Elon Musk work optional AI humanoid robots
So Elon Musk says work becomes optional in 10 to 20 years. That's a wild thought, but here's the catch: if AI and humanoid robots handle most of the work, the whole exchange of hours for salary, the deal we've had for 200 years, just collapses. The leverage flips from labor to systems, and money flows to whoever owns the machines, not the people selling time. It's a shift from earning by showing up to owning something that earns while you sleep. And the scary part? It's already possible on a small scale. I've got a guide on how one person can run an entire operation with Grok Bot, and honestly, the implications are huge.
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In five years, we'll have probably, so five years being, say, 2031, I think digital intelligence will exceed the sum of all human intelligence. That there will be, in five years, probably, there might be, let's say, at least 100 million humanoid robots, but maybe a billion. Yeah. All right. And I would predict that the economy is probably twice its current size in five, maybe six years. Five to seven years. Because you're going to hit a doubling period. where the economic output is increasing so fast that plus minus a few years, we'll see giant change.
