Ask HN: Where Are We Headed?

To a developed world from the citizen of less developed country:

Where are we headed? This is a late night thought from where I live.

I saw a tweet earlier leading to: https://www.julian.ac/blog/2025/09/27/failing-to-understand-the-exponential-again/

Then from Scott: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9183

Then from Sohl-Dickstein: https://x.com/jaschasd/status/1972360405885637021

Seriously, to survive with high standard in low income country requires earning $2k/month. To save would require $4k/month.

With AI automating, the demands from low income country is service industry is most likely to be gone.

The unrest in SEA is in news everyday. This is a pattern emerging across different countries.

Immigration/Brain Drain to developed world exacerbated this condition.

I am genuinely interested in knowing where are we headed and what are we going to do?

What is the merit in being human?

What is the merit in all of this? Who is profiting? Humanity or the elites?

I am not considering jobs, or anything. Just wondering, what will the objective value of money be when this technology is realized in full effect.