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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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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 10 points 4 days ago

“takes a massive hit of ketamine and says”

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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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[–] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 days ago

This worthless nazi scum and his company can fuck off.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How is this moon-faced poseur worth that!?

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well I'm a moron too where's my trillion?

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

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

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days 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 5 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

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

[–] termaxima@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 days 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...

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Fuck Leon Hitler and his idea of eliminating poverty is China's 9-9-6 slave labor conditions.

[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Fucking prove it, you technofascist dork.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

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

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago
[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

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

[–] MyOpinion@lemmy.today 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes Elon will never face poverty but he will cut all benefits programs from those in need. He will cut all taxes he will pay and he will watch you die. That is the reality of these MAGAts.

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