Vegabundo

  I think we can safely assume that technological advancements will cause many people to lose their jobs and, along with them, their income. Some of them will likely find new jobs, others might make a living by dancing on TikTok, and some might even sell their farts, but let’s be honest—none of this will create enough jobs for billions of people. The idea of basic income has been around for a while, but there’s no sign that it will be introduced in time. Let’s think about this together. Who should receive basic income? Each country could implement its own solution. Some nations might need this sooner, while others might need it later. The demographic makeup, economic structure, and environmental factors all influence how much basic income would be justified in different parts of the world. Another idea is that it should be provided globally to every human on the planet. If it’s not universal, existential disparities will continue to grow, and far more people than today will be forc...

  That’s it, stop having kids. The robots are coming. More precisely, they’re already here. Simulating politeness, they wave back at us in shopping malls. They take on the lousy, dangerous, monotonous jobs, changing the dirty diapers of our aging society. And that’s all good. But what will we humans do next? We could all write blogs, but will the world need ten billion bloggers? Because once mass production of robots begins, millions of them will roll out of factories every single year. We thought technological progress would first threaten physical labor, but it quickly became clear that graphic designers, programmers, and writers are in greater danger than those shoveling dirt. Of course, they won’t have to wait much longer either—soon, a humanoid robot will politely ask for their shovel and take over the task. Is this bad or good? Neither. It’s exactly what we make of it. One extreme—almost utopian—is a world where millions of robots anticipate our every wish, allowing u...

  Several organizations have calculated the poverty threshold. Poverty, of course, is a highly subjective concept. In these cases, they mainly calculated how much money a person needs to avoid starvation. Let's look at some numbers: Oxfam, extreme poverty threshold: $2.15 World Bank, moderate poverty threshold: $6.85 I’ll just leave these numbers here for now, but we’ll revisit them in a later post. I have been living on a budget of 5 euros per day for about a year now, which I consider a mid-term period. Aside from food, the only thing I spend money on is an internet subscription, though there were times when I even saved on that. The truth is, I have never lived healthier than during this period. An important side note: my carbon footprint has also been reduced to a fraction of what it used to be—practically, the only emissions from my existence come from my metabolic processes. How Do I Live? Very modestly. I am not complaining—I chose this li...

A species on the brink of extinction. Only a few specimens can be found in isolated corners of the world. My grandparents did the same job their entire lives. Our children will work in roles a few years from now that don’t even exist today. My grandparents still belonged to the category of analog humans, but my parents were already partially digitized. My generation grew up in this transition, even if it was just a Commodore computer that served as the gateway into the world of ones and zeros. Using a computer still felt very alien to me. It made me uncomfortable, uneasy, and somehow unnatural (DOS, Windows 3.1). My children, however, embraced the digital world much more easily, which can be attributed to the evolution of technology. Human habits have changed more in the past few decades than in the preceding thousands of years combined. The singularity has happened. We’ve been absorbed into the digital world. We didn’t notice because we are in the middle of the process, but from the o...

The world has become flooded with know-it-alls in just a few years. They tell you how to think, what to eat, where to travel, what shoes to buy, how and with what to clean yourself, who to live your life with, and so on. It’s hard to find a topic where someone doesn’t want to interfere. My mission is to primarily be the one who asks questions. I want my readers to think and form their own opinions. Of course, questions themselves can also be tools of manipulation. In fact, it’s unavoidable that questions influence people. I imagine questions lying on a spectrum. This spectrum represents their manipulative potential, depending on how strong the intent to influence is within them. Questions are good. Alright, you’re right. Nothing is inherently good or bad. It always depends on how it’s used. Let me put it more clearly: questions are excellent tools. When my kids were little, I tried to handle their learning on my own. I met a math teacher who teaches the subject in a truly revolutionary...