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title: 'It''s Starting: "You''ll Own Nothing & Be Happy"'
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date: 2026-09-30
duration_sec: 2219
channel: 'Andrei Jikh'
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# It's Starting: "You'll Own Nothing & Be Happy"

> Source: [It's Starting: "You'll Own Nothing & Be Happy"](https://youtube.com/watch?v=t8KXQrHPmrg)

## Summary

This video presents a detailed argument that a global plan, known as Agenda 21 and later Agenda 2030, has been in development for nearly 50 years. It traces the plan's origins from a 1976 UN conference on land ownership to the 1992 Earth Summit and the 2015 adoption of Agenda 2030. The video explains how financial mechanisms like ESG and asset managers like BlackRock enforce these goals, and concludes with the author's personal preparation strategy of focusing on ownership and independence.

### Key Points

- **1976: Land as a Public Asset** [00:06:33] — The plan originated at the 1976 UN Habitat conference, where governments wrote that land 'cannot be treated as an ordinary asset controlled by individuals.'
- **1992: Agenda 21 Signed** [00:10:25] — In 1992, 178 governments signed Agenda 21, a 350-page blueprint covering consumption, settlements, agriculture, energy, and more.
- **Cost of Agenda 21** [00:12:02] — The UN estimated implementing Agenda 21 would cost around $600 billion per year.
- **2015: Agenda 2030 Adopted** [00:17:21] — In 2015, all 193 UN members adopted Agenda 2030, with 17 goals and 169 targets, including legal identity for all by 2030.
- **ESG as Enforcement Mechanism** [00:20:16] — ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) scoring emerged from a 2004 UN report called 'Who Cares? Wins' and is used by asset managers to enforce corporate alignment with global goals.
- **BlackRock's Power** [00:20:58] — BlackRock manages over $10 trillion and uses proxy voting to force companies to change behaviors, as stated by CEO Larry Fink.
- **WEF 2030 Predictions** [00:23:01] — The WEF published eight predictions for 2030, including 'you will own nothing and be happy,' the U.S. losing superpower status, and eating lab-grown insects.
- **The Great Reset** [00:26:07] — Klaus Schwab's 'Great Reset' (2020) proposed stakeholder capitalism, positioning private corporations as trustees of society, aligned with UN goals.
- **Population Decline** [00:29:26] — The global replacement rate is about 2.2-2.3, heading toward the extinction threshold of 2.1, suggesting population decline.
- **Wealth Concentration** [00:31:18] — Warren Buffett made over 95% of his wealth after age 65, illustrating how compound interest concentrates wealth over time.
- **Personal Preparation** [00:36:07] — The author's preparation: own real property, physical commodities, self-custody Bitcoin, avoid debt, and keep food and basics.

### Conclusion

The video argues that Agenda 2030 is a real, documented global plan to centralize control over resources and people, enforced through financial mechanisms like ESG. Whether it's a deliberate conspiracy or a natural societal collapse, the author recommends focusing on ownership and independence to prepare.

## Transcript

So I'm going to show you a plan that's been in the works for almost 50 years. It was agreed upon by almost every government in the world, and that plan covers where you should live, what you should own, what you should eat, and how you should pay for things.
Now, most people have probably never heard of it. It's been called different names throughout the decades, like Agenda 21. Agenda 21 is kind of a code name for a master plan originated at the United Nations
to change the political and economic system of the world to one of total collectivism. And in order to do that,
people must not be allowed to have independence. They must be dependent on the state. In order to control mankind, we have to get them all into the big cities. We have to rack them up and stock them up,
get them dependent on the state for their food, their shelter, their electrical power, their water, everything. That's the dirty secret behind Agenda 21. Now, when I first heard about this, my reaction was that this sounds like some crazy conspiracy
theory. There's no way that a group of people sat in a room somewhere and wrote down a plan to get everyone off their land, into cities, and dependent on the state. Except, way back in 1976, at a United Nations conference, world governments wrote that land
could not be treated as an ordinary asset controlled by individuals. And in 1992, 178 governments signed on to a 350-page plan
for how humanity should live, how it should produce and consume for the next century. In 2015, every country in the United Nations agreed to a goal of giving every person in the world a legal identity by the year 2030.
The World Economic Forum made a video telling you that by 2030, you'll have no privacy, you'll own nothing, and you'll be happy. And then last week, the European Central Bank switched on the first piece of the digital euro.
Monday, 21st of September, we will launch Pontes. Now, Pontes is, to summarize it quickly for you, it's digital euro made available for banks
so that they can transact amongst themselves using tokenized assets and distributed ledger technology. We very much hope that the piece of legislation that is currently under debate concerning the digital euro
will see its completion and finalization before the end of this year, and the earlier the better. So that's phase one. And by the way, all of this is published for everyone to see. And if you do decide to read it, what you're going to find is that this is the master plan to inventory and control the world's resources.
It is the inventory and control plan. Inventory and control of all land, all water, all minerals, all plants, all animals, all construction, all means of production,
all food, all energy, all information, and all human beings in the world. And this is a plan that was agreed to by 179 nations back in 1992.
It's a United Nations plan. It's called the Agenda for the 21st Century. And so many of us around the world think that, well, sustainable development just sounds so great.
Isn't it about recycling and creative reuse and creating energy and food resources for everyone? And the answer is no, it really is not.
It's about moving populations into city centers, concentrated city centers, and clearing them out of the rural areas. All systems have to be brought into harmony in order to control them all.
Because when systems don't meet, when they're out of balance or not in sync with one another, they cannot be controlled centrally. And the goal of Agenda 21 is one world government and total control from a central unit.
Now, if you're thinking, maybe that sounds a little evil, I think the people with power might not be too worried about being called that, because what does evil mean anyway? Here's what a tech billionaire thinks about what evil actually is.
if you're evil, you're at least competent. And if you're evil, you're not bad. And therefore, maybe you're actually kind of good because you're at least getting something done.
So in this video, I'm going to show you the plan in their own words from 1976 all the way to what their goals are for 2030. I'll show you how it went from an idea about just land to this global agenda,
how the biggest money managers in the world got involved and why it explains a lot of what's happening in the world right now. At the end, I'll tell you how I'm preparing for it and what I think. So with that said, let's get into it.
My name is Andre J. Hope you're doing well. Trump at the Finance and stay for Agenda 2030. Now, this is the master plan for humanity that the central planners, a.k.a. the people with all the influence over institutions, have for the year 2030.
Now, this plan is, in fact, a real thing. It is not a conspiracy. The reason that some people think it is, is because throughout history, this plan has sort of kept changing names.
So, to show you that this is a real thing, let me show you where it comes from and how it sort of progressed over time. Ultimately, the reason I think why this is so important is because it explains a lot of what we see happening in the world today.
But, this started in 1976. See, the world governments got together with an idea. Their idea was that land should not be treated as an ordinary asset.
That year, the United Nations held a conference called Habitat, the UN Conference on Human Settlements. Now, in the 1970s, they had a problem. The world's population was exploding,
and the people were flooding into cities across the developing world because the poorest places of the world were growing faster than governments could build housing for them. So the world leaders got together in this conference,
and they were like, how do we solve this? Pretty soon, they're going to outnumber us, and they're going to want to own land and assets eventually, and that's just not sustainable. So here's a plan they all agreed to.
In one part of the plan, there was a section about land. In the official recommendations from that conference, governments wrote that land, because of its unique nature, quote, cannot be treated as an ordinary asset controlled by individuals
and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market, end quote. They also wrote that land ownership is, quote, a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth
and that it contributes to social injustice. Their conclusion was basically that public control of land is indispensable. Meaning, governments could not fully realize their plan unless they, not the individual owners of the free market, but they had the final say over how land got used.
In practice, that meant regulating what you could and couldn't do to your land. Taking back some of its increase in value, right? Using taxation, using public ownership to control how cities would eventually grow.
So, you could still own land on paper, right? But under this vision, control over it would belong more and more to the central planners. This was all written down in 1976.
Now, that conference didn't just create the plan. A couple years later, the United Nations created a permanent agency for human settlements, which today is known as UN Habitat.
That conference keeps happening every 20 years to further this plan. In 1996, for example, they held Habitat II in Turkey, then Habitat III in Ecuador in 2016,
and that's where the world adopted something called the New Urban Agenda, which was designed to continue the goals for Agenda 2030. Again, the idea is that land, if there's going to be too many people in the world,
would be too important to be left to the individuals to control. Okay, at this point in time, this was just an idea, right? Their plan did not have a very specific framework.
It didn't have any specific goals. It didn't really have a name because that didn't actually happen until 16 years later. That's when something called Agenda 21 was born, which was a plan about how they would usher in the new rules for the 21st century.
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And now let's get back to it. Okay, so in June of 1992, the central planners got together for something called the Earth Summit. This is where 178 governments agreed to a document called Agenda 21. and it talked about basically their plan for the 21st century.
Now, agenda 21 was huge. It had around 350 pages to it, and it went way beyond planning cities. There was a whole chapter on changing consumption patterns,
meaning they wanted to change people's behaviors about how much stuff we bought and used. There was also a chapter on how human settlements should be planned, including land use.
There were chapters on agriculture, energy, water, forests, right? It was essentially a blueprint for how humanity should live according to them. And to understand how big of a deal this was, you have to understand what it was trying to do.
See, this was a plan for almost everything. Right? Agenda 21 is split into four sections. The first section covered the social and economic side, like poverty, health, population,
how people consume and where they live. The second part of it covers the plant's resources, like land, water, forests, oceans, farming, energy.
And the third part is about who should carry it out. It names specific groups, like governments, businesses, local authorities, even farmers, workers, and young people. And then the fourth section is how they would pay for it, to put it into practice.
the United Nations estimated that carrying it out would cost them around $600 billion per year. In other words, for the first time in history,
almost every government in the world agreed on this one big plan for how humanity should live, what it should make, what it should eat, and who should be in charge of making this happen.
They even created something called the Commission on Sustainable Development, and that's the track where the countries were following through with this plan. Now, technically, Agenda 21 was not a legal agreement.
There was no contract, so no country was legally forced to follow it. But for some reason, the policies all around the world have started to become visible, right? So here's how this agenda started to become reality.
In one part of Agenda 21, there was a section titled Local Authorities Initiative in Support of Agenda 21. That section asked local governments around the world, city council, city planners,
to basically create their own Local Agenda 21. And an organization called ICLEI, which today calls itself Local Governments for Sustainability, that's how these ideas slowly started to get passed.
Using things like zoning boards and city planners and regional development programs, basically they used all the parts of the government that no one's paying attention to. Now, that same year, 1992, the U.S. adopted this as well.
In fact, there's a video of Nancy Pelosi introducing a resolution in Congress calling for a national strategy for sustainable development, quote, in accordance with the principles of Agenda 21. Check this out.
The Earth Summit Environmental Leadership Act, as this is known, presents us with an opportunity to follow up on the important work of the Earth Summit to develop its blueprint, Agenda 21, for global environmental action.
H-Conc Red 353 outlines a comprehensive national strategy for sustainable development in accordance with the principles of Agenda 21 to be coordinated under the leadership of a specific office
and the direction of a high-level government official. So that proposal actually had 71 sponsors and the support of the administration. Then a year later, in 1993, President Clinton created the President's Council on Sustainable Development by executive order
to put all these ideas into U.S. policy. This afternoon, I am announcing the creation of the President's Council on Sustainable Development to help set policies to grow the economy and preserve the environment for our children and our children's children,
bringing together some of the most innovative people from business, from government, from the environmental movement, the civil rights movement, and the labor movement. But over the next 20 years, as these policies started to become rules and laws,
more and more people started to wake up and question what the heck was going on. One of those people was Rosa Corey. She said that what this plan was actually about was that the central planners wanted to inventory
or quantify and control everything, like natural resources, land, water, energy, food, and ultimately people. Now, if this sounds like some crazy idea, there were actually speakers at one of the recent World Economic Forums
that said more or less the same thing about how every natural resource in this world needs to be trapped and it should not be free. When we talk about capital, we tend to think only about financial capital,
about financial assets, but we know that's not the only value on which our economists depend. We know that every aspect or every part of the economy is fundamentally dependent on
the issues you highlighted. The air that we breathe, the water we drink, the soil, the oceans that we need for the food that we need to consume, the minerals that we need as inputs to technology and to
infrastructure. And without these forms of value, these forms of natural capital, we won't have economies. They are the fundamental building blocks of our economies. And we need to start recognizing water as a precious resource.
Therefore, water should be better managed, should be better valued. And now we need to put the economics of water, not only in terms of monetary value, but also in terms of governance, in terms of recognizing water as a commons
that we now need to manage as a broad systems approach. Did we actually manage to vaccinate everyone in the world? No. So highlighting water as a global commons and what it means to work together and see it,
both out of that kind of global commons perspective, but also the self-interest perspective, because it does have that parallel, it's not only important, but it's also important because we haven't managed to solve those problems, which have similar attributes.
And water is something that people understand. So there's also something about really getting citizen engagement around this and really, in some ways, experimenting with this notion of the common good. can we actually deliver this time in ways that we have failed miserably other times?
So in 2015, all 193 members of the United Nations got together and they adopted this Agenda 2030. This time, though, it was a lot more specific about what their goals are.
Like the first one, for example, was a deadline. Agenda 21 was just a vision for the 21st century, which is kind of open-ended because there's no timeline. But Agenda 2030 has a timeline for when all of these goals should be achieved,
which is now less than four years away, 2030. Now, the second thing it was very specific about was who it applied to. See, before this, the UN had something called the Millennium Development Goals,
which ran from 2000 to the year 2015. And those were mostly supposed to help developing countries fight things like extreme poverty and hunger and disease in the poorest parts of the world.
But Agenda 2030 is what the UN calls universal, meaning it applies to every country, including rich countries like the United States. Now the third thing they were very specific about is the scope They listed 17 goals and 169 targets By the way most of them actually sound altruistic They sound good Like we doing this for the betterment of
humanity. Who could ever be against ending world hunger or having clean drinking water, right? But when you actually read the documents, a couple things start to stand out. Goal 11,
for example, is about cities. And it calls for, quote, sustainable human settlement planning. Again, that goes from 1976. Goal 12 is about consumption, meaning changing how much we buy, how much we use and produce.
Again, same idea from that chapter in Agenda 21. Goal 8 is about expanding access to banking and financial services to everyone, because they want to get every person in the world into the financial system formally.
And that's exactly what digital money makes possible. Then there's Goal 16, Target 9. It says, quote, by 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration.
So every person in the world will eventually be formally identified. There's also goal 17, which says the way to get all of this done will be through partnerships and cooperation with non-governmental organizations.
So this whole plan will not just be carried out by the UN. It'll also be carried out through the policies of some of the biggest companies and institutions around the world. Now, hold on. At this point, you might be asking, how would they all agree to that?
How do you get all these companies to go along with it? That just sounds like a grand conspiracy. Except, it's not, because if you could get the people who control the capital flow, aka money, to reward the companies that follow these goals and punish the ones that don't,
then that's how you do it. That's where something called ESG comes from. It stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance. It's basically a way of scoring companies on things beyond just making money,
like their carbon emissions or the demographic makeup of their workforce. This is not a conspiracy. ESG actually came out in 2004 in a report put together under the United Nations Global Compact called Who Cares? Wins.
They basically said, if the biggest investors in the world push companies in this direction, the money does all the enforcing for you. And the biggest investors in the world is BlackRock,
which today manages more than $10 trillion, which means it has a huge chunk of the votes at those companies, which are through what are called proxies. If you buy an ETF instead of an individual stock,
you are most likely giving up your money's voting power to these asset management companies like BlackRock. In fact, here's a CEO, Larry Fink, in 2017.
How do you force change when it is so incremental and so gradual? How do you do something more radical? Well, behaviors are going to have to change, and this is one thing we're asking companies. You have to force behaviors, and at BlackRock we are forcing behaviors.
So in that clip, he's talking about pushing companies on who they hire. He was pushing diversity. And the reason he's able to do this is because when you control that many shares,
you can force companies to change without anyone really voting on it. And if they don't agree with you and they don't go along with your plan, just use your voting power to essentially put someone else in charge. That's how it works.
Now, by 2020, BlackRock's annual letter to CEOs said that Sustainability would basically become BlackRock's new standard for investing. But by 2023, Larry Fink said that he stopped using ESG because it became too politically weaponized.
But he didn't actually walk away from the bigger goal, because in 2025, Larry Fink became the co-chair of the World Economic Forum. Now, today, this idea actually lives at the World Economic Forum,
where the most powerful people in the world come together in Davos, Switzerland to talk about how they're all going to usher in this world agenda. And they want to get this done as fast as possible.
In 2019, the WEF signed a formal partnership with the United Nations to help push Agenda 2030. And this is where things start to get really interesting. Back in 2016, the World Economic Forum published a video with eight predictions
for what the world would look like in 2030. These are not my predictions. These are their predictions for the world, and they kind of sound crazy, but here's what they are. The first prediction is that you will own nothing,
and you'll be happy. Whatever you do want in life, you'll just rent, and it'll be delivered to you by drone. Now, because the quote, you'll own nothing, you'll be happy, actually came from an essay by a Danish politician,
But the title of that essay is way more dystopian. The title was, quote, Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, life has never been better, end quote.
Of course, this went viral, right? And the World Economic Forum was like, that was not a prediction we had. That was just a thought experiment, right? A scenario of, like, what if? That would be nice, right?
So that was one of their predictions. Now, number two, the U.S. will not be the world's leading superpower. And I think we're watching this sort of play out in the real world right now.
We're watching the U.S. effectively lose its reserve currency status. It is sort of shrinking into more of a regional power. Some people say this is already true. It's already not the global superpower.
It's just going to be acknowledged by more people by 2030. Prediction number three is they're going to be printing organs. And presumably that implies printing food in a lab as well.
And we are seeing evidence of this already because prediction number four is you will eat less meat because it's better for the environment and our health. In fact, you'll most likely eat processed bugs for your protein made in a lab somewhere.
You take the insects and you process it into the dairy alternative. It forms a rich and creamy liquid which looks air and air just like dairy. The infant milk is very rich in protein, fat, calcium, iron, and zinc, which is really good for you.
Prediction number five is that a billion people will be, quote, displaced by a climate and that you should prepare for welcoming refugees. You will be a minority in your nation, most likely.
Prediction number six is you'll be paying taxes if you emit carbon dioxide. Meaning, if you think you're clever and you don't want to drive an electric car because maybe you don't trust it, well, you'll be paying for that.
Prediction seven is kind of a throwaway if we're going to be going to Mars and maybe finding some alien life, but prediction number eight is buckle up because those Western values you have will be tested to their limit.
Now, a surprising number of all these predictions are already moving in this direction, slowly becoming reality. People generally tend not to like these changes, though. They resist them, which means there needs to be an opportunity
for the central planners to further this agenda along. A good example of this was 2020. The World Economic Forum saw an opportunity. In June of 2020, in the middle of the pandemic,
the founder of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, launched something called The Great Reset. He said the pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world.
He published a book called COVID-19, The Great Reset. And the idea was the pandemic had pretty much disrupted everything anyway, so this was their perfect moment to rebuild the economy around what they call stakeholder capitalism.
What is that? Klaus Schwab said, the world basically has three models to choose from. The first is shareholder capitalism, which is what most of the West follows, where companies make money for shareholders.
The second is state capitalism, which is basically what China does, where the government decides, the state decides, right? If this sounds familiar, it's the fight I talked about in my video on AI,
which is about who ends up controlling this technology and the economy. Is it the money people, or is it the government people? Schwab's answer was, neither of them.
His third option is something called stakeholder capitalism. Stakeholder capitalism, not to be confused with shareholder capitalism, says, quote, positions private corporations as trustees of society.
In other words, a company should not just answer to its owners, it should also serve the society, right? And it should work towards a set goal for everybody And in that essay he actually told us which goals he talking about which is the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goal
which, of course, is what Agenda 2030 is. So think about what all of this actually means. It's not the free market that's going to decide. It's not going to be the owners.
It's not going to be a communist-style system where the government owns everything. This is going to be a merger of both of them. The biggest corporations will work together with governments and global institutions,
and they will work together for these common goals. Common goals which the central planners have sort of set for the world a long, long time ago. So that is this. He even wrote that China's state capitalism will actually most likely evolve toward this stakeholder model of his.
So no matter which way you go, whether it's Western capitalism or Chinese state capitalism, where we're headed is sort of in the same direction. So, if you piece all of this together,
the United Nations basically writes all these goals. The World Economic Forum brings together the governments, the billionaires, and all the biggest companies to push all these goals forward. And then the asset management companies like BlackRock
use their money to make sure everyone stays in line. And now the person running BlackRock BlackRock is also helping run the World Economic Forum. Okay, so putting all of this together, here's my personal thoughts on it.
To me, Agenda 2030 is more or less exactly what's happening to the world and what I think will continue to happen. Because when I look at the world, I'm mostly amazed that humanity as a species
has reached this point where we're now at the replacement rate, right? Which is about 2.2 or 2.3. Meaning, we are headed to the extinction list, which is 2.1.
And one could argue that the main purpose of life is actually to create more copies of itself. It's for our species to perpetuate itself. And no, that long ago, that was true. We were actually worried that there was going to be too many people in the world.
But now we have the opposite problem. Now, if you think about this biologically, in order for an animal to stop reproducing, It has to essentially be held in captivity, just like animals in the zoo.
The conditions have to be so bad that collectively we're all like, oh, mating? Nah, I'm okay with that. I want to spare my child from my reality. Now, is that an accident or is that because of some external force that's guiding all that?
Now, if there is such a guiding force, let's think about it from the mind of that force. the central planners. Why might they want something like that? Sounds kind of evil, but it's actually nice.
Self-preservation. See, the central planners are looking around and they're like, there's too many mouths to feed. And there's going to be a lot of unproductive people soon because we're coming close to inventing
the last technology humans will ever need to make, which is AI and robots. And this technology might make us immortal someday. At the very least, that will extend our lives by a couple decades,
maybe a few centuries pretty soon, what's that going to do to wealth? Money. What it's going to do is, it's going to concentrate most of the wealth into the hands of the very few.
This is just math, if you understand how compound interest works. This is why Warren Buffett, for example, in 2020, his net worth was roughly $84 billion. But over 95% of his money
was actually made after he turned 65. He didn't get rich because he was a genius in his 20s. He got rich because he started super early and time grew his money exponentially.
But he had a normal lifespan. What if someone could live for centuries? What would happen is 99.99999% of the world's wealth would concentrate to the top 1%.
Now, history shows that when the economic conditions get bad enough, though, when there's a big enough divergence between the winners and the losers, there's revolutions.
No one votes their way out of these kinds of systems. Revolutions are the only way throughout history. In fact, Thomas Jefferson encouraged it with a famous quote. So I think they know what's coming based on history.
They're like, well, we can see the writing on the wall if this keeps going, right? we need less people in the world because the path from here to there there being that utopian world that Elon Musk talks about where no one needs money anymore
because robots and AI do everything for us well that path from here to that perfect world that's going to be extremely painful because this transformation does not happen overnight.
There have to be entire industries of people that have to be displaced. Like people who will lose their jobs and their incomes and their assets because they won't be able to afford them in this changing environment. These are dominoes and cascading effects.
And what is that going to do to society? It's going to make people angry. So here's how you might avoid that or soften it before something like a violent revolution. Usher in a global policy that creates a dependency on the state.
Make sure that everyone is on their best behavior. If you depend on the government for food and money, you're not going to step out of line. But just in case there's some potential for an uprising in the future,
maybe we can create some conditions that might soften that. Like what? Economic pressure. Maybe some disease. Maybe war. Maybe AI going rogue.
A combination of them. I feel like Morpheus right now is explaining to Neo how the world works. Is it really all that hard to believe? So maybe it's by design, and if it is, then I think we should expect to see more regional wars,
more conflicts, more disease, more weather catastrophes, more events throughout the world that lowers the population in one way or another, slows down that growth. That is my very pessimistic understanding of the world.
As I get older, it seems to be more and more prevalent in my mind. There is an optimistic one, too. The optimistic one is, maybe none of this is planned. Maybe all of this is just mouse utopia.
Universe 25. That was an experiment where in 1958, a scientist named John Calhoun built what he called a mouse utopia. It was a mouse city with unlimited food and water, no predators, no disease, and it had room for about 3,000 mice.
It started with just four pairs of mice, and at first the population exploded, peaking at around 2,200. The society was in perfect harmony, but at some point, their society started to break down.
Male mice, who couldn't find a role in society, withdrew and turned violent, started attacking things. Mothers abandoned or even attacked their young. And a group called the Beautiful Ones.
They completely stopped mending and fighting. They spent their days just eating, sleeping, and just grooming themselves. Births eventually stopped, and the whole colony died out, even though they never ran short of food or space.
His conclusion was that when a society meets every physical need that leaves no purpose or meaningful roles, it tends to destroy itself from the inside. Now, luckily for us, we are not mice,
so we are in control of our thoughts and our destiny, so we don't have to self-destruct in our own nihilism. But maybe that's what this is. So I honestly don't know which story is true.
Maybe it's a plan. Maybe it's a mouse utopia, or a bit of both. Or maybe you found yourself in a deep rabbit hole on YouTube at 2 a.m. and the algorithm thinks you like this kind of stuff. Go get some sleep. Either way, I focus on two things to prepare, which is ownership and independence.
If the direction of travel is a world where you own less, then I want to own things, like real property. and physical commodities that I can actually hold and see, right?
If money becomes digital and programmable, controllable, I want to own some of my wealth in a version that no one can freeze. No one can turn off, which for me is Bitcoin and self-custody.
Maybe a little bit of gold and silver. I'd like to avoid debt, keep some cash, keep a few months of food and basics around the house just in case. And also, I'm trying to pay attention to this stuff. if I'm wrong, the worst case is over-prepared, right?
That's fine with me. I'm going to go into a lot more detail in the premium member section with a full breakdown of how I'm positioning my investments with access to these videos a day early. Links are down below. Thank you so much for watching. I will see you here next time.
Take care.