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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    Perhaps he should get Full Self Driving to work first… 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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      Ooh ooh and that hyper-loop bullshit. Oh and that tunnel boreing thing.

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    in the oligarchs dialect it translates to “eliminate the poor not useful for slave labour”

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

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    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.

    That’s wrong, new layers of generalization do you know what? They make the thing cheaper or more expensive depending on the balance between the buyer and the seller, which is changed. Nothing more.

    And suppose you’re the all-powerful and simultaneously benevolent seller, as a thought experiment. The thing becomes cheaper or more expensive based on its applicability to tasks and your ability to generalize that.

    It’s a big matter, manual labor and trades are the part of economies least affected by centralized control and computerization. With software development you can’t replace people with chatbots. But with repeating manual tasks like replacing a window or painting a wall - possible. I mean, no, I don’t think that’s possible either, too many small complications. I don’t know what Elon is on again, of course you need some substances to keep you going in this world when you’re autistic, none of us will judge him for that.

    Anyway, your direction of thought is kaboom idiotic, see, you’re as valuable as you’re needed, everything else is driven by that. I mentioned autistic people, well, most people not autistic don’t even notice how rules of dignity and morality they start applying only the layer above their basic one, of social hierarchy and power and alliances. Elon is known to be autistic and there’s a trillion in the title, so he really might believe what he’s selling, but those of us without trillions or even measly billions should know better.

    So - robots fulfilling demand mean people not being in demand. That sucks.

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    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.

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    By “eliminate poverty” he means let robots do all the jobs the poors do and let the poors die.

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    This guy couldn’t even get autonomous vehicles to work properly. No reason to believe he has the skills to do any of this beyond the fact that we know his morals are fucked up.

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      He can’t even hire people that can do it let alone do any of it himself.

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      He isn’t, the economy and business is all a rigged sham.

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          You first need to have more than $1 million dollars in order to qualify for free money.

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    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!!!

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    It’s crazy how we all know this dude is the male cracked out version of Elizabeth Holmes and getting paid unfathomable sums of money to commit all of these obvious and serious crimes in public.

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      These are forward looking claims on something they are building. It’s not quite the same.

      FSD is closer, but it is an improving product.

      It’d be more like if FSD wasn’t ever improving even and yet he still kept making the claims.

      He should still be punished for the FSD stuff though.

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    There are established methods of eliminating poverty. They are decried by the right-wing as bad.

    Just look at why there are so few homeless and incarcerated people in the most developed European nations… they must be doing something right.

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

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      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!

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    He also said in his shareholder speech that Optimus would replace the penal system by following offenders around to prevent them committing crimes. He’s a fucking moron who’s been able to get away with making up complete bullshit to pump Tesla’s stock price for years and for some reason people STILL treat him with credulity.