ELON MUSK SAYS NOBODY WILL NEED TO WORK SOON
Not in 50 years, but very soon.
His reasoning: AI and robotics eventually handle everything.
Every industry, every function, humans just don’t need to do it anymore.
He compared it to growing your own food.
You don’t have to, you can go to the store. But some people still do it because they want to.
That’s what he thinks work turns into, something you do for fun.
And look, maybe he’s right about the tech. AI is moving stupid fast right now, no one’s denying that.
But “machines do all the work” and “regular people benefit from machines doing all the work” are two very different things.
We were supposed to have shorter work weeks by now. That was the promise 40 years ago.
What actually happened? People work more, and get paid about the same. All the extra value went straight to the top.
So yeah, AI will probably replace most jobs eventually.
The part nobody wants to talk about is what happens to the 8 billion people who aren’t running the companies that own the AI.
That’s the actual conversation we should be having.