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Posted on 11/20/2025 4:29:22 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
The Tesla CEO said at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday 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.
“My prediction is that work will be optional. It’ll be like playing sports or a video game or something like that,” Musk said. “If you want to work, [it’s] the same way you can go to the store and just buy some vegetables, or you can grow vegetables in your backyard. It’s much harder to grow vegetables in your backyard, and some people still do it because they like growing vegetables.”
The future of optional work will be the result of millions of robots in the workforce able to usher in a wave of enhanced productivity, according to Musk. The tech mogul, worth about $470 billion, has made the recent push to expand Tesla beyond just electric vehicles, working on consolidating his sprawling business interests into his broader vision of an AI-fueled, robotic-powered future. That includes his goal of having 80% of Tesla’s value come from his Optimus robots, despite continuous production delays for the humanoid bots.
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Work is already optional for the 43%.
https://m.imdb.com/name/nm1065454/mediaviewer/rm3737980416/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Battle Star Galactica -(2004-2009)
A very prescient and well made series.
What? No mention human basic instinct for sex? Is that optional with AI etc as well?
Retirees everywhere go, meh.
Idle hands…
What he’s saying is there won’t be any humans left by then.
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Thanks for clarifying it.
I thought he was saying “work will be optional and money will be irrelevant” because the world will be completely dystopian due to our AI and robot overlords.
Nuclear Power: TOO CHEAP TO METER.
We all know how that worked out.
Which movie?
Cue “The Gods of the Copybook Headings” poem by Kipling.
Musk should announce he is giving up his trillion dollar salary. A robot can do his job.
Anyone would guess that Musk would say something like that as he loved Iain M Banks “Culture” series where in such a society exists. His landing barge names are names of Ships in the series. The ships are run by Minds which are as far from AI as we are from ants.
I like this - robots can plant my garden and mow the grass.
Banks was a brilliant author.
The “Culture” still had plenty of issues....
Lol.
But there was no money and work was optional - the biggest problem was which drug am I going to gland now? And there was always the occasional excession ...
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