There’s Deepfakes.. And then There’s This

“I am not Morgan Freeman,” says Morgan Freeman. [Altucher Confidential] December 21, 2022 [WEBSITE]( | [UNSUBSCRIBE]( “I am not Morgan Freeman,” says Morgan Freeman. [Hero_Image] There’s Deepfakes.. And then There’s This By Chris Campbell Are you prepared for heating bills to run $1,000 or more every month? [Click here for more...]( Joe Biden has already set in motion a devastating series of events thanks to his party’s radical “Green New Scam” policies… This is already happening in the Northeast, with Bloomberg reporting. Former advisor to the CIA and Pentagon, Jim Rickards claims in order to dodge this winter nightmare you MUST “opt-out” before December 21st… Your bank account will thank you. [Click here now to watch my urgent warning before it's too late.]( [Chris Campbell] CHRIS CAMPBELL “I am not Morgan Freeman,” says Morgan Freeman. But wait. Though it looks and sounds just like him… [This is not Morgan Freeman.]( [click here for more...]( Welcome to Uncanny Valley Deepfakes are getting harder to detect. In the past, the tech has been used to generate celebrity porn videos, produce fake news stories, and commit financial fraud. The “I am not Morgan Freeman” video is just the latest terrifying example. But while everyone’s worried about AI deepfakes… A different type of deepfake has been ruling the US economy… Fake employees. They apply. They ace the interview. They get hired. They do nothing. They get fired. Then, they sue the company for discrimination. But… thing is… they’re not real! “People have become so good at this elaborate trick,” says colleague Jeffrey Tucker, “that employers have started to have to be more careful about the hiring process, which means that they have to have employees to manage the hiring of new employees, some of whom might be fake as well!” Jeffrey explains below… and reveals why it’s a disaster in the making. Read on. Urgent Notice From Paradigm CIO Zach Scheidt! [Click here for more...]( Hi, Zach Scheidt here… I’m the Chief Income Officer at Paradigm Press. With inflation raging (and showing no signs of coming to an end any time soon), almost everyone in America is feeling the pain in a big way. Which is why, several months ago, I set out on a big mission… my goal was to create a [complete, step-by-step plan to surviving and beating inflation…]( one that anyone could take advantage of. Today, after hundreds of hours of research, I’m revealing all of my findings. [Simply click here now to see how to survive America’s deadly inflation crisis.]( The Rise of Fake Employees JEFFREY TUCKER Labor markets have never been in more of an upheaval during our lifetimes. Not even the regular data makes sense anymore. The Biden administration touts the low unemployment rate but what can it even mean when the ratio of workers to population has fallen off a cliff? There are now fewer people working than ever. Or consider job creation. What does it mean when they consist mostly of full-timers getting second jobs to supplement declining real income? The small number of people who are still willing to work are having to work ever harder to sustain the illusion that things are as they were three years ago. Crazy Indeed The job marketplace called Indeed.com came to prominence as a form of emancipation for employers and employees. It was seen as a great tribute to the Internet, connecting people and interests as never before. Even the Federal Reserve bought in and used job listings there as part of official data to indicate market health. Since the lockdowns, something has gone very wrong. Remote work became common of course. More than that, getting income from the government became the norm. Indeed.com became a tool for people to extend unemployment benefits forever. So long as they can tell the bureaucracies that they are in the market, the money keeps flowing. Millions have figured out how to game the system. I can’t say that I understand it but if this is your racket, you certainly do. You get notifications from Indeed.com about new jobs and submit your resumes to dozens of companies instantly. Then you ignore the results. The money keeps flowing. Employers who use the system discovered the problem over the last year. They would post a new job and get thousands of applications in. Sounds like good news until they discover that not one of the applicants really wants a job. Much of the system became like everything else these days: a big fake. The platform is not entirely useless but you have to know how to use it in order to avoid the scams, which now constitute probably 50% or more of the activity. This has forced employers back into an old habit of only hiring by word of mouth. Fake Employees The strangest scam to appear in recent months is what is known as fake employees. A person gets an Employment Identification Number online, which is easily available. Get a fake resume and a fake picture. Then in the Zoom interview, you can easily use a fake face. Everything on the other end seems fine, and then the person is hired. The money starts flowing but other people at the firm notice that the person doesn’t actually do anything. People complain. As time passes, eventually the person is fired. Then the fake employee files a lawsuit for employment discrimination. This tangles the firm up in legal issues that can take years to resolve. People have become so good at this elaborate trick that employers have started to have to be more careful about the hiring process, which means that they have to have employees to manage the hiring of new employees, some of whom might be fake as well! The Labor Tragedy In the 19th century and before, there never was a problem called unemployment. If you think about it, the whole thing is ridiculous. There is an unlimited amount of work to do in this world, now and forever. It should never be the case that people can’t find useful employment. The first time when we really faced this as a problem was during the early years of the Great Depression when people were let go from their jobs and could not find new ones at the prevailing wages, which were themselves crashing. Economists concluded that the reason for the economic depression was a lack of work. It was a dumb conclusion because it was not true. The real problem was the inflation of wages and their subsequent deflation. The law would not allow wages to fall. If we had a free market, none of this would have been an issue. Today, labor market struggles are different. Kids aren’t allowed to work on the grounds that they are all supposed to be in school in the interest of having an educated workforce. That didn’t work out too well, obviously. And then we had the invention of “retirement” in which private corporations and governments were supposed to support people to the grave. That worked fine until lifespans expanded from 60 to 75 and now the systems are going bankrupt. With the pandemic lockdowns, we invented a French-style system in which masses of people choose sloth over productivity and get paid by government for doing nothing. That is increasing our plight. Tragically so because not working is also associated with depression, ill health, and early death. Then you have another problem that is hard to quantify: millions of people have given up on ambition entirely. This is an enormous cultural problem that no amount of economic restructuring can fix in one generation. The Wall Street Journal assures us that everyone in high-end jobs facing job insecurity can easily snag another job. Yes. But at the same wages and with the same benefits? No way. This is where we are today in labor markets: vast numbers of people are going to be forced to give up their luxury lifestyles for actual work. Many prefer to live off the taxpayer. Never Take a Risk When totalitarianism came to the U.S. during the pandemic, most Americans had nothing to say. They were too comfortable and too scared to fight for their basic liberties. Why is that? My own theory is that it has to do with the automatization of payments. The luxuries we enjoy come to us automatically, out of one account and into another and then dispersed into many others. If anything should go wrong in this flow of funds, everything falls apart. For this reason, people are not willing to rock the boat. We are a nation of dependents, far from the rugged individualists who built this country. This is why the lockdowns came and went with nary a protest on the part of the home of the brave. It’s utterly astonishing what people will put up with just to keep the funds flowing. Whether their lives mean anything at all is a completely different question. The next few years are going to be deeply traumatic for many millions of well-paid members of the Haute bourgeoisie. Their jobs are coming under pressure and they will be forced to ask themselves whether to retool and downgrade or become wards of the state. Sadly, most people are going to choose the latter. Of course, there is another option. You can create an account on Indeed and masquerade as someone you are not. Get hired. If you get fired, you can sue. The Federal Reserve will count you as a gainfully employed American and no one gets hurt. Meanwhile, Biden has announced loan forgiveness for students with less than $10,000 in debt. That’s a signal to anyone with $100,000 in debt to wait it out. You can see what’s happening here: the American taxpayer is going to be on the hook for decades of funding of fake degrees for people to work in fake jobs to contribute to fake data that shore up the illusion of prosperity, all of which we know is fake. No wonder so many of the smart young professionals I know are moving to Mexico! Regards, Jeffrey Tucker For Altucher Confidential Crypto millionaire James Altucher just revealed the cryptocurrency he’s piling into now… and it’s NOT Bitcoin… [Click here for more...]( He reveals exactly what it is [on this page]( predicts 8,788% returns. However, events are happening RIGHT NOW in the cryptocurrency space that could swallow up this opportunity forever. If you missed the first crypto boom… do NOT miss this one. This could be your last chance for easy profits. 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