Indulge me for the coming delusion, but if we ignore who this is, forget all the reasons we know that we can’t trust him, and allow ourselves just a few moments to hope that we could live in such a world.
A world where manual labor is no longer needed, where people can just exist as large mammals are meant to exist. Robots will handle it all and we can just do as we please… and the robots are going to be plentiful because once enough of the process of making a robot becomes automated, the cost of it will go to zero. But to get there it is going to require a ton of money… these robots are going to be way too expensive for people to actually buy them, so investors and governments will help out. The investors will eventually lose everything, but that will put us on the way to having everything we need to be created through completely automated systems.
Of course, there will still be jobs for those who really want them - or more likely, who want them and are good at them - or even more likely, who knows the right people… but if we can get our basic needs taken care of it night not fully end poverty but it would be a step in the right direction.
But, alas… It’s Musk saying it so it’s only to further enrich himself and won’t actually happen.
Someone didn’t learn lessons from Wall-E. Who am I kidding, his ego is too inflated to learn.
In fact, if we imagine realistically the world that such people talk about, we are faced with a blade runner + rapid depletion of resources = slow degradation of man and a return to the Middle Ages, only with a terrible climate and a planet unsuitable for human life.
I’m not sure if this kind of thing is just about enriching himself. Of course that’s a big part of it. But he also wants to be a great man of history. He wants to be the person who saves the world. He wants to be forever remembered as the greatest hero who ever lived.
He won’t, of course. Because he’s a clueless idiot. A clueless idiot who managed to fuck up his own PR so hard that he’s burnt away the reputation as a genius that he used to have.
But he really does want to be adored.
Now you put a stupid idea in front of me of Musk doing shit for the common folk just because no one in the higher class wants to have to deal with him, just to stroke his ego and make it to history books.
Ultimate pettiness that would benefit the whole world.
Worst part is, some naive part of me believes this idiot is capable of that. xD
In late October 2021, Elon Musk was challenged to end world hunger by David Beasley, the director of the UN’s World Food Programme. Beasley claimed that a small portion of Musk’s wealth could solve world hunger, and Musk responded on Twitter that he would sell Tesla stock to do so, provided the UN could provide a detailed, transparent accounting of how the $6 billion would be spent. The WFP then released a plan, but Musk did not donate the money.
Elon must have gotten some ketamine cut with Ajax cleaner to have this dilution.
Sure sure, there’s already an animated show on Fox (regular network, not news) called Universal Basic Guys making fun of the idea when it’s not even being seriously considered yet. Here’s maybe a news flash for some rich folks: MOST people don’t mind working as long as they are PROPERLY COMPENSATED.
He also said in his shareholder speech that Optimus would replace the penal system by following offenders around to prevent them committing crimes. He’s a fucking moron who’s been about to get away with making up complete bullshit to pump Tesla’s stock price for years and for some reason people STILL treat him with credulity.
This is going to make a world similar to the Time Machine. A massive group will happily outsource their need to think for the pleasure of leisure.
The Elon-oi.
I’d be OK if my descendents got to eat them.
I’m gonna call major bullshit. He’s just riding the high of that insane paycheck (among other things, allegedly).
Nobody having to work and everyone living in a communist utopia? I know a few books that start that way, and those societies are not all roses and sunshine.
I would have personally approved of a trillion dollar project to make sure this plan DOES NOT happen.
But he’s going to steal all the money anyway, and use it to escape to Mars, only to die on the launch pad when the rocket predictably explodes…
They aren’t going to provide for people’s basic needs after the robots take their jobs. They’re going to keep the excess productivity for themselves. Just as they’ve always done. The only way that changes is by force, and by the time people get desperate enough for that they’ll have an army of robots at their disposal. We need to tackle that capitalist problem before we get to the point automation taking all the jobs.
Elon’s bullshit isn’t going to be that point though.
There’s only one Optimus I would trust like that, and it’s not the Amazon one.
After watching a deep dive into the Micheal Bay movies I’m not certain I would even trust Best First.
Can someone ask him to clarify what he mean by “eliminate poverty”?
Because there are a couple of way to do that which I’m not too found to.
In a sense, this is what will happen when people are simply disposed of because they are useless.
Kill all poors obviously
AI executioners.
Ask one of his shitty robots! Failing that: “Hey Grok, how would you eliminate poverty?”
Grok: I would get rid of unnecessary parasites( poor and unnecessary people )
He could give all of the poor people some of his tesla shares.
If he had done this, he wouldn’t be so cool.
Everyone single one of his companies is propped up on bullshit and government contracts. Tesla stock is a meme stock. The board and major shareholders will buy up all his bullshit and broken promises just to keep the stock price up. They cannot afford to have Tesla stock go down. Only up.
Yes Elon will never face poverty but he will cut all benefits programs from those in need. He will cut all taxes he will pay and he will watch you die. That is the reality of these MAGAts.
He will also smile.
