Are the world's most powerful people purposefully trying to induce an economic recession? This week on 51/49, James plays around with ChatGPT to explore the curious reasoning behind why billionaires and the world's most powerful people would voluntarily warn us about an impending recession and tell us to save money, seemingly acting against their own financial interests. Are they doing it out of the goodness of their hearts? Or do they have something to gain? 0:00 Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates Predict Recession 1:41 Airline Deregulation Act 3:44 ChatGPT - 5 Reasons Why Billionaires Would Want a Recession 7:27 The Biggest Difference Between Today's Economy vs. The Financial Crisis 51/49 with James Li - Commentary on business, politics, and the other things (from an independent perspective) Follow James on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesccli/ Subreddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/5149withJamesLi/ ----- Fair Use Notice: This video may contain copyrighted material; the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available for the purposes of criticism, comment, review and news reporting which constitute the fair use of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. Not withstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work for purposes such as criticism, comment, review and news reporting is not an infringement of copyright. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhTLpkfJRVY

This week on 51/49, James goes undercover at Society Las Olas in Ft. Lauderdale in order to dive into Adam Neumann's secretive billion dollar venture, Flow, to answer the question of whether it's really the solution to America's housing crisis, or is the overused rhetoric about "community" and "ownership" just the latest Silicon Valley ruse to repackage the American dream in order to help venture capital make the next trillion dollars, a la a $350 million investment from Marc Andreessen and his venture capital firm, A16z? 0:00 What is Flow, Adam Neumann's $1 Billion Start-up? 2:30 Is Flow a Utopian Community?! Going Undercover... 5:13 The Housing Crisis is "Spiritual" Problem, Says Neumann 9:03 Neumann's Goal to Eliminate the 3rd Place! 51/49 with James Li - Commentary on business, politics, and the other things (from an independent perspective) Follow James on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@5149jamesli Follow James on X (formerly Twitter): https://twitter.com/5149jamesli Subreddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/5149withJamesLi/ ----- Kumasi Groove by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Dopplerette by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Faster Does It by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Infados by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ----- Fair Use Notice: This video may contain copyrighted material; the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available for the purposes of criticism, comment, review and news reporting which constitute the fair use of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. Not withstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work for purposes such as criticism, comment, review and news reporting is not an infringement of copyright. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAyKjZDj45k