Today we choose violence. Let's say the
quiet part out loud. Here are 15 things
that should keep you up at night.
Welcome to Alux, the place where future
billionaires come to get inspired.
Number one, the cost of living squeeze
is not over. We're slowly moving from I
can't buy a house to I can't buy
anything. We're halfway there. Your
income might have gone up by 25% but
expenses increased by 2 to 3x. Nobody
wants to have babies primarily because
they're no longer optimistic about the
future. They don't want to have kids
while paying rent. Even more so when
they're uncertain if they can feed
themselves. There's no incentive to stop
the squeeze. Your rent doubling is
someone else's portfolio play. Do you
realize just how much stress a mammal
has to be under to voluntarily not
procreate?
Number two, your elected leaders have
separate agendas from the population. We
are in the age of extraction. The
comfort you've enjoyed was supported by
looting resources at the expense of
others. And the wars are now more
visible than ever. Your future is being
shaped by people older than your
grandparents who won't be alive to see
what their decisions lead to. You don't
live in a democracy. It's all theater
anyway. 50 lobbyists control your future
and you don't even know who they are.
Governments around the world obey the
interests of others instead of their own
citizens. The people running the country
don't use the systems they built for
you. different schools, different
hospitals, different airports, different
rules, and they are not citizens of the
same country. Not to mention, they're a
part of a cabal of pedos blackmailing
each other to get more powerful for
monetization purposes and only not to
get sued. Allegedly,
number three, extreme fraud and the
government plans to tax you more.
Communism disguised as socialism is
rising. The government wants to change
the way taxes work to go full
surveillance mode. They want to tax
wealth, not income. Sure, they'll say
they'll start with billionaires to get
everyone on board and then expand that
tax to everyone. Every tax in history
that started with the rich ended on the
middle class within 20 years. It was
only 1% one time for an emergency in
1913. And now look around. They already
taxed your income. Then they taxed what
you bought. Then they taxed the property
you own. They tax the services you need
to maintain it. You'll give more money
to the government than you keep for
yourself and your family. Cash is being
phased out and most people are cheering.
They won't let you take all of your
money out of the bank and limit spending
it in cash. The official Government
Accountability Office of the US says
approximately $500 billion are fraud per
year. By every estimate, 20% of the
government is bloated with government
having the highest job security right
now. Fraud is the part they admit is
broken and they say they're looking into
it, but they are the benefactor of the
fraud. Number four, you can't support
your parents if they get really sick.
Hell, you're not even sure you can
support yourself. Most families are
already exhausted, and it's more of a
question of when, not if. More likely
than not, you are your parents'
retirement plan. The 2025 national
median cost of a private nursing home
room in the US is $355
per day.
129,575
a year. AARP estimates that 59 million
US adults provide unpaid care to adults
with disabilities or complex health
needs. Nursing homes cost more than Ivy
League tuition and the system expects
love to cover what insurance doesn't. If
you're lucky, you're going to be in your
50s when your parents pass away, so that
inheritance might cover the rest of your
mortgage and student loans.
Number five, dreaming about the life you
could have lived. People are no longer
optimistic about tomorrow. At best,
they're neutral. We'll see what happens
is literally the voice of our
generation. You can't make a 5-year plan
when once in a-lifetime events happen
like every 6 months. Happiness is when
the gap between what you want your life
to be and what your life is is zero or
very narrow. Today, having a miserable
job as a privilege, and even that won't
be here for long, and we'll talk about
AI at number eight. The disparity
between your life and that of the ones
well off has never been more in your
face than it is now with social media.
Only Fans models out earn your family
tree while jet setting around the world.
6% of girls under 30 years old have an
only fans. To feel morally superior and
to be able to sleep at night, you think
the only way to get rich is to be born
into a rich family, sell sex, or
basically do crime. The rich pay for
access knowing this decade might be the
only shot at wealth they ever get. So
screw it. Go to alux.com/app and see if
you've got it in you to get rich. Join
other rich people into protecting each
other and building wealth together.
Otherwise, you're kind of screwed. After
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Number six, Civil War between the rich
and the poor, won by the rich. The
middle class is the new poor. Poverty
used to mean having nothing, but now it
means paying monthly for everything.
Separate rules, separate lives, separate
food, separate health, separate
everything. They're building walls, and
they're pushing you out. The world is
about to get its first trillionaire and
then its second and third and so on.
When individuals have higher purchasing
power than small nations, the majority
is done. It's no longer aspirational.
Oxfam's analysis of UBS wealth data says
that we, the world's richest 1%, own
more wealth than the bottom 95% of
humanity combined.
Number seven, bigger businesses are
consolidating and taking over
everything. Rent is just another
subscription that you've normalized.
Recurring payments means you're no
longer renting from a mom and pop that
moved to Florida to retire, but to a
hedge fund or a private equity that sees
your need for housing as cash flow.
That's why every street looks exactly
the same. Small shops are gone. It's
basically a bank, a vape shop, coffee
shop, fast food chain, a phone repair
spot on repeat. This is called the
homogenization of high streets or the
clone town effect. Everything is gray,
everything industrial, cookie cutter,
soullessness. McDonald's went from
looking like this to looking like this.
The reason is private equity. If
McDonald's leaves, well, they can just
slap a Taco Bell logo on it, paint the
corner purple, and they're ready to go.
Yes, it's more efficient, but it's lame.
They own your workplace and they own
where you spend your money, but they
call it freedom.
Number eight, AI is not only replacing
you at your job, it might replace you as
a consumer. The only jobs relevant for
the next 5 years are the ones training
the AI how to do what you do. As of
making this video in May 2026, the term
oneperson teams is used on the regular.
Companies are learning to grow without
hiring you. Companies are legal entities
and soon agents will be too. You will
probably end up working for AI. Your
boss already relies on it more than you
think. He's just a proxy. You're going
to be one of the first humans alive to
face irrelevance, not exploitation. A
non-living entity will decide to fire
you because it can just clone itself to
do your job. The ironic part is it
actually does it better than you because
to survive you literally need to be
world class at something. Even humanmade
content like this will eventually be the
old lady selling handmade overpriced
jewelry at the farmers market. Sure,
they'll still be an occasional hippie
like you subscribing to the channel, but
most people are okay with subway surfers
and rehashed Reddit stories.
Number nine, you're getting dumber and
you like it. Now, this is probably the
largest human downgrade in history.
Recent studies and neuroscientific
research indicate that Gen Z is the
first generation in modern history to
score lower on IQ tests and cognitive
measures such as memory, reading
comprehension, and attention compared to
previous generations. We've peaked. Life
got so good and so easy that we didn't
need to develop better brains. You can't
watch a movie without picking up your
phone. If anything takes longer than 30
seconds, you hit that 2x speed button.
Many of you are watching this on 2x
right now. Be honest if you were in the
comments. You can't focus. Your brain
thinks of doom scrolling as arrest when
it's actually erosion. The average adult
attention span on any screen is now 47
seconds. 20 years ago, it was 2 1/2
minutes. For people 18 to 34, sustained
focus is down to only 7 seconds. You're
either watching the same old TV shows on
rotation because the new ones are dumb
and mass-produced, or you're watching
reality TV and standup comedy. You can't
eat without watching something and
you're calling 15 to 20 minute videos a
documentary.
Number 10, you're outsourcing thinking
and decisions. You don't choose music
anymore. The playlist does. You don't
choose what to watch, the feed does. You
don't choose where to eat. The rating
does, or more honestly, whatever the
biggest discount on the app is today
that draws your choice. Your beliefs are
shaped by the echochamber algorithm to
the point where others can influence a
culture and a nation's narrative. With
the attention span decimated, how many
people default to talking to AI for
serious situations? Stats show that
frequent AI users score significantly
lower on critical thinking. Chat GPT is
trained on average people and average
content. When you ask it a question,
unless it has specific training data on
your exact situation, it'll default to
what it was able to scrape off of Reddit
and other comment sections. If you
believe that ChatGpt, Gemini, or Clo are
smarter than what you can think of on
your own, you are based on your own
deduction below the average person. The
founders of these platforms are shocked
that people trust their products. What
happens when your leader decides to
think about another country by talking
to chat GPT or Grock? Number 11. How
lonely you feel and how you don't
belong. You know more than you should
about everyone you know, but you don't
talk to anyone, do you? You spend the
majority of your day under artificial
light looking at a blue screen. You've
got a separate identity for when you're
out in public from when you're home by
yourself. You don't go to church because
they're forprofit pedos. We would say
allegedly, but we all know it. You've
moved away from family because they
weren't supportive and dad was on the
homophobic side. You don't live in a
village because manual work is ew. Your
neighbors are weird or old, so you don't
talk to them. Your co-workers come and
go every month. Local shops, we've
already talked about them in what we
used to call third places, like piazas,
that's town squares, and places to just
hang out, have been architected out or
taken over by homeless people. Streamers
are not your friends, and the people
from your favorite podcasts don't know
you exist. Most of the people you engage
with, you're either paying or they're
paying you. Community has a logo and a
feature that you pay for. We all crave
belonging, but nobody wants to be a
villager. 57% of Americans report being
lonely. 52% of workers feel lonely at
their job. Loneliness raises your
mortality risk on par with smoking 15
cigarettes a day. How ridiculous is it
that we've come so full circle as a
society that now going out, drinking,
making some friends, chatting with
people when you're having a smoke is
actually a superior way to live from a
human standpoint than what we have
fought so hard to overcome.
Number 12, your private life is public
now. You know what your ex had for lunch
and they know where you went on holiday.
Everything about you is for sale and it
costs basically nothing. There are over
750 registered data brokers in the US
alone. They have your address, your
income, your medications, your kinks,
your menstrual cycle, the GPS pings on
every restaurant you ate at this year,
and a probability score on whether or
not you will vote. In 2025, California
found that 33 of those brokers were
openly selling Americans data to
entities tied to China, Russia, North
Korea, and Iran. Five of them were
selling precise geoloccation data. Your
medical data used to be private, but now
it isn't anymore. All hospital records
flow through Palunteer, Microsoft,
Google, and Oracle, all purchased vast
libraries of health data. When 23 andMe,
the DNA analysis lab, went bankrupt,
that data was auctioned off to the
highest bidder. They could clone you if
they wanted to, and you would never
know. Everything you purchase is
tracked. Everything you post can and
will be used against you in court,
including AI searches. And free speech
will get videos like this one
shadowbanned.
Number 13, your income has never been so
unstable. The concept of a career is
dead. Now you have income streams, which
sounds really cool when you say it until
you realize a career was something you
could rely on while the streams dry up.
You could be great at your job and still
get fired because the business needs to
show efficiency. The internet allowed
everyone to build a business, but with
one algorithm change, you can lose 90%
of your distribution overnight. A single
income is a point of failure, so you're
in a constant fightor-flight situation.
In Q1 of 2026 alone, more than 92,000
tech workers got fired. Almost half of
those cuts were directly attributed to
AI. Every cost in your life is monthly,
but emergencies are random and your
income is we'll see. Promotions are now
a lateral move with extra
responsibility. Your skills have a
halflife of 18 months. Your business is
pulled to shreds. and you worry about
your employees and about yourself.
Number 14, the food you eat is processed
and you no longer touch grass unless you
pay for it as a vacation. Never in
history have people been on so many
holidays. Not because we're these
cultural explorers. No, because we need
to escape from the misery of our
everyday lives. But everywhere you go,
it's more or less the same fried food,
the same burnt coffee with a different
color logo on it. American food is not
food. 55% of calories the average
American eats come from ultrarocessed
foods. For kids, it's more like 62%.
Supplements, gummies, and powders are
going through the roof. Instead of
spending time outside and eating natural
food, we literally invented peptides and
GLP-1 drugs to numb down the part of our
brain that's processing reality. On top
of that, we're also incredibly wasteful.
We eat so much, we throw away much more.
We have an insatiable appetite for more.
Healthy food is just for the rich right
now. The poor get diabetes. The middle
class gets ompic. The rich get a private
chef and 8 acres in Montana. And number
15, you're going to be alive for the
moment something irreversible happens.
Empires usually die slowly. You don't
really get to watch. This time you do.
You're going to live through a moment
where you wake up and something you took
for granted no longer exists. The
dollar, free speech, the right to
assemble, a border, a country, a career
path, a version of the internet that
wasn't owned end to end. You don't
believe that could happen, but it will.
How powerless you are to change
anything. Democracy might not survive
the next 20 years, and you're going to
watch it happen in real time. We'd run
out of something. An idiot might think
mutual destruction is better than
defeat, and it's enough to have one of
them anywhere in the world for this to
go south. AGI might happen. People will
worship it. Election results could be
ignored. A new type of pandemic splits
society into groups. The rich enhance
their brains or artificially fuse with
AI to form a new human AI species.
Humanoid robots will walk among us. Some
people will have sex with the robots.
Probably a lot of them will. But what's
keeping you up at night? Let us know in
the comments. And here's the bonus ideas
that didn't make it to this 15 list.
History is fake. Conspiracy theories are
more right than wrong. Your kid will not
have a normal childhood. The story of
you was written by people who needed you
to behave a certain way, and you've
never questioned it. And the rich aren't
buying nicer versions of what you buy.
They're buying different things. All
right. Thanks for venting out with us
today, Aluxer. Our plan is to keep
growing our wealth, and this protects us
and our family, so at least we have a
little bit more time to deal with
whatever the changes may be. This was a
pretty random video, I know, but hey,
it's for the true Aluxers. So, really,
what has been keeping you guys up at
night? Despite all of these, we still
remain optimistic about our ability to
embrace whatever the future will throw
at us. It's the resilient ones who will
thrive. And people like us, we're
nothing if not resilient. We'll see you
back here next week with a long tactical
video. We promise.