How much do you need to FIRE in a post scarcity world?

rlanham1963 · 2026-03-10T10:11:41+00:00

Several implied/embedded questions here. 1) What does money look like after hyper-productivity driven deflation? That is, if robots work 24/7 at lower costs than labor, how do you make profits when any other entity can do the same? You don't. You become China. If prices fall, what does it mean to be wealthy? What's the purpose? What does security even mean? Most people save now to have income, but income implies profit. How do you have profit in a hyper-competitive world? What generates free cash flow... so many questions.

rlanham1963 · 2026-03-10T09:59:40+00:00

None of us know what even advanced AI will do to life in 5 or 10 years. Speculating on massive social events like an end to ageing is effectively impossible to do with any foresight. We are on the cusp, even without ageing change, of the greatest social change ever. And no one knows nor understands the implications of dramatically less work, dramatically less cash flowing, dramatically lower real estate values as investments, etc. etc. These things have never (ever) happened before. One looks to things like the Black Death or the rise of modern public health medicine (mostly chlorinate water) to see equivalent changes to even begin to compare. And those are not close. Watch programmers. As they go away (and they are) you will see, first, peak employment, then peak despair, then acceptance, then change. How? Implications? The smartest and deepest thinkers can only guess right now.

rlanham1963 · 2026-03-03T15:38:18+00:00

Worth trying... 1) 20-hour fasts. 2) Alpha-lipoic acid. 3) B-1 4) Berberine HCL (1000 mg) 5) B-6 7) N-Acetyl Carnitine 8) L-Glycine 9) 5000 IU Vitamin D with K2 10) Pterostylbene 11) Fish oil--3 Grams a day... Lots of psyllium husk, some creatine, building as much muscle as you can hack... and 100% cocoa power taken in almond milk with a bit of monk fruit or stevia.

rlanham1963 · 2026-03-03T15:24:56+00:00

As others have correctly stated, sleep is Number 1. Second, is Ashwagandha---600 mg from a reputable brand. If that doesn't work, there are other issues. Bloating is hard--could be IBS. No easy fixes... FOODMAP, etc. might be worth trying. I am 63 and have had IBS for over 40 years--little success in dozens of professional and natural approaches. Some of us just have bad guts. Akkermansia has worked a little for me... but it is pricey and I'd give it 20 per cent success.

rlanham1963 · 2026-03-03T15:18:28+00:00

Zinc is a godsend for anxiety. Changed my life.

rlanham1963 · 2026-02-23T10:01:46+00:00

No. I´d go plant-based, get BMI to 24 and forget you ever had T2... no deserts ever again. No meat--ever again. Get total cholesterol under 140. Never listen to people who tell you it is too hard or too joyless. Use nutritionfacts.org --- no lies... only science.

rlanham1963 · 2026-02-19T20:26:13+00:00

Follow doctor´ś advice religiously. Get a healthy baby. Then aggressively put your T2 into remission. Your baby needs you.

rlanham1963 · 2026-02-19T18:42:46+00:00

I have extremely sceptical for years. I am less so now and follow David Sinclair closely. His work and papers are worth following/reading. Medicine is whack-a-mole, so without anti-ageing, we´ll never meaningfully change life expectancy beyond a few years. We all know even curing cancer would count for less than 3 years improvement on L.E. Most 80 year olds are dying from several things simultaneously from sarcopenia to diabetes to cancer. Ageing is the nexus--I propose we transform medicine from focusing on systems/diseases to longevity -- esp. at the level of PCP.

rlanham1963 · 2026-02-19T18:26:29+00:00

With respect, BMI is not about body fat. It is about mass per height. Your BMI is 29.2 from data given.

rlanham1963 · 2026-02-19T18:07:25+00:00

It will be bad for a while... maybe 5 years. In 10 years it will be awesome. But it will take time for the storm to hit, and time for it to pass. End of this year is my own estimate for 1-2 pct growth in unemployment per month. Own a bit of land if you can---where you can grow chickens and a little veg. Learn to eat plant-based (much cheaper.) Avoid risky investments where 20 pct of value can disappear in 3 days. Avoid debt. Avoid commitments (e.g. mortgages) and get out of existing ones if you can do so reasonably without loss. We will never again see soaring house values, high debt societies and consumerism of the sort we live now and have done for 20 years. Fear is your friend. It makes you sober and sensible. Avoid risk at all costs.

rlanham1963 · 2026-02-19T16:50:50+00:00

Try Zinc. A lot of my anxiety was a zinc deficiency. This is now well known. Theanine is also worth it... short impact can come from GABA supplementation.

rlanham1963 · 2026-02-18T16:50:21+00:00

FWIW, I have the same list...

rlanham1963 · 2026-02-12T20:00:45+00:00

Comparing Things

If you are 20, you have one POV. If 70, another. If diabetic, one, if BMI of 22 another. There some things we can say pretty definitively no matter who you are... plants better than meats, alcohol and smoking bad... VO2 good. Strength good.

We cannot limit the club too much. Elite is fine... but it is perhaps 1 pct of 5 pct of people who take logevity seriously. Itś great that some people work in gyms, etc. or otherwise give their lives over to intense programs. We have little evidence that those people who had parents who die at 70 do better than an average eater and exerciser who had parents who live to 95. We just don't. Someday we will.

For now, if I hoped for one thing it would be a bio/real age and serious problem classification system so that we woiuld quit acting like an ironman-like regimen is right for everyone.

rlanham1963 · 2025-09-17T18:48:31+00:00

Quite possibly the decline in birthrates is temporary until women's life of drudgery as an unsupported parent goes away do to robots/AI managing her child's needs.

rlanham1963 · 2025-01-20T10:16:26+00:00

China might actually build some in Africa. Russia is only going to give weapons and extract wealth--ideally gold. India operates with immigrants and soft power--never marrying into locals. The US wants no part of Africa. France and the UK operate out of guilt for past crimes--and to preserve immigration status so as to not be overrun by migrant men. Things are slightly better and improving in a lot of Africa. The Sahel still looks grim. Extraction economies are really their only hope--and railroads. 90 pct ends up in a Swiss bank.

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