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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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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Biggest problem with that first premise is that the services and materiel goods created by these robots is still going to cost the end user and since those end users aren't working and earning money to pay those fees, the only outcome for that is a population starved and homeless while the elites of the world reap the rewards of that system

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days 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.

[–] gwildors_gill_slits@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I’m not sure if this kind of thing is just about enriching himself. Of course that’s a big part of it. But he also wants to be a great man of history. He wants to be the person who saves the world. He wants to be forever remembered as the greatest hero who ever lived.

He won’t, of course. Because he’s a clueless idiot. A clueless idiot who managed to fuck up his own PR so hard that he’s burnt away the reputation as a genius that he used to have.

But he really does want to be adored.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

In late October 2021, Elon Musk was challenged to end world hunger by David Beasley, the director of the UN's World Food Programme. Beasley claimed that a small portion of Musk's wealth could solve world hunger, and Musk responded on Twitter that he would sell Tesla stock to do so, provided the UN could provide a detailed, transparent accounting of how the $6 billion would be spent. The WFP then released a plan, but Musk did not donate the money.

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[–] Plurrbear@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days 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!!!

[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He probably means it'll feed the poor into a wood chipper.

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[–] Teal@piefed.zip 12 points 4 days ago

Someone didn’t learn lessons from Wall-E. Who am I kidding, his ego is too inflated to learn.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He sounds quite deranged. Maybe he needs a timeout in a sift padded room. Without internet.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

he needs to lay off the ketamine and cocaine.

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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 10 points 4 days 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 4 days 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!

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago
[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 14 points 4 days ago

Lets imagine things go just as he wants and we have army of robots doing all the work and such. Robots who he controls. All over the world, most likely, if they are really useful. People would start to depend on them more and more. Imagine if someone could turn off your every convenicence, or your entire country at a whim?

These people already have all the money in the world, yet they will never be satisfied. What is even left for them except complete domination of all of us?

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I too hope and dream for Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism; however, to achieve such lofty goals would require challenging the status quo and "The System" is built, and depends entirely on that not changing. So yeah, I doubt we'll achieve that anytime soon or at all seeing how well we're protecting the climate... IMO we'll all be ~~living in a dystopian Mad Max-like world~~ dead.

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[–] korendian@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 days ago
[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 days ago

It’s totally achievable; he just glossed over the part where most of the world’s population is wiped out by global warming and the only people who survive are Elon and those he deems worthy.

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 days 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.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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.

[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Come on, nobody is going to eliminate poverty. That's not on the agenda.

Plus we don't even have a road how to make robots that could make other robots.

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[–] Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago

Is "Optimus" a brand of wood-chippers?

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