Are You Climbing the Wrong Mountain? Cashless Society & Taylor Swift | Weekly NishIsHere — Issue #71
Will AI Kill Creativity? The Hidden Cost of Cashless Society, How Taylor Swift Really Made Her Billions & Rare Photos from 19th Century Iran Inside
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Let’s dive into today’s issue:
- Are you climbing the wrong mountain?
- Cashless society and the end of your freedom
- Will creativity thrive in the AI era?
- How Taylor Swift became a Billionaire
- Where do the world’s billionaire comes from?
- Leaked photos from 19th century Iran, during the Qajar dynasty
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♣ Thought of the Week
◘ Think about this. Are you climbing the wrong mountain?
♣ Tech
◘ Going cashless seems super easy and convenient, but at what cost? We’re giving up our privacy and control over our own money!
This comment from the video sums up everything:
“Give a man a gun he can rob a bank.
Give a man a bank he can rob the world.”
♣ Creator Economy
◘ There’s a lot of talk going on about creativity and AI. Famous content creator Casey Nesitat did a great experiment showing us that creativity will always win vs AI content.
Watch this video, where he makes a Vlog all scene and shots dictated by AI.
As Project Nightfall commented on this video -
“My theory is that AI is actually going to make us more human and save the Internet in 2 years or so, because the whole thing is gonna implode and people will start wanting more raw, real, human content on the Internet. This vlog was soulless, but the scene with Candice was pure gold :D”
♣ Pop Culture
◘ It’s not necessary to be a fan of Taylor Swift to be impressed by her passion for music. I am not a Swiftie, but I am impressed by how she works on her music passion to become a self-made billionaire.
If you want to know how she does this, go watch this video.
I admire Taylor Swift as a businesswoman and role model for young women. She demonstrates that it’s possible to pursue your dreams and achieve financial independence. loved her lyric, “Back then, I swore I was going to marry him someday, but I realized some bigger dreams of mine.” It’s so true.
♣ Business
◘ I found this cool infographic, which shows Mapped: The World’s Billionaire Population, by Country.
“The world’s billionaires — only 3,311 individuals — represent almost $11.8 trillion in wealth. The global billionaire population continued to grow in 2021, increasing by 3%. Over the same period, billionaire wealth also increased by 18%.
This map uses data from the Wealth-X Billionaire Census to visualize where the world’s billionaires live and breaks down their collective wealth.”
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♣ Photo of the Week
◘ An anonymous hacker has leaked thousands of photos showing what Iran was like under the Qajar dynasty in the 19th century.
Iranians and global citizens can now get a glimpse of 19th-century Persia, thanks to a Google Drive folder containing valuable archival photos uploaded online.
A historian told RFE/RL that Iranian authorities make it difficult for the general public to access these photos. “It’s as if they were trying to keep them as far from the public eye as possible,” Hamidreza Hossein told the American radio station.
♣ Quote of the Week
◘ Be a bigger human. This way.
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Nishat Shahriyar, @CuriousNish
Hey! I am Nishat Shahriyar. You can call Me “NISH”
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