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Elon Musk on the impact of robots and AI: "Working will be optional"
X ^ | Oct 31 | Elon Musk and Joe Rogan

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

(Excerpt) Read more at x.com ...


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Interesting thesis and confirms what I suspect (Universal basic income) ?

We're headed for a massive change and a potential "reset" that has never happened before.

Or maybe we're all just getting worried about nothing and the timeless principles of capitalism will work it out

Honestly, I dont know how this goes....

1 posted on 10/31/2025 11:40:53 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

There are things men must do to remain men...


2 posted on 10/31/2025 11:44:48 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: RandFan

Kinda sounds a little like H.G. Wells “Things To Come.’’


3 posted on 10/31/2025 11:44:55 PM PDT by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: RandFan

The 42 million on SNAP will just love that.
They don’t really work anyway.


4 posted on 10/31/2025 11:46:32 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: RandFan

Musk is absolutely psychotic and why anybody here takes him seriously at all is a disgrace.


5 posted on 10/31/2025 11:52:26 PM PDT by bakeneko
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To: RandFan

Yup, could see this coming a mile away


6 posted on 10/31/2025 11:58:49 PM PDT by onona
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To: bakeneko

LOL what? He runs some of the biggest companies aroundd but OK...

Your comment is absurd if you dont mind me saying


7 posted on 10/31/2025 11:59:26 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: bakeneko
Except he built the rockets that take US astronauts to the Space station, after America was forced to depend on the Russians for 9 years at very high cost.
Plus created the only successful US big automobile company in over a 100 years.
Plus created the Boring Company.
Plus created Neuralink.
Plus first man in history to be worth $500 Billion?
Apart from all that, what exactly has he ever done?

Say, how many billion dollar companies have you ever created?

8 posted on 11/01/2025 12:00:05 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Skywise
There are things men must do to remain men...

They better

9 posted on 11/01/2025 12:00:30 AM PDT by onona
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I don’t believe the competitive nature of human beings will ever allow a utopian future. Such as Star Trek for example, where people work only to better themselves and the rest of humanity.


10 posted on 11/01/2025 12:04:56 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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In Star Trek money is abolished. I think that is going too far but there’s going to be some big changes and this is unprecedented


11 posted on 11/01/2025 12:06:20 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

news for you Elon. it’s already optional.


12 posted on 11/01/2025 12:08:14 AM PDT by dadfly
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To: onona

Less incentive since modern women aren’t worth it anymore.


13 posted on 11/01/2025 12:12:02 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Not a life I want to live.

Musk may be smart but he must have missed Maslow and I am pretty sure he ain’t got a lick of damn sense.


14 posted on 11/01/2025 12:12:43 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: dadfly

Where?


15 posted on 11/01/2025 12:12:50 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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America.


16 posted on 11/01/2025 12:13:16 AM PDT by dadfly
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To: Skywise

Working, thinking, trying, failing, conquering challenges and coping with defeat are amongst those things that make us men and better men for it.


17 posted on 11/01/2025 12:14:55 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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Working will be optional and so will getting an income.

There will be strings attached to the income. Comply or get fined.


18 posted on 11/01/2025 12:15:24 AM PDT by Jonty30 (I've been diagnosed as being polemic and there is no cure. )
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To: bakeneko

Thank you very much! I think I am the only one who sees that most of the time.


19 posted on 11/01/2025 12:15:59 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: dadfly

Is working optional for you?


20 posted on 11/01/2025 12:16:12 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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