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De Brevitate Vitae (English: On the Shortness of Life) is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime around the year 49 AD, to his father-in-law Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time, namely that people waste much of it in meaningless pursuits. According to the essay, nature gives people enough time to do what is really important and the individual must allot it properly. In general, time is best used by living in the present moment in pursuit of the intentional, purposeful life.
Evropa na Ekonomskim Kolenima pred Trampom Zamislite da se dve imperije, jedna sa sindromom birokratske iscrpljenosti, druga sa hroničnim deficitom i vojno-industrijskim sindromom, nađu oči u oči za istim stolom. Ne za večerom, nego za stolom prekrivenim protokolima, floskulama i obostranom sumnjom. Trgovinski sporazum između SAD i EU nije samo trgovinski. On je mapa moći. On je pregovaranje o tome ko će sutra određivati standarde veštačke inteligencije, sastav pilećih nuggetsa i ko sme da izgradi baterijsku fabriku gde i kako želi. Sve ostalo su fusnote. Evropa dolazi u te pregovore bez energije, i bukvalno i metaforički. Nakon što su isključili ruski gas, sada se greju na američki LNG, koji im stiže sa 7.000 kilometara udaljenosti po ceni lojalnosti. Amerika, s druge strane, u ekonomskom ratu sa Kinom, pokušava da sebi obezbedi rezervnu industrijsku bazu. Evropa, sa lukom, bez kajmaka. Nije ni čudo što trgovinski razgovori više liče na psihoterapiju propalih brakova nego na racionalno usklađivanje interesa. Sporazum koji se kuva više ne nosi ime TTIP, to je sad psovka u Briselu. Umesto toga, imamo radne grupe, pododbore, transatlantske savete, pa i nešto što se zove „Inicijativa za trgovinsku i tehnološku saradnju“. Zvanično, sve je to zbog „zajedničkih vrednosti“ i „demokratije“. Nezvanično Evropa pokušava da spreči da je Amerika pojede za doručak, a Amerika pokušava da spreči da Evropa zaspi tokom sastanka. Rezultat je 15:0, to jest od sada će se za uvoz evropske robe u Ameriku plaćati 15% carine, a za američku u Evropu 0%. To nije samo trgovinski promašaj za 450 miliona evropljana, već samo nastavak niza poniženja koje im je predsednik Tramp nametnuo od početka svog mandata. Spinovanje priče da je 15% bolje od 30%, kojim je Tramp pretio pre ponižavajućeg potpisa, je sada parodija na društvenim mrežama. I ne samo to, Evropa je zakucala energetski ekser u svoj ekonomski kovčeg obavezujući se da će kupiti $750 milijardi američkih skupih energenata do 2028. god
The physical economy supply chain is: Mining -> processing -> manufacturing-> distribution Historical revenue distribution has been: 5-15% Mining 10-25% Processing 25-45% Manufacturing 20-40% Distribution AI will massively improve distribution and manufacturing both of which are complex, and this will allow the physical economy to grow much quicker than it historically has. This will also push more and more demand upstream into processing and mining, and it will eventually push commodity futures into a scarcity regime. Because whilst AI can create more demand for feedstock, it cannot create more copper ore reserves. Over the next 20-30 years, it is the big extraction industrials that will capture much of the economic value of AI. Not by owning the AI, but by owning the things that AI craves… commodities. What AI means long term is the commodification and abundance of intelligence, and that means physical commodities become the choke point on which the rest of the economy is priced. This is a new price structure for capital, as sovereign bonds and FX are historically priced off the demographics of a sovereign’s tax base, in the future bonds might instead be priced off a countries resource base, eg energy and metals. There are major winners and losers across geopolitics and the corporate landscape, once you entertain this as a plausible future scenario. The geostrategic landscape of the global economy is very different on the other side of AGI. GDP is likely to uncouple from demographics and couple up to geographical resources. This fundamentally changes the things that make a big country a big country.
