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You wake up in the morning, and as you get up, your bed makes itself behind you. As you enter the bathroom the shower starts running at your favorite temperature.  Meanwhile in the kitchen, the coffee machine is brewing the best cup of joe you’ll ever taste. 

After you exit the auto-washing shower, a machine spins your clothes for the day over to you. It holds your pants open for you and buttons your shirt up. You realize you’re one of the few, who’s living the good life. Thank goodness you had the foresight to see what was coming. 

The year is 2030, and you didn’t get a house full of all these luxuries by accident. You spotted a trend back in 2016, that changed the game for you. You saw the rise of the robots!

Back in 2016, you realized we were coming to the renaissance time for software. It was getting easier and easier to make software. At the same time, you saw how software companies were partnering up with robots left and right. Companies like Tesla and their self driving cars. Google and their iRobot prototypes. Amazon with Alexa, It’s no secret the future of software had to be for robots. 

For decades now, workers have complained about robots taking their jobs and they were right. You’ve seen McDonald’s replace cashiers with ATM type machines. Bank tellers went out in 2018. By 2020 Realtors worked for almost minimum wage due to phone apps with special codes and cameras a standard in every home. 

You’ve seen 1000s of “un-replaceable” jobs be lost. You were lucky enough to see the trends and took action. You started looking for robot proof investments. Investments like flipping homes. Creating cheap software. And ultimately, owning your own robots. In a world where everyone was being replaced by robots, you were smart enough to own the robots.

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I’m no expert, but the above story makes a helluva lot of sense. When big companies like Google, Amazon and Tesla are creating robots, right in front of our faces, don’t you think it’s time to take them seriously? I sure do! There’s an old saying. It’s one of my all time favorites. It’s from one of my early mentors named Buggs Bunny. Buggs always said “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” and I don’t see how anyone is gonna beat the coming robot trend.

I’m not over here saying a bunch of doom and gloom stuff. I’m just over here merely observing a trend that is right in front of our faces. It’s no longer science fiction. With the Large Hadron Collider in operation, and Space X shooting self landing rockets to Mars, it’s pretty safe to say the future is now. 

That being said, it’s time to make the most of what you got, while you got it. If you have even the slightest fear that your job may be one that’s lost to the coming software/robot rush, you better start making moves now. You need to invest in robot proof businesses and industries. 

The idea is to have enough money to either own your own software, and a fleet of specialized robots, or the company that services them. I’ve put together a plan for now that will bankroll me into the future. I realize that the 1% will most likely be the people who have the right robots. I want to make sure I’m in the 1%

Now there’s always the chance that robots will work for us for free, do everything we need, and all we have to do is play games and party all day and night. While is sounds great and utopian, you know how our planet it works. A few greedy people tell the other 7 billion how to live. That’s just the way it goes. Your job is to be one of the greedy few. If not, and you wait until it’s too late, you’ll be forever stuck in the bottom 7 billion.

I’m no nut-case. I’m not here saying it’s the end of the world. What I’m doing it planting a seed in your head of what’s to come. So what if I’m wrong? But what if I’m right?  Either way, it’s better to be prepared than to be left behind.