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Elon Musk says that in 10 to 20 years, work will be optional and money will be irrelevant thanks to AI and robotics
Fortune ^ | November 20, 2025 | Sasha Rogelberg

Posted on 11/20/2025 4:29:22 PM PST by Mr. Mojo

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To: philman_36
It beats dancing robots which is the best examples I've seen to date, ...

We need robot maids here to change bed sheets. Lots of reports of maids in hotels not changing bed sheets between visitor sign-ins. Reporters would spray a message on sheets that only shows under UV light; a different reporter would check in and light up the message after maids said they changed the linen. Liars all. Robots will get the job done without cheating. As for dancing robots, Japan has the most human female robots (some will do more than just dance).

41 posted on 11/20/2025 5:21:01 PM PST by roadcat ( )
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To: Mr. Mojo

that seems like a boring, sterile world where 95% of people are allowed just enough to survive. Maybe not even that much.


42 posted on 11/20/2025 5:21:32 PM PST by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, black Trump supporter, executed in the street in broad daylight 2020.a)
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To: Lazamataz

Somehow, I knew would say that!

Good to see ya.


43 posted on 11/20/2025 5:22:36 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar

Good to see you too for the 10 or 20 years we have left.


44 posted on 11/20/2025 5:25:42 PM PST by Lazamataz (I figure if Charlie Kirk can die for free speech, I can be mildly inconvenienced.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Lol.

Show me a week of real video that isn’t a movie production, but is actual production & maintenance with robots or AI.

You’ll find robots on the production side producing in the manufacturing sector, but they aren’t even close to replacing human capital & labor in just about everything else.

If they were, you would already see them everywhere in person, not just some artificial hype on YouTube.


45 posted on 11/20/2025 5:29:47 PM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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To: Lazamataz

:o)


46 posted on 11/20/2025 5:30:03 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: roadcat
...Japan has the most human female robots (some will do more than just dance).

When they can clean themselves, for obvious reasons, there might be a market.
Good luck trying to sell one to 'bareback' guys without that feature.

47 posted on 11/20/2025 5:31:16 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Mr. Mojo

What he’s saying is there won’t be any humans left by then.


48 posted on 11/20/2025 5:37:45 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: katana

I wonder what the Thermians thought of Monty Python’s Flying Circus.


49 posted on 11/20/2025 5:40:22 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: Mr. Mojo

“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.”

As Colonel Potter used to say; horsehockey


50 posted on 11/20/2025 5:41:10 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (“I don't really care, Margaret.””)
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To: Mr. Mojo

I’m planting more money trees.


51 posted on 11/20/2025 5:44:14 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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To: Mr. Mojo

If money is irrelevant, how do we determine who gets to live at the beach and who has to live in the dessert?


52 posted on 11/20/2025 5:46:51 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: Mr. Mojo

If the world is still around in 20 years, Musk is right that it will be completely different. I don’t believe it’ll be the way he foresees, but it will be very different.


53 posted on 11/20/2025 5:48:29 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: crusty old prospector
Sounds loverly.

Sounds like total bull shit to me. I like Musk, but this is over the top. He’s been smoking too much weed.

54 posted on 11/20/2025 5:59:17 PM PST by Ditto
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To: Mr. Mojo

And what is the ultimate benefit?


55 posted on 11/20/2025 6:00:24 PM PST by Ronald77 ( )
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To: Prince of Space

That’s what I was thinking. No jobs. No money. Robots doing everything?
No need for people either then.
Perhaps at that point, God will make a huge change.


56 posted on 11/20/2025 6:13:16 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: Mr. Mojo
at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum

So this was just marketing for private equity investment.

Basically a giant commercial. Nothing to do with reality.

57 posted on 11/20/2025 6:19:59 PM PST by fruser1
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To: All

I want my flying car and Jurassic pet velociraptor.


58 posted on 11/20/2025 6:36:28 PM PST by BipolarBob (These violent delights have violent ends.)
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To: katana

The only paying job in Star Trek was holodeck cleaner.


59 posted on 11/20/2025 7:08:08 PM PST by KarlInOhio (I pray that the sleeping giant has finally awakened and been filled with a terrible resolve.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Imagine that. Nothing to kill or die for

where have i heard that before? Who knew all you need is Robutts.


60 posted on 11/20/2025 7:20:16 PM PST by Gasshog (the amazing disappearing tag)
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