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  • How much money do you think you need to retire for good.

  • Everyone has his own number, but we all can agree that a few billion dollars is enough

  • for almost anyone to live the rest of his life as a king.

  • Becoming a billionaire is not a joke.

  • Only 2825 people could become one out of almost 8 billion that inhabit this planet.

  • But I have some good news for you.

  • We are in the middle of the greatest wealth transfer in history.

  • 30 trillion dollars is about to change hands from baby boomers to the next generation.

  • And guess what?

  • You and I and everyone else who is watching this video has an opportunity to get a tiny

  • slice of that 30 trillion dollars.

  • Even 0.1% of that amount equals dozens of billions.

  • Watch carefully, because You are about to learn how to benefit from the greatest wealth

  • transfer in history?

  • But before we get into that, we have to understand how baby boomers became so wealthy in the

  • first place.

  • Back in the 1930s, the United States was just another country.

  • Not even close to the superpower it is now.

  • In fact, it was in such a big financial crises that it was named the great depression.

  • It lasted 10 years and almost destroyed the entire economy.

  • And the only way the United States got out of that crisis is through WW2.

  • World war 2 was, of course, the most horrible thing ever happened in human history, but

  • it also caused the greatest wealth transfer in history.

  • When Europe and the rest of the world were trying to destroy each other (ww2).

  • Supplies were limited, so the allies turned to the united states to fill that gap.

  • Since it wasn't directly involved in the war and had the economic power to do that.

  • US farmers and factories could produce as much wheat and equipment as they could and

  • easily sell them to the allies for the highest possible price since troops at the battlefield

  • were ready to take any measures to win the war.

  • When the war ended in 1945, the entire world was destroyed, but the united states emerged

  • as a superpower since for the last 5 years, it was literally supplying the entire world

  • with everything.

  • In fact, 75 percent of the world's gold reserves ended up in the United States since, in times

  • of war, paper currencies usually hold no value.

  • But that was just the beginning.

  • After the war, the demand for American goods, equipment, and services didn't fall since

  • Europe had to build back its infrastructure and get their economies running again, and

  • in return, US companies made fortunes.

  • That's how baby boomers, the generation of people born after ww2, became the richest

  • generation in history, but they are getting old and dying.

  • And are expected to transfer $30 trillion in wealth to younger generations over the

  • next decade.

  • Of course, most of this wealth is tied up in the hands of the top 1 percent, and it

  • will be passed down to their kids, which is true, but studies show that 2/3 of businesses

  • that are passed to their children fail, and only a small fraction makes to the third generation

  • which means most of that 30 trillion dollars will be passed away to whoever can take it.

  • Take the richest man in American history, John Rockefeller, he had an estimated net

  • worth of 400 billion dollars adjusted to inflation, but the Rockefeller family today has a net

  • worth of around 11 billion dollars.

  • Because With every new technology or change comes a new wave of innovation that transforms

  • a certain industry or the entire world and transfers wealth from one group to another

  • as it was with the internet for example, whoever rode that wave ended up making a fortune.

  • Take YouTube, for example.

  • For decades, cable news was the only choice to watch your favorite show or news.

  • When YouTube emerged, not everyone jumped on board immediately.

  • But this new technology transformed the industry and pushed most cable tv viewers to YouTube.

  • All that money that is supposed to be spent on tv ads is now spent on YouTube ads.

  • Many cable tv channels went bankrupt as a result of that, but on the other side, people

  • made fortunes riding this new wave of innovation like Philip de Franco, Pewdipie, or MKBHD.

  • People even made fortunes by uploading fake pranks, fake pickups, reviewing toys, or even

  • cat videos.

  • Of course, it is still possible to make it on YouTube, but it's not easy as it was back

  • then.

  • In the 1990s, the dot com revolution happened where people made fortunes just by building

  • a website even if that website was totally useless.

  • The point is, wealth changes hands when a new wave of innovation changes a certain industry.

  • So if we want to find out who will get the biggest portion out of that 30 trillion dollars,

  • we have to find out what is the next big wave.

  • There are certainly going to be many, but here are at least 2 of them.

  • Blockchain.

  • Don't worry, I am not trying to sell you anything, and please ignore all the comments under this

  • video that are trying to sell you anything related to crypto's because they are most

  • likely trying to rip you off, so please don't tell me that I didn't warn you.

  • Having said that, we can move on.

  • Blockchain is now where the internet was in 2002 and 2003.

  • It had its astronomical rise back in 2017 and crashed, but we will find out the true

  • benefits of this technology in 10 or 20 years.

  • But theoretically, it does not only has the potential to change the financial industry

  • but pretty much every other industry.

  • Back in the 2000s, most people couldn't have imagined what the internet would be in 20

  • years, and yet here we are, our lives depend on the internet.

  • We can't go into the details of how blockchain works, but it's easy to imagine how the world

  • of business will be running on smart contracts, for example.

  • If you could go back in time to the 2000s.

  • What business would you start?

  • Most certainly an internet company because the last 20 years were the golden era of the

  • internet.

  • And blockchain is about to have its own gold period.

  • I am warning you again, there are too many scammers in this industry as it was with the

  • internet back in the 2000s.

  • Please do your research and understand the risks before you invest in this field, and

  • most importantly, don't believe a single comment in the YouTube section that will tell you

  • that they have made fortunes trading cryptos.

  • Back in the 1870s, when oil was just discovered, it wasn't as valuable as it is today since

  • gasoline cars were not invented yet.

  • But John Rockefeller decided to take advantage of this new wave of change.

  • He started his oil refiner and slowly started buying his competitors.

  • And as the demand for oil grew, especially with the invention of automobiles, his wealth

  • grew accordingly to the point where he became the richest American to ever live.

  • But the world is moving again to a new source of energy not only because the world is running

  • out of oil, but if we do not move to renewable energy, the world is going to face a climate

  • disaster.

  • Scientists have warned that the world is on the way to warm by 3 degrees, which would

  • put many cities underwater.

  • That's why China, for example, already banned gas and diesel in the new car market and has

  • a plan to ban all gas and diesel cars by 2035.

  • Many other countries have already taken similar steps.

  • In the next 10 years, the world will rapidly transition to a new source of energy, and

  • whoever will ride this new wave of change has the opportunity to make a fortune.

  • Of course, Elon Musk is going to be the modern-day Rockefeller.

  • In fact, for the first time in American history, there will be someone who is going to be wealthier

  • than John Rockefeller.

  • Nevertheless, he won't be able to own the entire market, which means others will have

  • a chance to get a slice of that wave as well.

  • 2020 hasn't been an easy year, not only because we went through a global pandemic, but the

  • entire world faced a global recession.

  • And when the economy hits its bottom line, it moves to the expansion period and starts

  • growing again, and it seems like we are in the middle of that transition, which means

  • in the next 3,5 even 10 years, the economy will most likely keep growing.

  • The competition for this enormous transfer of wealth is going to be fierce.

  • Even though this wealth is primarily located in the United States, the entire world will

  • try to get it.

  • Although The internet has turned the planet into a global village, most of the world still

  • don't have access to the internet, but that is about to change when StarLink Will finally

  • be ready.

  • Elon Musk wants to send 42K satellites to space to make high internet connection accessible

  • to every corner of the world.

  • And when that happens, another 4 billion people will have a chance to get a slice of that

  • enormous wealth transfer.

  • I hope you guys have enjoyed this video.

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How much money do you think you need to retire for good.

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