Elon Musk says that in 10 to 20 years, work will be optional and money will be irrelevant thanks to AI and robotics

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

In the future, Elon Musk sees humans as metaphorical vegetable farmers.

The Tesla CEO said at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday that in the next 10 to 20 years, work will be optional, likening the decision to have a job to the more laborious upkeep of a vegetable garden.

“My prediction is that work will be optional. It’ll be like playing sports or a video game or something like that,” Musk said. “If you want to work, [it’s] the same way you can go to the store and just buy some vegetables, or you can grow vegetables in your backyard. It’s much harder to grow vegetables in your backyard, and some people still do it because they like growing vegetables.”

The future of optional work will be the result of millions of robots in the workforce able to usher in a wave of enhanced productivity, according to Musk. The tech mogul, worth about $470 billion, has made the recent push to expand Tesla beyond just electric vehicles, working on consolidating his sprawling business interests into his broader vision of an AI-fueled, robotic-powered future. That includes his goal of having 80% of Tesla’s value come from his Optimus robots, despite continuous production delays for the humanoid bots.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-says-10-20-183701720.html

There'll still be work. Greedy fucks like Musk won't share the wealth.

[FalloutShelter]

1. So... billions of humans

With nothing but time on their hands.
What could go wrong?

[rampartd]

6. you may not have noticed, they do not need billions of humans anymore

some of us will remain on reservations, i suppose.

[FalloutShelter]

7. True that.

Super bug? Thin the herd?

[misanthrope]

11. I have seen learned postulation that AI

could fashion a superbug with ease.

[travelingthrulife]

61. They are using a multi-pronged approach. Vought, our Pres, says we need to get the population down to

100 million, all white, all his brand of christian, you know the hate-filled type.

My MAGA brothers tell me the concentration camps are also for religious indoctrination to their hate religion. You don't accept their version, off to the camps.

[ret5hd]

10. Zoos...the correct spelling is "zoos".

[Irish_Dem]

55. Billions of humans with no job, no money, no food on the table.

This is why the rich have to start killing off the population.

[Jacson6]

73. I think the plan is to starve to death 90% of the world population within one month.

After they have created their robots.

[Iris]

2. This makes no sense at all to me.

[TheBlackAdder]

43. Yeah, me too! Elon, put your money where your mouth is. Give me a billion of your irrelevancy!

[Botany]

3. Hopefully in 10 to 20 years one of his rockets with him on it has a catastrophic failure.

Trump is just his tool to bring on Musk’s “brave new world.”

[misanthrope]

12. 10-20 days is better

Fingers crossed.

[Silent Type]

4. Except somebody has to buy his cars, subscribe to satellite, etc. I think they'll find a way

to care for people who decide not to work and live off staples, in small homes, etc. Maybe government will hand out script.

Those that want more will opt to work. They’ll be plenty of jobs left for those that want them, notwithstanding the doomsayers who have been around since my earliest memories in 1950s.

Not saying it will be pleasant.

[Metaphorical]

40. scrip, not script

Scrip is money issued by corporations in lieu of government back bonds. Scrip tends to go in and out of fashion as companies wax and wane, especially as scrip usually only tends to be accepted by the company in question. As far as I'm concerned, most e-currency is technically speaking scrip, and most is not worth the electrons their printed on, though the TechBros would have you believe otherwise.

[Silent Type]

42. Glad you got my point.

[travelingthrulife]

62. Since when are Republicans going to issue script to not work?

This is just more tech nonsense. Of course money is irrelevant when you have all of it, Elon.

[Silent Type]

64. Gotta have someone buy cars, subscribe to social media, eat pork-n-beans, etc. Otherwise, their businesses fail

and their wealth all but evaporates.

[Norrrm]

5. Work optional?

[GoCubsGo]

8. Elon needs to lay off the drugs. nt

[Buns_of_Fire]

23. In 10-20 years MuskX's robots will take the drugs for him.

Leaving ElonX with nothing to do but spread his "superior" genes all day long. Not much different than it is for him now, actually.

[Irish_Dem]

57. Musk is admitting he doesn't have to work any more. His minions do it for him.

And he has enough money to never worry again about anything.

[Jacson6]

9. Conspiracy theory: Rise of the terminators. n/t

[struggle4progress]

13. We'll all have time to wave chainsaws at each other, and destroy institutions

that took generations to build, and honor dictators who murder journalists, and demand trillion dollar payoffs, and babble nonsense about colonizing outer space!

[usonian]

14. If we all took the drugs he's taking, sure

Forget work and money.

[edhopper]

15. Sure Elon

How are you coming along with that self driving car you promised 10 years ago?

[Polybius]

19. Well, progress has been fantastic over the last 10 years

I couldn't have imagined Full Self Driving version 14 in 2015.

[edhopper]

33. He promised it would be done

By 2020.
He is full of shit about everything.

[Polybius]

51. True

He's a little over-optimistic at times.

[edhopper]

66. Yeah, a little

like Trump is a little bit of a rapist at times.

[Polybius]

16. Dammit, I was born too soon!

I never wanted to work, I just do it because I need money.

[Initech]

17. And how will we be able to afford housing and food, exactly?

Fuck Elon.

[Justice matters.]

47. He wants everyone not white dead.

And everyone not rich dead, no mater if they're white.

He wants his robots and AI to work 24/7, 365 days a year, to serve him and the 1% everything.

The 1% white.

[AntiFascist]

18. The top 1% will likely try to use AI for their own "irrelevant" purposes of effortless survival...

many of the rest of us will be working for the long-term survival of humanity.

[llmart]

20. So if money will be irrelevant then...

why doesn't he start getting rid of some of his right now. I'd like to be first in line.

I think my prediction is better. In 10 years Eloon will be irrelevant.

[valleyrogue]

21. He needs to lay off the g.d. drugs and scifi novels.

I have heard this futuristic shit for decades, and what "progress" there has been has been limited.

AI is a load of shit.

[jmowreader]

22. I'm going to take a wild stab here...

All the people who are displaced by Musk Tech will eat nutritionally complete wafers that come in red, yellow and green, get their water from a central spigot that's only turned on once a week, and live 20-to-a-room without possessions.

[Metaphorical]

41. Wafers Sold by the Musk Soylent Corporation

* sigh *

[RazorbackExpat]

24. So money will be irrelevant?

Is that why he's grabbing as much of it as he can?

[EdmondDantes_]

26. His actions don't support his words

Much easier to lie by talking.

[Deuxcents]

35. Razorback..that was my first thought reading this..

[Justice matters.]

48. Says the psychotic clown waving a giant chainsaw on a stage

and making Heil Hitler salutes twice for all the horrified world to see.

Let's hope in ten years, he will be serving time for stealing private data without any consent.

[Blues Heron]

25. Musk is on powerful drugs, obviously

[John Coktosten]

27. FEM

Fuck Elon Musk

[Intractable]

28. My guess is he wants to plug us all in to use us as batteries for his AIs.

This man is not going to make life better for the proletariat.

[SSJVegeta]

29. Hes just talking about himself.

[CanonRay]

30. If money will be irrelevant

why did he just ask for a trillion from Tesla.

[Scrivener7]

31. He also said he'd cut two trillion from the federal budget. So there's that.

[DBoon]

32. There will be jobs...

They just won't involve making things.

They won't involve providing services to ordinary people.

The jobs will involve providing menial, degrading services to the .1%.

Because the .1 % will always want to degrade and humiliate their lessers

Wiping the Ass of the English King — The Highly Coveted Job Among the Young Noblemen https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/groom-of-the-stool-bb96e0dfacba

[Crunchy Frog]

34. What he leaves unspoken is that people will be optional and irrelevant.

In Elon's nightmare utopia.

[dgauss]

36. In 10 to 20 years, most people will realize

that Musk is a delusional lunatic.

[TheFarseer]

37. Except they have no intention of

sharing anything with anyone. He means work will be optional for fellow billionaires as if it isn’t already. The rest of us can die or scrounge some sort of living in cardboard shack villages outside their gated community. Makes no difference to them. I’m not sure we will even have the option of a 2nd French Revolution. Think of all the assault robots we’d have to get past. The only part I can’t figure out is how they make money once they have all the money and the people that used to buy their stuff literally have no money.

[Marie Marie]

38. I thought that he would have us all on Mars by then.

[Jack Valentino]

39. so I hope that Elon Musk will be 'optional' even sooner than that!

[AZJonnie]

44. "Oh, hey, everybody! If you just invest in my new wiz bang inventions, soon nobody will ever have to work

a day in their lives if they don't want to!"

Signed,
Every Egomaniacal Industrialist in the Past Two Centuries

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

45. Assholes like him have been predicting this bullshit at least since the 1950s.

Anyone here old enough to remember the 1950s ought to remember the terrified predictions that robots would take over all work. Which certainly would not have been possible back then, and still isn't possible.

And of course this nonsense is the final reason I stopped getting an occasional McDonald's, because it was taking 20 minutes to get a fish sandwich and fries. Plus, the last time I did, about a year ago, it was truly awful.

[BootinUp]

46. It's just a coincidence that these fantastical

stories make people want to invest in his companies.

[flvegan]

49. Why does anyone listen to this drug addled shitposting liar?

Where's that roadster...and the robotaxis...and the full self driving? Promises made, promises forgotten.

Fuck that nazi, Elon. And fuck Tesla. Shit company, shit cars, shit leadership.

[genxlib]

50. Reading between the lines

He is just trying to get past the fatal flaw of Atlas Shrugged.

That is the the delusional concept that the 1% can just create their own utopian society without the people who actually get shit done. That vision always falls apart with the simple question of “Who is going to cook your food and clean your house”

Robots!

[Walleye]

52. Yes, and all races and religions will live in harmony, and the world will be preserved by environmentalists

[bucolic_frolic]

53. There's not enough money or electricity to build out AI

Most of them will be bankrupt or consolidated.

[Irish_Dem]

54. This is why they are killing us off. They don't need a workforce any longer.

They don't need us to make them rich.

They sure as hell are not going to share their wealth so people can eat and have a roof over their head.

Culling the herd is their goal now.

[Irish_Dem]

56. Musk is so rich that money has become irrelevant to him.

He has everything he needs and wants.
He can buy anything in the world.

He has no understanding of what it means to go hungry or be homeless.

[Ferrets are Cool]

58. And quiet piggys will fly.

[marble falls]

59. He really needs to get off the drugs.

[travelingthrulife]

60. So these robots will also buy your products, Elon, you moronic manbaby?

[OldBaldy1701E]

63. If money becomes irrelevant, so will you, Eloon!

Do you really think anyone would be around you at all if not for your wealth?

Delusional to the last, I see.

[Johnny2X2X]

65. LOL, the rich will never let the masses benefit from automation, period

You think Musk and his billionaire bros are going to let regular people get anything out of their adventures?

They'd sooner just let 80% of society die off before doing anything that provides for the basic needs of people. That's actually probably their plan. USA has 75M people instead of 350M.

[Ping Tung]

67. Yep.

[usedtobedemgurl]

68. Says the guy

Who demanded an explanation of what work government employees did, to justify keeping their jobs! Also, from the guy who has close ties to a party of people who think if you are not working, you are greedy and lazy and do not deserve food or healthcare. (And they do not want it for workers, either. Yes, in a decade or so, they will be happy giving us what we NEED, and we can just stay home? Bullshit!

[gulliver]

69. We, as Democrats and humans, need to ensure the "AI Dividend"

I think we Democrats need to get a vision for AI, pronto. Musk's vision is excellent. We need to start using law to create a glide path toward it so that all people get their share of the "AI Dividend." For example, as AI improves productivity, we should make sure that improvement produces some mix of new jobs and "dividend payments." I, for one, picture a dividend auto-deposit or check, like during COVID.

I have little concern that we humans will find something to do. We already have people who don't work: the rich, retirees, and managers. They find things to do.

(Just a burn, managers...I love me some managers.)

[Happy Hoosier]

71. Then why does he need a $1T pay package? NT

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

72. The biggest grifter in history.

[Blue Full Moon]

74. Maybe he got enlightened

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