ultra-rich tech types, like Andreessen, Can't help but publicly fantasize about punishing the poor.
Larry Ellison, for example, co-founder of the software outfit Oracle, drooled about how AI would supercharge the surveillance state ensuring that, quote, citizens will be on their best behavior.
Remember that?
And these people are coming from a leftist perspective.
Why isn't it that we don't have more people on the conservative side worried about this?
Well, it's because Trump is joining these people.
So now they're good.
All these people that conservatives used to dislike, all these people like Elon Musk, who pushed the climate change stuff as much as Bill Gates, but now he's good.
He's a good guy.
When asked in an interview about AI killing creative jobs, OpenAI's former chief technology officer suggested that those jobs, quote, shouldn't have been there in the first place.
Andreessen seems to justify his disdain toward workers.
By claiming that many of them are America-hating communists.
Well, if he's going to crash human wages, what is he, really?
You know, I'm anti-communist.
I hate the leftists.
I'm an ultra-capitalist.
And I'm going to take everything that you've got.
He's a technocrat.
They're infiltrating companies.
He said they're destroying companies from the inside out.
That's why he talks about ESG. But can't we see where this is as well?
Folks, we're going to have to figure out.
You know, the public needs to educate itself on the different aspects of fascism.
It isn't some kind of a hand salute, okay?
It's about the merger of government and business.
We need to educate ourselves on fascism, on communism, on free markets.
Call it free markets instead of capitalism.
Because when I think of capitalism, I think of crony capitalism now.
Because that has been the dominant form of capitalism most of my life, but especially now.
The public-private partnerships.
That PPP down your back and tell you it's raining.
We need to figure out what's going on.
People need to educate themselves very quickly.
About technocracy and how it has pulled elements of communism, fascism, but it's a totalitarian system.
About a hundred years ago, it was really coalescing.
With such seething contempt toward their employees, they said it makes sense why all the richest people in the world are suddenly throwing ungodly amounts of money at technology to automate the jobs of the rank and file.
Well, Trump says AI is so important that he's going to build new power plants attached to the data centers.
That's what he was doing with Davos Forum last week.
I played that for you.
And then he jumps in and cheers Stargate.
And these people all wind up with egg on their face talking about how, oh, this is going to be big.
It's so huge.
It's going to be half a trillion dollars.
So look at us.
Look at how powerful we are.
Look at how smart we are because we've got all that money.
And then you find out.
Then they get deep-seeked.
So it's been an interesting couple of days when we look at this.
But after deep-seek, Trump responds because it made them look pretty stupid, as I said.
Elon Musk is like, I don't know, you don't have enough money.
I've got the money to do this.
And it can only be done with astronomical amounts of money, right?
Well, not true now.
Not true.
So, Trump says, oh yeah, you know, being able to do this at a low cost, that's a really positive development.
Instead of spending billions and billions, you'll spend less, and you'll come up with hopefully the same solution, and that's my concern.
See, we can look at this, and the key issue coming out of all this is that the stock market, who knows what's going to happen with the stock market, will it...
Be the pin that bursts the bubble.
Will the market recover?
What's going to happen with that?
That has financial issues for the entire economy, even if you're not in the stock market.
But further on, when we look at it, what is the solution?
Hopefully we'll have the same solution.
What Trump is talking about is a very dystopian solution.
Very dystopian.
And we need to understand how they're going to weaponize this.
Look, they're getting biometric data, DNA collection, all this kind of stuff at the border.
This is where they're going to roll it out.
They're going to roll out the digital ID, the biometric IDs, and all the rest of this stuff.
And it's not going to be about a digital ID. They're already talking about the fact that the smart cities won't need a digital ID. It'll all be biometric.
They'll look at your face.
They'll even look at, they'll even identify you by the way that you walk.
They call that, you know, a gate, G-A-I-T.
They can identify you by so many different aspects.
And that's the real goal.
But we've got to do it because we can't control the border, right?
Look at what Biden did.
He just opened up the border.
So we've got to be able to do this.
We can't shut the border in a reasonable way.
No, we have to have a full-on surveillance state in order to protect you from illegal...
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