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Peak Prosperity

A Vital Conversation: Bridging the Generational Divide With Hakeem Anwar

Peak Prosperity

Chris Martenson

Investing, Business, Government

4.7591 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Chris and Hakeem examine generational economic burdens, entrepreneurship risks, AI’s workforce impact, community resilience, real skills like permaculture, and cross-generational empathy for future uncertainties.

Click Here for Hakeem's Company, AbovePhone

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following is the audio version of a video released at peak prosperity.com.

0:04.8

Visit peakprosperity.com to watch the video and to find other insightful content,

0:09.6

such as articles, discussion forums, and exclusive subscriber-only content.

0:16.0

We need to figure something out really soon for our education development for our young people,

0:21.6

because they're not going to get it through the schools.

0:23.6

They're not going to get it to the workforce.

0:25.6

Frankly, a lot of the jobs are bullshit, and now AI is making it very realistic that they are bullshit.

0:31.6

Even the doctors and lawyers are scared.

0:43.4

We are talking with Hakeem Anwar.

0:48.5

He is the founder of something called Above Phone, and we have a pretty deep relationship around that side of things.

0:50.1

But, Hakeem, I want to talk to you about what it's like to be your age and uh because listen

0:56.3

here's my position i think that my generation which would be x boomers somewhere in that

1:01.4

zone either way that we're leaving behind an arguably worse world for your generation and and nobody's

1:08.4

really talking about it except i see i know what's going to happen

1:12.6

i got to have so many angry boomers there's so many people just mad at me for saying this kind of

1:16.8

stuff like i wasn't responsible i worked hard but the truth is that every generation makes

1:22.7

decisions and what we've done is we've now architected a systemic rigging of the situation where whether we're looking at health insurance costs or auto insurance or new car prices or rent costs or food, it doesn't matter what.

1:36.5

Rather than paying our bills legitimately along the way by not funding foolish wars and or taxing ourselves if we wanted to do that, we put everything

1:46.0

on the future credit card, meaning we just printed money.

1:48.3

And here we are.

1:49.3

Everything is ridiculously expensive.

1:50.8

And so we see the average age of a first time home buyer is now 40 years.

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