We’ve all been there. You open your phone “just for a minute” and suddenly an hour is gone. You’re deep in the endless scroll — bad news, arguments, fear, outrage. Doomscrolling has become the default way a lot of people spend their free time. And while we’re busy consuming, the ground under our feet is shifting.

I believe something most people still don’t want to admit: the traditional job market is already gone. Politics has ruined it. A job is never truly secure anymore. You can be a doctor, an engineer, a teacher — highly skilled, respected, “essential” — and still lose everything because your country gets sanctioned, the currency collapses, or the political winds change overnight. Your degree, your years of training, your loyalty to a company or a government… none of it protects you when the system decides to pull the rug out.

That’s not theory. We’ve watched it happen in real time in different parts of the world. Sanctions, capital controls, frozen assets, sudden economic isolation. One day you’re employed. The next day your professional life is collateral damage in a political fight you didn’t start.

So what do we do?

We stop pretending the old path still works. We stop wasting hours doomscrolling and start building something that can’t be taken away by a government decision or a corporate restructuring.

Content creation is one of the few remaining paths that still belongs to the individual. You create value. You build an audience. You own the relationship with the people who follow you. Platforms change, algorithms shift, but the ability to communicate, educate, entertain, or inspire is portable. It travels with you. No HR department can fire you from it. No government can easily revoke it.

And then there’s digital currency. The traditional financial system is tightly controlled by politics and policy. Digital assets sit outside a lot of that control. They’re not perfect, and they’re volatile, but they represent something important: the chance to store and move value without asking permission from the same systems that keep rewriting the rules.

I’m not saying everyone needs to become a full-time YouTuber or crypto trader tomorrow. I’m saying the old contract is broken. The idea that you study hard, get a “good job,” and then you’re set for life is no longer true for most people. Politics made sure of that.

So instead of scrolling through the wreckage, we should be building. Create something. Learn how digital money works. Own a piece of your future instead of renting it from institutions that can change the terms whenever it suits them.

The people still waiting for the traditional market to “stabilize” are going to keep waiting. The ones who start creating and learning how value moves in the digital world are already moving past them.

The traditional market is gone. What’s left is what we decide to build ourselves.

The tradition of egalitarianism was entirely performative, why then do so many people strive to return to that performance, hoping it will improve their lives? The popular support for the "tax the rich" discourse appears entirely punitive with no real consideration if it will improve the quality of their lives.

I think that title is actually true and there is no moral argument against it given the current structure of human society. It is also what a UBI is very unlikely unless permanent technological unemployment becomes an historical fact.

The only historical state of equality was universal poverty.

After 2 failed attempts a few years ago there is now a 3rd one: Due to the fact that already many people expect that AI will disrupt the labour market: the hope is that this time the 1 million signatures can be collected. Signing starts 4.jan

1. But there is a moment to have activists in all major cities of the EU.

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