Why less than $2500/month is poor and why $10k is easier than you think (even if you're in Pakistan)
You would think that at $2500 life is great. But the reality is, the impact of the war is harsh. Inflation always leaves a scar. The dollar exchanged for 100 PKR back in 2014. Now it's 280 PKR in 2026. And since it's crossed 200, it has shown NO sign of going back down. Oil prices. Electricity prices. Gas prices. Rent prices. All on the rise. Not to mention, worth checking if your country has an 'oil levy'. That's a subsidy on the price of fuel. And if that's true, well even at the sky high prices the government is giving you a discount. And it's the time where having a self sufficient house is more important ever. But before I get into that, I want to tell you roughly how much time you have to sell AI Agents. Spoiler: 2026 to 2029. And as we approach the end of 2029, AI Agents will be a commodity. Price competition. No premium rates. You have roughly 2.5 years. That's less time than a bachelors degree. By that time, white collar jobs will be a handful. Only the 1% with 2-3 assistive employees. Enterprises will shrink to ~20 person companies. The infrastructure to make this a reality is already in momentum. Don't believe me? Well imagine this. From December 2021 to May 2026, we live in a world where AI is with us from breakfast to lunch. When GPT 3.5 came out, you were impressed. And now? You laugh at it. Because GPT 5.5, Opus 4.7, Kimmi 2.6, etc can operate like full time employees. Pull from your google docs, edit your spreadsheets, write pages to Notion, build memories, make API calls, find files on your computer and even sort out your finances. That's less than the time it takes a human to learn to speak basic sentences. 4 years. Talk to someone in their bachelors these days and they have no idea of the unemployment thats about to hit them. It's the amount of change your parents, your siblings, your friends, YOU or I were NEVER designed to handle. You'd think doom scrolling is bad? This is worse. Open Instagram and you will immediately feel that you know nothing. RAG, Skills, MCP, CLI, Claude Code, Agentic Workflows, Agent Swarms, HeyGen, DeepFakes, HiggsField, Google Labs.