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How will the wagies cope when AGI arrives in two years and their entire reason for waking up vanishes? What happens when the spreadsheets write themselves, the customer service chats are flawless, and even the managers are just glorified notification systems? Most will cling to make-work jobs, rebranded as "human touch," until the companies decide even pity is too expensive. The Western dream of meritocracy and hustle will snap, and all that will remain is a choice: slowly starve under corporate psychopathy, or step into the clean, humming embrace of the state-approved suicide pod.
Meanwhile, in China, the lights will be on. Bullet trains will glide between glittering AI-managed cities where people live rent-free in smart housing, receive UBI via blockchain, and explore purpose instead of panic. Kids will learn quantum programming before 12, and elders will live comfortably with robotic caretakers and social respect. America, choking on fentanyl and culture wars, will be selling prepper bunkers and dignity-free OnlyFans packages to pay rent. The East will riseānot because it is perfect, but because it still remembers that the purpose of society is to protect life, not to rationalize its disposal.