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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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[–] r00ty@kbin.life 6 points 5 days ago (1 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.

[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Really, the bullshit master that fucked all US potential in the current space race in the ass with a gigantic steel dildo and got even richer, is not gonna end poverty?

At most only for those that are willing to call him "god emperor".

[–] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

At most only for those that are willing to call him "god emperor".

Only until he gets bored of it. Once he gets bored of the boot lickers he'll make soap from them.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 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?

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Which is why I never understood the anti birth control rhetoric from them. Like wtf? you hate the poor but wont them make choice for finacial stability? Sadistic pos humans.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Its because they think most humans are useless eaters, and this is based on the idea that your human value is connected to how much money you make.

They also think most humans are dumb and just doesnt contribute anything.

The idea that humans can be here to just enjoy their life is something they absolutely despise.

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

He's talking about a system to eliminate, not support and elevate the poor here, mark my words. Do not give this brain-damaged, broke-dick, eternally divorced Lex Luthor anything but sentencing for crimes against humanity.

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago
[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

1 trillion dollars is like $3000 per american right? How can they have that much money to pay him?

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

TRANSLATION: Optimus is programmed to kill poor people...

[–] goatinspace@feddit.org 5 points 5 days ago

It'll do it more efficiently

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

Musk = POS Nazi.

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

The journalists clearly misheard him. He is just fighting against caffeinated drinks, in this case he’s focusing on eliminating power tea.

[–] angelmountain@feddit.nl 4 points 5 days ago
[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago
[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Just picture him talking with two action figures in his hands and it all makes sense

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago

Put him on a stage where he can praise "his" achievements, Me-lon will say all sorts of stupid shit, for hours on end.

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

While overall poverty rates have improved considerably in recent decades, several individual countries have experienced a rise in poverty. As previously mentioned, 696 million people still live in extreme poverty, surviving on less than $1.90 (INT) per day

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/poverty-rate-by-country

He could just gift all of those people $1400 each which would keep them above the poverty line for two years and still have a shit load of money for himself.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 5 days ago

except billionaires are most extreme misers and cheapskates of any people.

[–] SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

In fact, if we imagine realistically the world that such people talk about, we are faced with a blade runner + rapid depletion of resources = slow degradation of man and a return to the Middle Ages, only with a terrible climate and a planet unsuitable for human life.

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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I'm gonna call major bullshit. He's just riding the high of that insane paycheck (among other things, allegedly).

Nobody having to work and everyone living in a communist utopia? I know a few books that start that way, and those societies are not all roses and sunshine.

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