The world of today and that of tomorrow is radically different than that of yesterday. We’re going through the biggest transfer of wealth and the biggest societal and cultural change in modern history. By the end of this article, you’ll understand what’s one or two steps ahead. So, get ready as today we are presenting you with 15 changes in the new world. The world around us is changing at an accelerated pace, so, here are the biggest changes that you’ll experience.
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1. You don’t need degrees
Schools, as we know it, are done. The university experience is over. Kids today are learning from home over zoom. The local teachers weren’t equipped in the past to train kids to navigate the world they’ll be immersed in even a decade ago. The pandemic was the last nail in the coffin of a dramatically outdated educational system.
Why do you have a bored, underpaid, and underqualified teacher explain to your kid things that they can learn in the same fashion from the absolute best in the field? Picture this. The best math teacher in the world teaching math to everyone. It’s not a problem of scale anymore. Teachers still have a function as follow-ups to the lesson and offering support in the educational journey. But they are no longer the primary education source.
Teachers should be paid like athletes, where the absolute best of the best earn ridiculous sums of money because they’re the ones returning the most value for the consumer. We’re experiencing a drastic shift in education.
You’re asking kids to be focused in a four to five-hour zoom call when you know damn well you wouldn’t be able to do that. Education will be gamified in the next 3 years. You should be able to cooperate and enjoy the puzzle of learning.
Companies like Fortnite, Roblox, and Minecraft could easily serve as gateways to an educational metaverse that’s built properly. We see no reason why true education focused on teaching you how to solve problems and make decisions couldn’t be gamified as opposed to the traditional model focused on memorization and regurgitation of meaningless information. It is one of the good changes in the new world.
2. Hours in the office don’t matter
Nobody should care how long it takes for you to get the job done. Payment for services will soon be priced differently pay by the service instead of payment by the hour. Payment by hour incentives the service provider to take a longer time to finish their work when it should be the other way around.
Why are we punishing those who are good at their job and can get the same work done at a fraction of the time spent? The old system is flawed. With the rise of smart contracts and oracles that can read real-life data and securely send proof to the contract. Work-based on results is a superior form of remuneration.
As for those few things where deliveries are dependent on time, quantity, such as entertainment or one-on-one counseling. Live streaming payments are already being tested. Instead of paying for the full price of an online self-development conference, you could stream only the speaker of your choosing and not minute by minute, but second by second of content. The total cost will be incrementally lower than the entire ticket price.
Premium content consumption will soon be treated as a utility. Think about it. You pay for electricity based on how much of it you consume.
3. Your office or business is your laptop
Office buildings have taken over cities and have crushed the soul of the community in the process. Instead of having beautiful cities, we’ve been crushed with glass skyscrapers and neon lights. What a horrible way to live.
Nobody wants to come to the office anymore. Why waste hours of the day in transit when you can get the same work done from your laptop and use the remaining time to spend with your kids or on your hobbies.
The trade is obvious. The entire commercial real estate market is suffering from a big focus on office buildings. For the first time since the industrial revolution, we are looking at the collapse of the workplace. Building owners are converting their office buildings into apartments in a last-ditch effort to capture value. The number of office buildings converting to apartment spaces has almost doubled in 2021 compared to 2020. 41% of all conversions have been from corporate to residential.
Your home has never been more important which is why prices are going up like crazy. Real estate is proving to be the second-best store of value in this decade. Competing with bitcoin. With software eating the world. There isn’t much left for it to eat.
We are approaching the complete softwareization of the market and your entire business will be run from a single laptop that you can carry with you no matter where you choose to live.
4. Patriotism is replaced by chosen communities
There is a continuous loss of trust between the populace and the government. People are no longer trusting their elected officials to make the best decisions for the masses. We know they are corrupt. We know they bow their head to big corporations and we know they couldn’t care less about what we need or want but would sacrifice you in a blink of an eye for their betterment.
That’s why people no longer have that attachment to the home ground. The sense of belonging is no longer there. Nobody is representing you anymore. So we find communities of our own. We congregate around communities that share our values, our desires, and our purposes. This has been reflected in our behaviors on social media apps as well.
Community-driven apps and features have been a massive tick in adoption. “Communities are the center stage of the new world!”. Since you can live anywhere, work from anywhere, and most of your active time is spent online digital communities are becoming the norm.
“People will work for money but they die for recognition and to protect what they believe in”. Patriotism is struggling with the second half and we’re seeing massive migrations around the world where people want better returns for their contributions.
The healthcare system in the U.S is a joke. Tax brackets in California have transformed Loss Angeles into a barely livable city. This is why Americans are moving to Puerto Rico and Europeans are buying second homes in emirates like Dubai.
5. Platforms are stronger than governments
We saw this firsthand when facebook was deciding players in the united states elections and the Brexit referendum in the UK. nothing has been more humiliating to a nation-state than when twitter decides to turn off the mic on the president of the United States Donald Trump. It doesn’t matter who the person is holding the mic, but take a moment to think about the idea that a technology platform has the power to mute the leader of the most powerful military and one of the most powerful economies in the world.
“If you can silence a king, you are the king”. This is brewing a hatred towards the private enterprise that meddles with basic human freedoms. Humanity doesn’t want to have their digital presence monitored by a Zuckerberg or free speech to be banned and de-platformed if you go against the consensus of the cancel culture mob.
This is why Facebook is losing users. This is why Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse will never become a reality. And when we say metaverse we’re talking about the new version of the internet that’s coming under development.
Sure, platforms like Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram can have their room in the metaverse. But we sure as hell don’t think it’s a good idea for them to control the doors in the hallways.
This is an idea that we discussed with the founder of ethereum Vitalik Buterin. If platforms are not stronger than governments, then communities can make or break platforms. It’s time for an upgrade on the platform side of things as well.
6. The internet is the largest marketplace to ever exist
Every year the United Nations publishes a long report on trade and development. The conclusion of that document is pretty clear, it’s been estimated that the global internet traffic in 2022 will exceed all the internet traffic up to 2016. Emerging countries are accelerating their adoption of the internet and being onboard onto online commerce and content consumption. Digital goods are on the rise as well. And there are even multiple experts expecting the digital goods marketplace to rival that of physical goods in the following decades.
Media is already a full digital marketplace and with the rise of digital scarcity through NFTs. Most physical goods will be tracked and owned through digital correspondence. When you buy a house you get your ownership papers. You get a copy, the notary keeps a copy and the local government keeps a third. What if all of them are destroyed. You lose your proof of ownership.
This is exactly what ISIS did when they infiltrated Mosul. They burned land records to cause complete chaos. But with the proof of ownership in digital ledgers, the property can be traded anywhere in the world.
You can fractionally own a building on the other side of the world legally. The rent gets distributed to the token holders. Tokenized ownership and fractional investments are some of the biggest financial breakthroughs of our generation.
If in the past it was only the privilege to have the option of using financial instruments to build wealth. The internet, and more precisely the new internet will allow anyone from anywhere in the world to use even more powerful tools than ever available before.
7. Find your sense of purpose or feel lost
Society is changing fast. We’ve seen a decline in church and religion. This has made society more materializing and more pragmatic with their actions. It’s allowed our civilization to become richer and richer from a material perspective. We’ve run the experiment long enough and the data shows religion keeps people poor.
The richer the population of a country the less religion has a direct impact. But in the process of ridding ourselves of religion, we all lose something as collateral damage. It has to do with the idea of belonging to a physical community with a spiritual conscience.
This new generation is feeling a little lost and alone. Talk to any 20 or 30 year old and you’ll see that outside of immediate family and one to two close friends, they experience feelings of loneliness. This generation is searching for meaning. This entire world is in chaos and the rules of the game are changing before their eyes. They grew up in a world that is no longer there as they matured. Value systems are ending as well.
This is the main reason why we’ve seen a rise in social issues. People simply want to belong. So they join groups that accept them.
8. Your reputation is your CV
With degrees becoming irrelevant we still need to see proof of ability if we are going to engage in economic trade. That’s where your online activity comes into play. Twitter is your resume. Your Youtube channel is your interview or proof of work. Showcase that you build and those who want to buy it or hire you will find it if you are good enough.
If you want to go to any company in the world start working as if you are working for the company already. We guarantee that if what you put out there is valuable and contributes to the success of the company, they will find you.
If back in the day the phrase, “if you build it, they will come” used to apply to customers. But now, it has migrated to quality workers that are doing the building and companies that are coming to them.
9. War is outdated and seen as primitive
Look at what is happening in Ukraine right now. Tanks, military men shooting metal slabs and threatening a complete societal collapse with nukes. How primitive does that idea of going to war sound to this generation? Because that sense of patriotism has gone out the window. What would it take for the government to convince you to go to war and kill people you do not know.
These are power games of the past. We have the technology now. Drones, unmanned planes, economic trade, and innovation wares, when the goal is to save the planet and create a civilization backup on mars, starting a war seems completely out of the narrative. It is almost neanderthalian in nature.
If countries want to compete, do it in technological progress, the country that generates the most value for humankind gets to sit at the top of the leaderboard and we’ll all calp for them. But unfortunately, that is not the case. Humans are selfish beings, drooling overpowering and afraid to ridicule or lose status. It usually takes a century for the leaderboard to change and we’re seeing live, the collapse of the United States economy and the rise of China. The problem is that although China is winning, the economic volume war, their values when it comes to human rights, privacy, and freedom are not aligned with those of countries who are crushing it in that department.
See European countries, Japan, and even the United States. Only time will tell to see how this plays out.
10. The new rich have different values
You know how old money wanted to have the largest mansion possible. Now, those properties are on the market and nobody is buying them. And it is not because people can not afford them, because every day the world minds a new billionaire. Every 17 hours.
Here is your reality might glitch a bit. Someone new becomes a millionaire every 6 seconds. These are self-made people who do not necessarily look at money and wealth the same way the previous generation did.
The new rich want to be happy and fulfilled, while Jeff Bezos is taking down bridges for his mega-yacht to be able to exit in an attempt to win the measuring contest. The new rich don’t put that much emphasis on public displays of wealth or the massive consumption of resources. sure, you want to live comfortably but the houses of the new rich are smart and sustainable homes. They offset their climate footprint and invest their wealth into life-changing tech.
The who is got the bigger home narrative is for the past generation. The new rich simply want to have enough to live a simple, comfortable life not having to worry about money problems, and use the excess to build cool things.
Just look at the youngest self-made millionaire Sam Bankman Freed. He barely cares about material wealth and is donating his fortune at a faster pace than any billionaire before. We are going through a cultural shift and it is time for our generation to put their foot down and decide what we are going to do with the wealth that we generate.
11. Old people can no longer offer advice
We have officially reached the point of complete disconnect. Think of it like this. For the boomer generation, they have got 60 years of a certain speed of change. They were raised in the aftermath of winning a war where wealth was abundant and costs were low. You could buy a house with a regular job. Now you need a doctorate and a working spouse to maybe see the light at the end of the tunnel in your lifetime.
Their brains matured in an offline world and are unable to comprehend the complex implications of a collapsing economic system of the societal uprising where the privilege you enjoyed hasn’t been transferred through generations and it is not that the rules of the game have changed. This is a completely new game.
Working hard no longer build wealth because the currency is devaluing faster than you can produce it. You need a mix of builder and sales mentality. You cannot spend 10 years getting good at one thing. Because in 10 years the entire market will change 4 or 5 times.
We live in a period of non-linearity. Where instead of walking in a straight line to your goal, you have to jump from one moving tile to another moving tile in the hopes that jump after the jump you’ll eventually become closer. This generation is off fending for itself and figuring out where it’s going in the process.
12. Privacy is more important than security
One thing became clear in recent years, we care about our privacy. The state will always scare people into trading off their privacy in exchange for perceived security. You know where you are most scared in a cage. Nothing can get in the cage while you are in it. You are no longer free but you are secure.
The question becomes are you willing to live your life in a cage just for the sake of perceived security. What is there really to be afraid of. This new world wants to be left alone. It wants to be free. To feel alive. This is a major difference between this world and the old one. We would rather be less secure but free than secured and controlled.
Look at the populace of North Korea or even China or the US. the fact that they monitor where you are, what you like, who are you with, what you talk about, what you don’t like is fringing on your rights. This is one of the reasons we’re moving away from a cash-based society. They want to be able to track where your purchases go. This is why they are not allowing you to buy anything over 10 000 US dollars in cash.
It is about continuous monitoring and control. Disguised as protectionism from illicit activity, when the reality we’ve seen illicit activity still getting a green light from them. People don’t want to be held to a standard that others are free to ignore. This is why we have seen a rise in the privacy narrative.
Facebook lost over 200 billion dollars after Apple limited its data-mining abilities last year. Apps like Signal and Telegram have been growing like crazy because people want to protect what’s theirs.
Protecting your online activity has become paramount. You can take control of your online activity with simple tools like a VPN. privacy is a key narrative moving forward and this new generation is willing to pay to take back what’s theirs.
13. Power needs to be decentralized
The system is flawed. We need a better system. Although centralization has its perks and is proven to be crucial in the development of the old world to get us to this point today, it is no longer needed across the board. The entire financial world is on the verge of disruption through decentralization.
Banks are one of the richest entities in the world and it turns out that everything that they can do can be automated. Securely stored in code and processed at a fraction of the cost. The idea of electing officials that vote on your behalf on issues that you care about is flawed. We’ve got face IDs, blockchains, and digital passports.
The time has come for us to vote on the issues that are important to us on an app on our phones. Direct democracies are probably one of the immediate solutions to be implemented. Especially if they prove to be effective on the local level.
You are paying your taxes every single year. Do you know where that money goes? Probably not. What if you could handpick where a portion of those funds will go. If there are potholes on your street you could prioritize them or focus on efforts on upgrading your neighborhood school or park. In the past, we’ve delegated powers to others and they have mismanaged it. In the new world, power is coming back to the citizen.
14. Developed societies are borderless
At the beginning of this article, we mentioned that your entire business or your office now fits on your laptop. We also mentioned the rapid digital infrastructure development and the distrust we all have in our local authorities people are moving around the planet like never before.
Why should I stay? Give me a reason to live here, contribute to here, pay taxes here, to use my skills and my ability locally, where you live is probably the most important decision you’ll ever make in life. Geography determines the culture. It determines the people you’ll hang out with, who you’re going to marry, what business opportunities you’ll follow, the food you eat, and the air you breathe. If this is the new world best believe that people are looking for the highest return on their time.
15. Wealth is abundant and accessible to everyone
This new world no longer has gatekeepers. You’re no longer chosen by a higher hand that will give you want you to want. In this new world, you build it yourself. You don’t need anyone’s permission to do it. Online, you have the same voice as a multi-billion dollar company. You and they are fighting for attention. You have all the tools necessary to learn build and grow.
If there ever was a time when meritocracy was at its peak it is now. There is never been so much money, so much wealth generated in such a short period. If you are smart and focused, it won’t take you more than 5 years to build more than enough wealth to live a comfortable life.
People are scared of change holding on to the relics of the past. Those who embrace the new will be the biggest winners of this change. The list could go on and on as we’re sure you have experienced changes firsthand in your life.
So, we are passing the question, down to you. How is your world-changing? Share your insights with the community, because your input is quite valuable and it is shame not to share with others like you.
16. Education and community are the keys to thriving in the new world
Over the years. We pondered what it takes to not only maintain the momentum of change but also make the most out of the new opportunities that arise. The asymmetric opportunity lies in a consistent rhythm of consumption that keeps you plugged in and the people that you spend your time with the community that you’re part of.
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