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Indulge me for the coming delusion, but if we ignore who this is, forget all the reasons we know that we can't trust him, and allow ourselves just a few moments to hope that we could live in such a world.

A world where manual labor is no longer needed, where people can just exist as large mammals are meant to exist. Robots will handle it all and we can just do as we please... and the robots are going to be plentiful because once enough of the process of making a robot becomes automated, the cost of it will go to zero. But to get there it is going to require a ton of money... these robots are going to be way too expensive for people to actually buy them, so investors and governments will help out. The investors will eventually lose everything, but that will put us on the way to having everything we need to be created through completely automated systems.

Of course, there will still be jobs for those who really want them - or more likely, who want them and are good at them - or even more likely, who knows the right people... but if we can get our basic needs taken care of it night not fully end poverty but it would be a step in the right direction.

But, alas... It's Musk saying it so it's only to further enrich himself and won't actually happen.

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[–] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

This worthless nazi scum and his company can fuck off.

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’d be surprised if the build one working robot in the next ten years

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[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago

Everyone single one of his companies is propped up on bullshit and government contracts. Tesla stock is a meme stock. The board and major shareholders will buy up all his bullshit and broken promises just to keep the stock price up. They cannot afford to have Tesla stock go down. Only up.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 10 points 1 week ago

“takes a massive hit of ketamine and says”

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mhm. Sure. I totally trust the guy who didn't walk the talk when the UN presented him a plan for solving hunger.

[–] fort_burp@feddit.nl 11 points 1 week ago

Yup. That was 5 years ago and his fortune has like tripled since then. Well, his latest pay package is worth more than triple of what he was worth 5 years ago ($1 tn vs $300 bn).

We should totally trust him this time though!

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'll fix everything, first i just need all the money... I mean, if I'm not given all the money, what do you expect me to do? Just hang out with concepts of ideas?

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

If the US had a sane government, the answer would be: "We already gave you all the money, and see what happened. Fool me once etc."

[–] arsCynic@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

No wonder Musk was bullied as a kid.

[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Robots will cull the poor people so therefore we will have abundance.

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[–] korendian@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago
[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

His plan to eliminate poverty is to erase that class of people. However that may be... UBI, or "Basic" as the Expanse put it, is the definite solution to a lot of what ails the world, but until we can get past all the greed that runs our politics and our countries, it's a pipe dream.

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's a Nazi. He has thought of a more Final Solution to the Poverty Problem.

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[–] Plurrbear@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Fuck him and his hair plugs!!!! They probably have more intelligence than his damn brain!!

Just proves, suck enough dicks and give enough money get what you want!

America is so fucked under Drumpf the generational of illegals and the war dodgers who marry immigrants but keep deporting US citizens…

FUCK THE DRUMPF FAMILY!!!

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

You should look up where the word robot came from originally.

So long as there are humans who value power and control and can propagandize the populace to support them, a world where all people can live comfortably and happily as equals will never exist.

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

M'eh at this point we can assume his bots are to carry out mass extinctions. Not to say the g word.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's only one Optimus I would trust like that, and it's not the Amazon one.

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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How people get investing in this shit show is beyond me.

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Elon musk says he is going to kill all poor people.

[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Hilarious that he was retained to just pump the stock with bullshit promises.

[–] Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

Is "Optimus" a brand of wood-chippers?

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Rich people will work to kill the poor off if they don’t need them anymore. This is very bad.

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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The only way a world like this could happen is if the governments get onboard and do a UBI or similar thing.

What's going to happen is the robots will get made (by someone, eventually) workforces will start laying people off and there won't be anywhere near enough jobs.

Now there's 2 options for the USA

  1. Government steps in does something to support people to have a comfortable (not poverty life)

  2. Government bends to the corpos and does nothing and poverty and suffering skyrockets.

For the USA at least, I can't see them doing #1. It would take a revolution to make a change like that happen, and it'd be bloody.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Nazi not see

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is the world most of us want to live in I would think.

He is not the one to deliver it. He doesn't really want that. If he did, he wouldn't want $1t let alone fight to get it. Let alone all the other vile shit he has done, and will do.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

How is this moon-faced poseur worth that!?

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Elon must have gotten some ketamine cut with Ajax cleaner to have this dilution.

[–] termaxima@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago

I would have personally approved of a trillion dollar project to make sure this plan DOES NOT happen.

But he's going to steal all the money anyway, and use it to escape to Mars, only to die on the launch pad when the rocket predictably explodes...

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

If you eliminate people, you also eliminate poverty.

How many workers you think is going to be needed in this potential future the elites are building?

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[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Dude read the Culture series, took all the wrong lessons from it and is speedrunning that horrible vision for a sorcery in his own mind.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Is he gonna give everyone on the planet some of that $1T? He could give everyone a hundred bucks with that kind of money.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

I hope his solution doesn't mean kill the poor and hungry.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago
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