Own Nothing And Be Happy Is Being Rebranded As “Affordable Living As A Service” (ALaaS)

Own Nothing And Be Happy Is Being Rebranded As “Affordable Living As A Service” (ALaaS)

Jacob M. Thompson

No matter how one might try to sugarcoat it, most people don’t like hearing that the global economic and social framework is shifting towards a model that says “You’ll own nothing and be happy” – a moniker that was coined roughly a decade ago by the World Economic Forum.

As discussed in my report last month, “‘Money Faileth:’ A Repeat Of Biblical History Forecasting The Collapse Of World Economies Forcing Societies Into Deeper Enslavement,” this move to transform world populations into “forever renters” is happening quite rapidly.

So now that more and more people are increasingly waking up to the reality that most things are turning into a service or subscription, lending and leasing in perpetuity to a corporation (with hidden end-user license agreements that change on a whim), with no real opportunity to own things outright anymore – globalists and futurists are redefining this new paradigm.

The latest buzzword and acronym being floated around is “Affordable Living As A Service” (ALaaS). 

Mark Donovan, founder and executive director of the Denver Basic Income Project – “the first and largest project in the United States studying the impact of providing a guaranteed income to families and individuals experiencing homelessness” – coined the term purportedly to advocate for workers displaced by rapidly evolving technological innovations.

Peter Diamandis, MD, a leading tech mogul and co-founder of transhumanist Singularity University, endorsed Donovan’s vision in an exchange on X. 

Diamandis wrote: “Love this idea from Mark Donovan: “Affordable Living as a Service” (ALaaS). His goal by the end of the decade: Provide Housing, food, energy, data and transportation for $250 / month.  Denver Basic Income Project (seeded with my Telsa gains) and UBI are foundational elements.”

Donovan replied: “Thanks Peter. As automation, AI and humanoid robotics accelerate exponentially in 2025, UBI could create the stability needed for a smooth transition to this new economy. Innovation and an abundance mindset can create widespread prosperity. Our 2024 Impact Report was just released at @denverbip.”

“Elites would like nothing more than for average “useless eaters” to take their UBI checks as their jobs are obsoleted, and to live in densely populated Smart Cities / 15 Minute Cities, consigned to virtual past-times and entertainments, dwindling procreation, dwindling wealth, and political disempowerment.”

Mainstream media has repeatedly tried to downplay the emergence and rapid integration of artificial intelligence into the workplace as a great thing, a necessary innovation that will both accelerate and ease productivity, and will not strip people of their jobs and usefulness, and those that raise questions and concerns are disparaged and labeled as “conspiracy theorists.”

However, fairly recently OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted that AI will obviously displace workers, maybe not rapidly overnight tomorrow at first, but eventually the transition will come hard and fast. Deadline reported:

CEO of ChatGPT parent OpenAI Sam Altman said he expects the economic disruption caused by artificial intelligence “to take a little longer than people think but then be more intense than people think,” hitting a slightly ominous note at the New York Times DealBook conference.

He’s talking about “superintelligence,” which is on the way and is the idea that “you could give an AI system a … task you could give a smart human. That is the kind of thing I would expect.”

“The societal issues” will come he said at the annual NYC gathering. To make it safe, “there are gong to have to be some policy issues and global coordination to a degree that we will rise to the occasion, I hope.”

The threat is real. Most white-collar work is going away because AI agents, algorithms and robots will replace those jobs. The WEF has said that by 2027, 83 million jobs will have been affected and replaced by AI. The IMF said in January that 60% of jobs will be affected or replaced by AI. I’ve been warning that skills such as coding were fleeting fast, and sure enough in October Google revealed that a quarter of all new code written was done by AI. Even fields such as accounting are becoming outmoded by AI, and replacing certain aspects of that job and similar skills. The list goes on.

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