Yup, by all means, let’s listen to what this homunculus has to say. Not like he’s got a long laundry list of lies and failures behind him or something.
Sirnando138 on
Ok. How?
It’s like when I went to Epcot in the 80s and saw the part where they showed a family in the near future living under water. At 7 years old, I was like…ok. How?
Joseph20102011 on
“In the future, Elon Musk sees humans as metaphorical vegetable farmers.
The [Tesla](https://fortune.com/company/tesla/) CEO said at the [U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wux3uZotVg) 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.”
Oh that makes sense why he demanded a TRILLION DOLLAR PAYOUT!!!!!
sharkzbyte on
Let’s ignore him. Really. Or just keep reposting his Nazi salute.
bubba-yo on
Oh, so he’s just going to give each of us a free Tesla then. Seems likely.
Sierra_Smith on
That’s a roundabout way of saying that 95% of the population will have no place in the economy.
fleranon on
god, I hope that’s true. Musks money becoming irrelevant in particular, so nobody has to care about his opinions anymore
abhulet on
If money will be irrelevant why are you amassing so much?
Skolloc753 on
Ah yes, the concept of a post-scarcity society … coming from a 400 billion USD Nazi.
What could possibly go wrong?`
SYL
MoCitytrackfan on
They said the same thing in the 70’s about computers. Instead of leisure time, we got layoffs, corporate profits and increasing CEO salaries.
Expert-Swordfish7611 on
Yeah and we’ll all be dead and buried under his techtopia
weedtrek on
Like the man with the ~~smallest penis~~ most money in the world would let that happen.
Ajgp3ps on
So no need to invest in your companies then, right? Since the returns will be meaningless?
JK_NC on
Some bullshit lies to get everyone onboard with unregulated AI free for all.
roodammy44 on
In the 1930s, John Maynard Keynes predicted by 2030 we would be working 15 hours a week. There is still 5 years left, I suppose.
We could all be working 15 hours a week if our economic system were set up that way. We are immensely more productive than we were a hundred years ago.
I feel the same thing is true with this prediction. In 20 years it might be possible that we are far more productive again. And I also feel like we will be working just as hard or harder and our lives will be more miserable. We need to change the political system to make the economy actually work for us.
Illustrious-Hawk-898 on
Lmao. Okay dude. Insane for someone like him to even suggest that.
lol
jbranchau78 on
in other words … the jobs are going away
good luck 🖕
TaskPlane1321 on
And other than the elite the rest of as plebs will starve death
EverydayFunHotS on
Utterly impossible. It’s not a matter of productivity but of politics and governance.
Humanity is more productive now yet we work more compared to half a century ago.
When some humans aren’t needed for productivity they’ll simply be left behind.
TheMailNeverFails on
May as well ask a random off the street that they think and write about that, Elon doesn’t really have any credibility left
Teamfreshcanada on
This would require socialized wealth distribution to the population. People without jobs will have no income stream without a universal basic income, or a universal distribution of goods and services. Something that I feel is antithetical to Elon’s desired future.
Buttertubbs on
There will always be a division between haves and have-nots. Money may be irrelevant, but what will the new dividing line end up being? Probably some kind of social control. Those who play nice with the system can participate, those who do not will be locked out. Who will be the new billionaires? Well those who have been determined to be experts, of course! Same system, different means of control. Nothing new under the sun.
romance_in_durango on
Based on the accuracy of his other predictions, this will never happen, and instead we will all work for AI and the robots.
Limebird02 on
We will all be long dead by then. By that time asi will likely have moved beyond us.
Arbiter61 on
**In the business world, this is what is conventionally referred to as a “marketing ploy.”**
Capital class tycoons have used the notion of technology leading to more wealth and less work since at least the 19th century (that I know of), and the Industrial Revolution, the Computer Age, and several other milestones have come and gone.
But the only real progress that led to more wealth and less work was the pro-labor, pro-union, New Deal era policies that expanded rights and guarantees for all Americans.
**The wealthy want you to think they are going to “take care of everything for you.”** But when has a billionaire ever given away something they weren’t forced to give away?
These are the same guys who pretend they are giving their fortunes away to charity, when all they’re actually doing is shunting their enormous wealth into one of many tax dodges (non-profits can hide billions, tax-free, so long as they spend a tiny amount of their endowment each year).
So, no, **AI and the rich will not save us from the societal structure they built and benefit from.** They are simply using that lie to diminish oversight and resistance to a series of policies that will only harm the average person across the world far more than it benefits them.
**Soon, they will not need you for anything.** So why do you think that *(the moment where all your leverage is gone)* will be the moment they will give you the world – for free?
Chuck_L_Fucurr on
If that were true he would simply help out people now with some of the Trillion dollars he has
sffiremonkey69 on
And that’s why he has a trillion dollar pay package… because money won’t mean anything
BigMoney69x on
Only way to do this is by legislation because if let be companies will Maximize profit above all ELSE. I wish I could have been the one interviewing Musk because a good follow-up would be. If Advancement in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics makes it more productive to have them do the things we don’t want to do how would we setup society in such a way where your livelihood is not tied to your job?
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Yup, by all means, let’s listen to what this homunculus has to say. Not like he’s got a long laundry list of lies and failures behind him or something.
Ok. How?
It’s like when I went to Epcot in the 80s and saw the part where they showed a family in the near future living under water. At 7 years old, I was like…ok. How?
“In the future, Elon Musk sees humans as metaphorical vegetable farmers.
The [Tesla](https://fortune.com/company/tesla/) CEO said at the [U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wux3uZotVg) 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](https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk/), has made the recent push to expand Tesla beyond just electric vehicles, working on [consolidating his sprawling business interests](https://fortune.com/2025/07/14/elon-musk-promises-tesla-shareholders-vote-buying-equity-grok-startup-xai/) into his broader vision of an AI-fueled, robotic-powered future. That includes his goal of having [80% of Tesla’s value](https://fortune.com/2025/09/02/elon-musk-optimus-robots-tesla-master-plan/) come from his Optimus robots, despite continuous [production delays](https://fortune.com/article/elon-musk-tesla-optimus-robots-china-rare-earths/) for the humanoid bots.”
Oh that makes sense why he demanded a TRILLION DOLLAR PAYOUT!!!!!
Let’s ignore him. Really. Or just keep reposting his Nazi salute.
Oh, so he’s just going to give each of us a free Tesla then. Seems likely.
That’s a roundabout way of saying that 95% of the population will have no place in the economy.
god, I hope that’s true. Musks money becoming irrelevant in particular, so nobody has to care about his opinions anymore
If money will be irrelevant why are you amassing so much?
Ah yes, the concept of a post-scarcity society … coming from a 400 billion USD Nazi.
What could possibly go wrong?`
SYL
They said the same thing in the 70’s about computers. Instead of leisure time, we got layoffs, corporate profits and increasing CEO salaries.
Yeah and we’ll all be dead and buried under his techtopia
Like the man with the ~~smallest penis~~ most money in the world would let that happen.
So no need to invest in your companies then, right? Since the returns will be meaningless?
Some bullshit lies to get everyone onboard with unregulated AI free for all.
In the 1930s, John Maynard Keynes predicted by 2030 we would be working 15 hours a week. There is still 5 years left, I suppose.
We could all be working 15 hours a week if our economic system were set up that way. We are immensely more productive than we were a hundred years ago.
I feel the same thing is true with this prediction. In 20 years it might be possible that we are far more productive again. And I also feel like we will be working just as hard or harder and our lives will be more miserable. We need to change the political system to make the economy actually work for us.
Lmao. Okay dude. Insane for someone like him to even suggest that.
lol
in other words … the jobs are going away
good luck 🖕
And other than the elite the rest of as plebs will starve death
Utterly impossible. It’s not a matter of productivity but of politics and governance.
Humanity is more productive now yet we work more compared to half a century ago.
When some humans aren’t needed for productivity they’ll simply be left behind.
May as well ask a random off the street that they think and write about that, Elon doesn’t really have any credibility left
This would require socialized wealth distribution to the population. People without jobs will have no income stream without a universal basic income, or a universal distribution of goods and services. Something that I feel is antithetical to Elon’s desired future.
There will always be a division between haves and have-nots. Money may be irrelevant, but what will the new dividing line end up being? Probably some kind of social control. Those who play nice with the system can participate, those who do not will be locked out. Who will be the new billionaires? Well those who have been determined to be experts, of course! Same system, different means of control. Nothing new under the sun.
Based on the accuracy of his other predictions, this will never happen, and instead we will all work for AI and the robots.
We will all be long dead by then. By that time asi will likely have moved beyond us.
**In the business world, this is what is conventionally referred to as a “marketing ploy.”**
Capital class tycoons have used the notion of technology leading to more wealth and less work since at least the 19th century (that I know of), and the Industrial Revolution, the Computer Age, and several other milestones have come and gone.
But the only real progress that led to more wealth and less work was the pro-labor, pro-union, New Deal era policies that expanded rights and guarantees for all Americans.
**The wealthy want you to think they are going to “take care of everything for you.”** But when has a billionaire ever given away something they weren’t forced to give away?
These are the same guys who pretend they are giving their fortunes away to charity, when all they’re actually doing is shunting their enormous wealth into one of many tax dodges (non-profits can hide billions, tax-free, so long as they spend a tiny amount of their endowment each year).
So, no, **AI and the rich will not save us from the societal structure they built and benefit from.** They are simply using that lie to diminish oversight and resistance to a series of policies that will only harm the average person across the world far more than it benefits them.
**Soon, they will not need you for anything.** So why do you think that *(the moment where all your leverage is gone)* will be the moment they will give you the world – for free?
If that were true he would simply help out people now with some of the Trillion dollars he has
And that’s why he has a trillion dollar pay package… because money won’t mean anything
Only way to do this is by legislation because if let be companies will Maximize profit above all ELSE. I wish I could have been the one interviewing Musk because a good follow-up would be. If Advancement in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics makes it more productive to have them do the things we don’t want to do how would we setup society in such a way where your livelihood is not tied to your job?