There are radical changes taking place which are going to seriously affect the future of an individual's income statement.
For those without a basis in accounting, an income statement is nothing more than a document that lists out revenues (money incoming) and expenses (money outgoing). It seeks to rectify, especially for businesses where all the money went. Ultimately, it shows is an individual or company made/lost money.
Living under the bankster controlled system, individuals the last 20 years have basically seen their income statement shredded.
Over that time, wages are flat means the income part remained the same. At the same time, many saw expenses drift upward, particularly in the United States with regards to medical. We also see increases in housing, energy, and cars. Even the cable bill keeps going up on a regular basis.
I often write about the Age of Abundance. It is a period we are now entering. If we take a long term few of things, decades into the future, we are going to see physical assets created out of nothing. When we get to the point where we have free energy and replicators that can make most anything, physical assets will cost practically nothing. It is at that point where we reach a post monetary age.
That time could be half a century or more away, something that many of us will not experience without radical advancements in life extension (which they are working on).
What is taking place is that we are seeing technologies that will impact both sides of the income statement.
The first innovation is cryptocurrency. As we are starting to see, now that the Internet has come to money, it is starting to create abundance. No longer is "money" creation in the hands of the a few individuals who control the central banks. Basically, anyone can create a currency. The value of said item is determined by the number of people using it. We are moving past the point where government mandates decide what we use. Some countries are fighting this like China and North Korea (I won't even mention Venezuela which is a total mess). Nevertheless, even the U.S Congress is embracing it.
Many people are experiencing the power of this by being here on STEEM. Simply by posting content, one can earn STEEM. For the majority of people who were on other social media sites, it does not take long to make more money in a week or two on here than they did in years on Facebook (and no data hack on STEEM).
Another area is Manna. This is a cryptocurrency that is simply given to anyone who verifies. Unlike government handouts, this does not require taking from one person to give to another. This is appealing to those who do not like government theft, even when they dress it up as taxation.
The biggest benefit is for new money to reach people, debt is not required, In our fiat system, money is created and put in the banksters hands for them to loan out. All new money is debt and requires a note by some individual or company to get it into circulation. The banksters do not go around handing out new money to people with no strings attached.
Cryptocurrency does.
Yet what about the expense side of things?
There is one advancement which is going to send the price of things plummeting. 3D printing, also known as addictive manufacturing, is going to streamline the creation of physical products. Like blockchain, this reduces the number of middle men allowing for direct manufacturing. At some point, we will have things in the home which produce much of what we need.
One of the areas that is being focused upon is in the area of home building. There is a fairly large segment of the world that does not have adequate housing. Many feel that 3D printing offers the solution.
In Austin, Tx, a company just build a 3D house for about $10K. This took about a day to complete and is the size of a studio apartment.
While this might not sound like much, consider the fact that technology tends to get less expensive. A $10K house today will cost half of that 5 years down the road as the technology improves. Improvements will also, in my estimation, allow for the creation of much bigger homes.
Take a look and see for yourself.
Here is another home that was built last year as a demonstration.
In the next couple years, we are going to see this as a common practice for building smaller structures. This will help bring down the cost as we start moving into the next decade.
Another area we see a chunk of the income statement going towards is transportation. Again, in the western counties, this can amount to $500+ dollars a month. While the promise of electric, autonomous vehicles will ultimately drive down the cost to near zero, that is at least a decade away for the masses.
In the nearer term, we see 3D printing emerging. There is a company that is going to be "printing" out cars for under $7,500 apiece. These are little more than smart cars designed for very short trips. Nevertheless, it does show the breakthrough of what is coming.
Production took 3 days to make the car since most of it is 3D printed. Again, this is not the answer for most people yet it is a starting point. Plus, unlike autonomous vehicles, these will be available starting in 2019.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/17/lsev-is-a-7500-3-d-printed-electric-car-from-xev.html
These are a couple simple examples of the technological advancements that are starting to emerge. All these moves serve to reduce the cost of things. There are hundreds of examples just like this that I can cite which all lead to the same outcome; things being less expensive.
The Age of Abundance will see both sides of the income statement affected. As more of our daily lives come under the laws of Informational Technology, we are going to see a massive pricing declines. This coupled with the increase in the income due to cryptocurrency means that billions of people are going to experience greater stability.
And this is something we are seeing starting to unfold right before our eyes.
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At some point, the whole money equals debt house of cards will come crashing down. We came close in 2008, but their was no fallback system (not enough gold out there for a true gold standard to rise from the ashes). Next crisis, a crypto future will emerge.
Just my opinion, your mileage may vary.
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I think you are right. We are already starting to see rumblings that they want to take the cuffs off the banksters which means a repeat of what we saw before. When the house of cards does collapse, it will be a lot more difficult to get any bailouts since, as you noted, there will be an alternative system.
Hell the collapse might take some countries with it. Do not overlook the fact that blockchain is a threat to governments also.
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A very real possibility, particularly in Europe.
And I’m always amazed that Japan has not yet fallen off a cliff, given their massive debt to GDP ratio that makes America and Europe look healthy. They’re maybe a special case with more social cohesion than most countries, but still.
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While what you are writing is possibly the future, still a lot of hurdles have to be taken.
Like this week were an automated self driving uber car, did kill a pedestrian. I don’t who was to blame but for sure it will have an impact on the viewpoint of lots of people.
So yes, it will be the future but maybe it will take some more time then you envisioned it.
I read today that Snovio is building a linkedin version based in the concept of Steem. People will get paid to post their resume. So considering the online part we are taking 10 hurdles at the time! The offline part will just take some longerI guess!
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My response about the self driving death (although as you point out we dont know who is at fault) is simply how many death occurred on the US hwys the same day due to people?
You are right, this setback will change perception...but drive on a busy interstate near a major city in the US and you will see that most people should not be behind the wheel of a 1500-2000 lb vehicle.
I didnt hear that about Snovio...that is very interesting.....go after Microsoft on that one.
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Everything in the IT is like building bridges.
There was a time that people did start building bridges, a lot of them collapsed, but they kept improving and nowadays you rarely hear about bridges collapsing. Unfortunately one did last week and it was major news, it even reached mainstream media here in Europe.
It will be the same for cryptos, block chain and so on. But I do believe that there will be at least an equal number of blockchains without cryptocurrency than with.
Will dedicate a post to that later this week or early next week.
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A bridge just collapsed in Florida last week...so it is still happening.
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The self driving death is a "normal thing" to happen, because the idea of autonomous cars is not to prevent deads to happen completely but to avoid at a maximum, if you compare the number of deaths because of human drivers with, this only dead (first ever), it isn't even fair to talk about a dead by autonomous car...
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I know but like @taskmaster4450 wrote it will set back the perception of people. We, humans, are full of mistakes and make them everyday.
Self driving car will make less mistakes but they are programmed by ...: oh yeah humans!
I am in the ICT myself and have never seen a program without bugs!!!
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Yep unfortunately when mistakes like this or the bridge happen people usually die. And that responsibility is huge.
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The age of abundance, no doubt, is now upon us. Cryptocurrency is a wonder that would usher in this age. Although, like other innovations, people are kicking against it. I believe, like you do, that more people would embrace it.
Also, I read your other post about the US Congress endorsing blockchain. I think that is just the beginning of greater things to come.
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This will mainly be a revolution for people living in the third world. For the rest it won't be that magical since they been living in abundance a long time now.
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I consider this view as being parochial, although not entirely wrong. People in the Third World would benefit more, really. However, the developed world would also benefit massively from the decentralization of the blockchain like we are seeing already. If they've got all the abundance, as you've suggested, why are the majority of Steemians here from the West? My friend, the blockchain technology is here to bring abundance to the whole world.
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Many are from the West since they see their culture is being run over now by globalism. Blockchain is a good way to have a chance at becoming rich. Globalism destroys a lot of culture in many countries and has made many places more dangerous than what it was in the past especially Europe region. The major winners are the third world.
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3D printing is gonna enter the every aspect of our life and we will soon be having those 3D printers in every house as we are now having the smartphone in every hand.
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A big key to the age of abundance is free energy. If we are able to utilize a source that is clean, renewable and does not harm the environment like solar, wind and ocean currents powered that can scale to the energy creation of nuclear power plants we may see things explode so to speak.
We will then provide value and be able to exchanged these as currency that can provide everyone with a universal basic income. It is no longer the banksters who can decide who shall have money or not.
Exciting times indeed and that is why the banksters are doing their best to delay it but tech always wins and gets adopted. They cannot stop the advancement.
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Actually, depending upon how far out you go, fusion might well be the free energy for the planet which powers everything.
There are many breakthroughs on that front....it is still a long way off although AI might speed it up.
It is interesting to note how solutions today are simply bridges....they are temporary.
But yes, abundant free energy is crucial. Once that is achieved, we will see a totally different world.
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True Fusion power might be the way to go aside from solar, wind and ocean current power generation scalability will get better.
Indeed the solutions we find now might be just stepping stones to get better tech in the future.
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Yes it is interesting to watch the progression so that we see how some things might be only temporary solutions.
Of course, the joke is fusion is always 20 years out....so who knows?
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Enjoyed the post very much and loving the comments too! Banksters! I’m going to start using this one too. I think you’re right on most of things mentioned, and I do believe that blockchain and crypto are a step forward for the humanity. There will be stepbacks and mistakes will be made, but as long as we learn from them, we will emerge better off. Cryptocurrency might even end world poverty or bring it to record low levels.. who knows? It’s a great time to be alive!
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World poverty has always been going down. Mainly because of technology improvement and advancements in various medical areas. But I would also argue that for many western people life was better and more calm in the 50s or 60s.
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Sure, if one was male and Caucasian.
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For females and males and for families.
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Yes!
I love living in the age of abun-dance 💃🏽 were we can get paid just for being ourselves.
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It's going to be amazing what we'll be able to do with these advancements. 3D printing has the potential to solve so many problems, just imagine what we could do if we could recycle our plastics effectively to create base material for 3d printing...
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The question is if there is any future in objects when we only need mostly software these days. Especially with virtual reality technology.
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Building a house for 10k being printed seems pretty cool. It defiantly is expensive, but like you said, it will get cheaper. Once it gets cheaper, that'll be amazing, because more people will have houses they actually like.
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This won't happen on a large scale. What will happen before that is government or private companies build large apartments for people to live in instead.
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True, very true!
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@taskmaster4450 - always enjoy your posts & this is another solid one for sure. I do agree we'll see many of the changes you outline- the question being is how long before these changes are adopted? I think for 3-D printing & manufacturing we are really close to seeing this technology really take off. There are startups that you have outlined in housing that are working today to make this dream of additive manufacturing print houses right now!
This is a noble effort to print 3-D houses for people; giving people homes to shelter their families. The cost of housing in many areas in the US is growing exponentially- this is part of the problem that leads to homelessness in California & other high-cost areas. Being able to print a home for $10K , that is amazing. It might bring us back to the 1950s where many people paid cash for their homes- or in the future no 30 year mortgages needed! Keep up the great work.
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This is still far too off. Just look at how long time it took for Bitcoin to get released to get some attention. We are 10 years in but almost nothing has happened. 3D print house is a fantasy also that will take at least 30 years until it would take off mainstream. And we also have an overpopulation problem. People don't have time to do these things you need land and a bunch of other things. People will just rent and share stuff more instead. Most of places on this planet doesn't have that much free land to do these fantasy experiments on. Most live in cities.
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I love this world. How people do not try, but it's getting better and better. Good luck and love to you.
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These houses are so cool. Once they start building them, then the price of land and taxes will go up. You know these scumbages have to get their cash. They'll find a way to screw up a great deal on housing. Great post Task. 😎
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