The SAFER Trust Act of 2024

(15:14) “Meaning?! That’s something you can find no matter what!” — Tony Robbins

(15:44) “What is The Most Consequential Thing we could be talking about right now, as it relates to suffering and everything that’s going on in society, what would that answer be?” — Steven Bartlett

“I think it’s AI but it’s not just AI, it’s nanotechnology, it’s the rapid change in technology; and if you don’t believe it’s going to destroy humanity, and it’s going to liberate us from a lot of labor, if you believe that … and we displace this many jobs in this short a period of time, jobs are not just money. Jobs are … not the only form of meaning, but it’s meaning. So, it’s like you talk about. We’ll give people UBI and okay, I think you might have to because the changes are going to happen so rapidly. Like I said, 80% of us were farmers 150 years ago. Now, it’s 3%. We feed the world. That’s a long transition. I think I mentioned to you off the air here, I was visiting with [the] President 10 years ago and I was saying, ‘Hey, I got to talk to you. You know, you inherited a pretty tough economy from the original 2008 explosion breakdown. We lost 8 million jobs.” So, I said, ‘There’s technology coming right now that we can predict is going to displace more than those 8 million jobs.’ And at that time I said, ‘Just take self-driving cars.” They were just starting to come out. I said, ‘In the next 10, 12, 13, 14 years, they’re going to become ubiquitous.’ And I said, ‘There’s 8 million truck drivers, Uber drivers, and taxi drivers. And are you doing anything to retool them? Because if you don’t, think about this. If I’m a business person and I can hire a person to drive a truck only eight hours a day, I have to pay for the healthcare, which gets more expensive every year. I can buy a truck that can drive 24 hours a day. My insurance is cheaper because it doesn’t make mistakes, and I can depreciate the asset. Am I going to hire anybody? I said, ‘so those jobs going to go. That’s 8 million [disappeared jobs], [and] that’s [only] one sector. We could look at pharma. There [are] so many industries affected.” So I said, ‘we’ve got to retool those people now where there’s 10 years to gear them up because these are not people that are going to do it on their own, and they’re going to be shocked. The shock to their system. The loss of dignity of [the perception of] being in control, [exercising] agency over their own life, their own job, their own direction … is huge.” — Tony Robbins