Star Trek - Economy & UBI

Welcome back to the channel. I hope you all are having a great weekend. So I want to finish up what the last video was about. We talked a little bit about Star Wars, want to talk a bit about Star Trek, its relation to what these future— what a future economy would probably look like under Universal Basic Income, why it comes up a lot regarding these two franchises. And when we look at something like Star Wars, um, for reference points, you can go back to, uh, my last video I did. It was called, uh, The Economics of Star Wars. Uh, so I'm going to just kind of pick up there. We talked a lot about what type of government formed the type of economy, um, the trade agreements that, uh, existed in Star Wars. And to just quickly touch on that and kind of finish that up, um, basically we discussed the type of government was mostly modeled after Nazi Germany, and that had a lot to do with George Lucas focused on things that went on there, and we explained a lot in that video. But as we move forward, let's look at the Star Wars economy relational to our own global economy here. So what we have to understand about Star Wars, there were about 50 million planets under the Galactic Empire, right? And at the nucleus of it, in the close to center, you get to that, like with worlds like Coruscant, which was a world totally just cities. It was just a planet just that was essentially a big city, right? That just went on and on. Life is great there because of technology. You have a lot of robotics, what we refer to as a robotics revolution in relation to universal basic income, which means if you have a lot of robots, if you have a lot of energy, because remember, this is a civilization that is harnessing the power of their stars. They have almost endless energy resources, right? You're going to have basically most of the labor done by robots, as we see in Star Wars. We mostly see robotic servants. We see robotic armies, right? Which is what we got in much of the Star Wars Clone Wars and so on. Right. But there is a sector of the Star Wars galaxy called the Outer Rim. Right. And in the Outer Rim, the problem is, uh, as the further you get from the center of the galaxy threshold of the energy and power, the more you start to get to these planets that you don't have all of the robot labor. And that's going to create a market because much like our global economy, what's happening is there are certain resources on certain— in certain countries that we don't have in others. In the Star Wars universe, You have certain planetary systems where there are certain metals available that aren't available on other worlds, right? You have certain spices that are available in planets that aren't. So now you can have trade negotiations and trade routes between these planets right now. You're creating a market. Hey, I'll give you 1,000, 100,000 robots for so much of this spice that you have or this material, this exotic material, whatever it may be, right? But the further you get away from technology, just like in our normal global systems, right? Where you go to, where we use terms like globalization, where you go to places where you have a lot of underpaid workers, right? That we deem as underpaid workers, which have people who are doing the labor a lot cheaper, right? you know, many political reasons, global reasons, and, uh, people profiting off of them in other places, right? So that creates a market, right? Obviously. Uh, and, and the reason universal basic income, uh, comes into Star Wars has a lot to do with the idea of, uh, these— this robotic economy, right? Where the robot's going to create this new wealth. What do you do with this new wealth? Well, more than likely, most people are going to at some point are going to end up with these robots like people ended up— most people ended up with vehicles and now transportation wasn't a problem for them, right? So you're going to have that with the robotics in these civilizations. Now that we kind of understand why that would create a kind of a perfect situation for universal basic income minus the outer rim systems, again, those are those planetary systems that are way outside the, the, the empire, right? Uh, you're gonna have that robot labor profit. We talk a lot about how to fund universal basic income today, and what we use is, uh, a type of robotic tax, a robotic economy, that new wealth from the robots that they can impose a robot tax on and pay a lot of these things, right? Uh, but now let's move on to Star Trek, right? Now Star Trek is a lot different. It would be— Tim, we'll touch a little bit on the type of government it is. Uh, we already kind of explained in the last video the government of Star Wars, which was hyper-capitalistic. And again, the error made in many of us, our ideas is that, uh, right, these are like some type of communism, uh, some type of a socialist type systems. And we're finding out that they're both capitalism. Now Star Trek we would regard as a post-capitalistic system, right? So a lot of people saying, wait a minute, Star Trek really doesn't need or use money. And that is because Star Trek is even a more great example for universal basic income. It's probably more of a perfect example because they have such an advanced technology with their teleporters and transporters and replicators that they can use these things to create, uh, uh, you know, there's no production really. They can just kind of materialize it with the replicator, which I think is based on teleportation technology. Excuse me. And so this is all very important because what it means is it means that, uh, people are pretty much free to just use a replicator. Now it is resource limited to a certain extent, right? Uh, much like their energy, that would be the kind of, uh, the floor for it. But you have to understand that in Star Trek, it's kind of pulled up the economy so much that to the point they don't really need money. It's almost like a cashless society. Now you hear things like Federation credits. The thing about Federation credits, my understanding is they are mostly used to negotiate with people outside the Federation. So they they have a spot market, right, where to transfer poor goods. It would be like, you know, if, you know, we had a resource that you wanted and we traded simply like how a barter system would work or how we even described Star Wars a few minutes ago, how these outer rim planets could trade resources with one another, right? Or based on the resource economy that your planet had. But let's get into a real quick, This teleportation, this replicating technology, right? So it means I can just sit home with a replicator. Uh, if I need food, if I need a material, if I need a device, whatever I need, I can just create it with the replicator, right? For the most part. And this is this advanced Star Trek technology, right? Now, what do we have in comparison to that in today's technology? We have our 3D printers, right? So There was a time somebody had to have the skills to build certain things, right? Whether it was based on some type of slave labor, if it was based on some type of feudal system labor, or just how we work today minus robots coming into our framework, right? But these 3D printers are printing houses, cars, right? So that means if you have one, you could sit home and instead of going out to a store, going anywhere, you just sit home and hit a button and it's going to make that. Thing for you, right? You know, you do have to have the raw materials to put in, where it's a little bit different with Star Trek. They can just kind of grab the atoms with teleportation technology out of the ether and create them in the, uh, you know, in the vicinity. But with, um, you know, uh, with Star, uh, uh, with our 3D prints, we do have to have the raw materials. But having the raw materials is going to be probably a lot easier for most people than have to produce and construct it right? That's something that would require some type of skilled labor. And what that does is that's going to bring the price of these goods down so much so to where you could end up with very, very low-priced goods, meaning mostly everybody could afford them, or you could end up with, uh, zero, you know, it costs zero, right? So as the technology advances, the prices go down. The reason universal basic income comes up a lot, because our technology, ChatGPT-4, are advancing so high that the, uh, the logical conclusion is that they're going to advance to the point they're going to outperform us in work, creativity. Uh, there was just the Joe Rogan podcast done all by ChatGPT-4, uh, with people, uh, many, uh, notable people coming on the show that were all computer-generated, all made up, but you wouldn't know the difference unless you were told, right? It's that good a technology, right? A lot of people who watch my channel don't understand the channel, don't understand what I do here, because if they did, if they were aware of what's really happening in our world or what's going to happen, they would take this very seriously and see that this is a problem as high as up there as climate change, nuclear proliferation, the biggest catastrophe and the most important thing you could think of, this is in that top 3, what we're talking about here on this channel. And we've created a universal basic income program, uh, system to meet these future challenges. We use blockchain technology and so on. You can, um, see it in our links and, uh, on our home page here, uh, bitcoinmyk.com project. And it's very, very important, guys. It's very, very important because this is going to affect most of you all in the future, uh, you know, if you're going to have a job or not, what you're going to do, the, uh, strain it's going to put on the government, if the government is going to be able to, to, to hold up the weight and support it, what are going to be our personal responsibility to ourselves and our families, how we're going to feed our families. And these are the things people like Joe Rogan are worried about. These are the things Elon Musk are worried about. Whatever you're worried about on this planet right now, I can tell you this, it's not going to be as important as this in the next 5 to 10 years. So Star Trek has solved that problem. We haven't, but we're moving into that problem. There's going to be a serious, serious problem. But the reason the Star Trek economy so much works with universal basic income, because if you have almost limited energy, which we are close to that. We have a giant reactor in space called the sun that might last another 5 billion years, that we're getting better with our solar energy, that's going to probably power many of these robots, going to power many of our sources of energy. And if it's not that, it's probably going to be some type of nuclear fusion, fission, and so on, right? So these things are going to create— get us close to that threshold of almost limited energy. Now what you're going to have to do is find a place for people who, uh, have been outpaced in creativity in the job markets and so on. And whether you're an attorney, a doctor, these robots are— they have, uh, robot lawyers now, right, that are technology in the law, the legal profession, that's better than lawyers. They have technology that's better than psych— uh, psychologists and psychiatrists. And so there's going to be very little left for human beings to do. That's why projects like I'm working on are so very important, that are going to use technology and AI to create a universal basic income to meet this and use the robotics to deal with the issue. But to get more information on that, and, uh, make sure you subscribe to the channel, watch the last video, it's pretty interesting. Uh, tell people about this video so they know how important this is because a lot of people Uh, you know, we're a species of people who, uh, we don't focus on serious things until it's too late. Oftentimes when we're at the precipice of destruction, and that's probably not the most efficient, best way to deal with our problems, right? So what can you do to solve this problem? It's very, very simple. Doesn't cost you a dime. Sign up for BitcoinNYK.com Universal Basic Income. 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