{"id":2514794,"date":"2025-11-26T10:51:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-paints-a-picture-of-a-future-in-which-work-is-optional-and-money-is-irrelevant\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T10:52:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:52:38","slug":"elon-musk-paints-a-picture-of-a-future-in-which-work-is-optional-and-money-is-irrelevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-paints-a-picture-of-a-future-in-which-work-is-optional-and-money-is-irrelevant\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Paints a Picture of a Future in Which Work Is Optional and Money Is Irrelevant"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-paints-a-picture-of-a-future-in-which-work-is-optional-and-money-is-irrelevant%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2514794&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Elon Musk predicts that within 10 to 20 years, work will become optional and money may no longer be relevant due to advances in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/from-impeaching-incitement-to-canceling-conservatism\/\" title=\"From Impeaching Incitement to Canceling Conservatism\">artificial intelligence<\/a> and robotics. Speaking at the U.S.-Saudi Investment forum,Musk suggested that AI and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-america-declines-the-media-obsess-over-gop-squabbles\/\" title=\"GRAHAM: America Declines. The Media Obsess Over GOP Squabbles\">humanoid robots<\/a> will revolutionize society,making poverty obsolete by creating unprecedented wealth. He envisions a future where people work only if they want to-similar to hobbies like gardening-and where currency becomes unnecessary as technology meets basic needs. Musk highlighted Tesla&#8217;s goal to produce practical humanoid robots and referenced sci-fi concepts like &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; droids to illustrate the widespread appeal of such technology. He also mentioned the &#8220;Culture&#8221; book series by Iain Banks as a positive vision of an AI-driven future without money.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>If Elon Musk is correct, we could wake up one day in a world in which work is optional and money is no longer relevant.<\/p>\n<p>The world&rsquo;s wealthiest man made the comment last week during a panel conversation with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Saudi communications and technology minister Abdullah al-Swaha at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd applauded when Musk predicted that &ldquo;work will be optional&rdquo; in about 10 to 20 years thanks to artificial intelligence, People <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/elon-musk-suggests-ai-will-make-work-optional-and-money-irrelevant-11853603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;ll be like playing sports or a video game or something like that,&rdquo; he went on.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If you want to work, you know, in the same way &mdash; like, you can go to the store and just buy some vegetables, or you could grow vegetables in your backyard,&rdquo; Musk said.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); 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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=85b3g8c8\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s much harder to grow vegetables in your backyard, but some people still do it, because they like growing vegetables.&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That will be what work is like &mdash; optional.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Musk admitted that &ldquo;between now and then, there&rsquo;s actually a lot of work to get to that point.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WATCH: Elon Musk Delivers Remarks at the U.S. - Saudi Investment Forum - 11\/19\/25\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hwBzOceMz08?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>But he also believes that Tesla, one of his companies, is going to &ldquo;make the first actually useful humanoid robots. This will be quite a revolution and, I think, something that everyone will want.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He reminded his listeners of the humanoid robot characters in the &ldquo;Star Wars&rdquo; movie series. &ldquo;Who wouldn&rsquo;t want their own personal C-3PO or R2-D2? Of course everyone would want one, right?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s why I say that humanoid robots will be the biggest industry or the biggest product ever &mdash; bigger than cell phones or anything else.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But AI and humanoid robots will actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/waters-manchin-killing-build-back-better-is-disgusting-force-him-to-vote\/\" title=\"Waters: Manchin Killing Build Back Better Is &#039;Disgusting&#039; -- Force Him to Vote\">eliminate poverty<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Without explaining exactly how it will happen, Musk declared, &ldquo;There is only basically one way to make everyone wealthy, and that is AI and robotics.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Musk made his comment about work becoming optional when the talk turned to the prospect of AI taking people&rsquo;s jobs away.<\/p>\n<p>While discussing that, he recommended the works of Iain Banks, author of the &ldquo;Culture&rdquo; series, in order to &ldquo;get a sense for what a probable positive AI future is like.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And interestingly, in those books, money is no longer&hellip; it doesn&rsquo;t exist. It&rsquo;s kind of interesting,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And my guess is &mdash; if you go out long enough, assuming there&rsquo;s a continued improvement in AI and robotics, which seems likely &mdash; money will stop being relevant at some point in the future,&rdquo; Musk predicted.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Now there will still be constraints on power, like electricity and mass. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >fundamental physics elements<\/a> will still be constraints,&rdquo; he added.&nbsp;&ldquo;But I think, at some point, currency becomes irrelevant.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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The billionaire shared this idea last week during a panel discussion with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Saudi Arabia&#8217;s communications and technology minister Abdullah al-Swaha at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington, D.C. The audience applauded when Musk predicted that within 10 to 20 years, artificial intelligence will make work optional. He compared it to playing sports or video games-something people do by choice rather than necessity. Musk explained that just as some people grow vegetables in their backyard because they enjoy it, work will become something people do voluntarily rather than out of obligation.<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledged that reaching this future will require significant effort but expressed confidence that Tesla will create the first truly useful humanoid robots, which he believes will revolutionize industries and be highly desired-much like the droids C-3PO or R2-D2 from Star Wars. According to Musk, these AI-driven robots could ultimately eradicate poverty by making wealth accessible to all.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing concerns about AI replacing jobs, Musk recommended reading Iain Banks&#8217; &#8220;Culture&#8221; series for an optimistic vision of AI&#8217;s role in society-a future where money no longer exists because advanced AI and robotics have transformed how resources are distributed. While physical limits like energy remain constraints, he predicts currency itself may eventually become obsolete as technology advances<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2514795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Elon-Musk-talks-about-the-future.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[60015,32192,67750,56890],"class_list":["post-2514794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-automation-2","tag-elon-musk","tag-future-of-work","tag-universal-basic-income"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Elon-Musk-talks-about-the-future.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2514794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2514798,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514794\/revisions\/2514798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2514795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2514794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2514794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2514794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}