Elon Musk is not someone who calls himself cautious in his predictions. Even when many of his projects take longer than he predicted to come true. His vision of the future is peculiar to say the least. And on this occasion he has demonstrated it again with statements that have not taken long to go around the world. According to him, the money will be worthless in a few years.
And why? Because of artificial intelligence, of course. A technology that Grok has embraced from day one. His comments on the subject are not only surprising, but somewhat paradoxical. After all, it is striking that the person who says it is precisely the richest man in the world. Is this an honest opinion or are there interests behind it?
Elon Musk predicts goodbye to money
The case of Elon Musk is not much different from that of other billionaires (technological, to make matters worse). Bill Gates, without going any further, assures that it would be natural for people to work only two or three days a week. Nowbecause when he was the head of Microsoft, his employees always remember that he required full dedication.
In the case of the founder of Tesla, he has been saying for some time that AI will automate everything, and it is not the first time that he thinks that work will disappear. Machines will take care of everything thanks to artificial intelligence, so doing something, he reasons, will be optional. It is a theory that experts know as «radical abundance», and that has been generating debates for some time.
Musk takes it to the extreme, says Fortune: «Money will not be needed because there will be everything that is needed»says the businessman. According to his criteria, technology will be capable of generating unlimited goods and products, since factories will not require human labor. Something that sounds like a utopia when presented the way he does, but that does not seem to fully correspond to reality.
At least, to the current one. He is right about one thing: many companies, starting with giants like Amazon or Microsoft, are carrying out massive layoffs because AI does the work that their employees previously carried out. That’s true. But of the abundance and renunciation of money, at least for now, there is no trace of any kind.
A statement questioned by experts
Beyond Elon Musk continuing to accumulate money, which could seem like a complete contradiction, there is the complication of launching the society that Elon Musk imagines. For experts, something like this would require energy and technical advances that are very far from becoming a reality.
Furthermore, the opinion of the economists who are consulted on the matter is almost always the same: economic systems do not disappear because advanced technology exists; they transform. If Elon Musk conveniently forgets, is naive, or sees something that the rest of us miss, only he knows that.