On Our "Virtual Route 99" (Special Month-End Edition): #RandomThoughts Courtesy Peter Diamandis & Ryan Holliday
Listen now · 7:18 TLDR: The poorest person alive today lives better than the richest king of 500 years ago. Instant communication, food year-round, air conditioning, toilets, AI in your pocket. This newsletter asks: when does the majority of humanity get what today’s millionaires have? The answer is sooner than you think. King Louis XIV of France had 200 servants, ate whatever he wanted, and controlled the most powerful nation on Earth. He died at 76 of gangrene in a palace that smelled of sewage because indoor plumbing didn’t exist. His doctors bled him with leeches. His entertainment was whatever musicians happened to be in Versailles that evening. His knowledge was whatever books his court could acquire, which was maybe a few thousand volumes. Today, a person earning minimum wage in the United States has a smartphone that connects to the entirety of human knowledge. They have access to more music than Louis XIV could have imagined in 100 lifetimes. They have air conditioning. ...
