Posted on 10/31/2025 11:40:53 PM PDT by RandFan
@MJTruthUltra
Crazy times…
Elon Musk says eventually “Working will be Optional”, and everyone will be given a Universal High-Income
- Jobs, where there is no physical work involved, will be eliminated first.
- working will be optional because of robots and AI
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yes.
And it will be enforced by a digital ID and your cell phone
Its not for most people on this planet.
shrugs. well sir, i’d question that statement, but, especially in America and Western Europe. if you define work as earning an honest living, by providing a valuable service for renumeration, i’d say that there’s a whole class of people in this country who’ve never done an honest day of ‘work’ in their lives.
Idol people do not become philosophers, they become welfare queens and and antifa.
I agree. It's bonkers. What he's talking about is utopia, which doesn't exist and never has. It would mean the destruction of our way of life as we know it, where human kind won't be worth anything, and won't be needed anymore. We already have welfare where people get paid for doing nothing. It would be just another form of welfare. And who makes the decision who gets paid for doing nothing, and how much they'd be paid? What happens if it's decided that you aren't worth that universal income anymore? Euthanasia...a needle stick, and a quick trip to the waste factory so your body can be processed into fertilizer to keep those robots supplied for the vegetables they're planting to feed the masses.
Some would say you're a psychotic Rand Paul fan.
Have it on good authority that one ought to work six days each week and rest on the seventh.
If no one has to work - the 42 million who don’t work now will say it’s racist
This would give America a chance to perfect its Vodka industry.
Bfl
Idle maybe?
He thinks this way about humans because he thinks his Optimus robot will replace us.
The positive here is that it raises the question, "Is there a God or not. And, if there is, what does He want for humanity?"
I believe there is a God who created humanity for a purpose and that purpose will continue to play out despite what Musk thinks.
If there is no God, Musk is right. Humanity, for the most part, is done. Their chapter is over.
I think you mean “idle.”
Yes! That’s what I mint. Thanks!
IF, as the prophets of an AI “god” are correct and, robots do OUR bidding, this might happen.
BUT, if the same “prophets” are correct, AI will eventually figure out it doesn’t NEED humans and will see us as vermin to be exterminated so the money (or “crypto” valuation on the world market) can be used to make MORE robots, increase the quantum computing networks for more and better AI hubs, develop space travel or time travel to get off the planet and away from the parasites or just eradicate us all outright.
A recently popular book “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All” by Eliezer Yudkowsky (et al.) has a very self-explanatory title.
There ain’t gonna be any AI-based “Universal Basic Income”, Elon.
Wake the f**k up!
I think that Elon is right about AI scaling and advances reaching a point in five years where you don’t have a computer or phone running applications, AI based applications running on a server will create spreadsheets, run complex programs and pull required data on the fly. Coupled with advances in robotics, this can lead to a major impact on the world of work and what skills are useful. I think like other technology revolutions, there will be a dramatic change, but as before in skill sets and required intelligence to be productive and to integrate with the new society. The idea that no one will work again is faulty thinking; AI is not free, the energy demands are enormous as are the applications of AI to furthering human growth.
Sleep Bombs. Sleep Bombs for everyone.
It already is. American cities are full of shiftless "homeless" people who opt not to work, live on the sidewalks, defecate on the sidewalks, stay zoned out on addictive drugs, and panhandle.
So AI will become like Skynet in the Terminator movies, and we’ll be hunted?
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