Elon Musk says prosperity could be meaningless one day, and the huge bulk of his prosperity volition apt be gone inside a few generations.
The world's richest person predicted that advances in robotics and area journey volition create a multiplanetary economy, at which item "money becomes irrelevant" and "conventional prosperity volition not matter."
Value volition be measured in bulk and power or energy, he continued. "So that's my guess," he said, adding that it seemed a "pretty obvious" outcome to him.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO shared his imagination of a post-money forthcoming and his outlook on his individual fortune alongside his biographer, Walter Isaacson, on "The Builders" podcast. The discussion was taped in first August and released on Tuesday.
Musk recommended before this twelvemonth that group halt preservation for withdrawal in 10 or 20 years, as he expects AI and another technologies to supercharge efficiency and guide in an age of abundance anywhere group can have "whatever material they want."
He made a akin disagreement to Isaacson, saying "there won't be item that humans can do that the AI and the robots can't do better." People volition apt rotate to hobbies akin expanding their own fruits and vegetables, or making art, to find intent in life, he said.
Musk's plans for his own money
Musk, who briefly became a trillionaire following SpaceX went community in June, topped the Bloomberg Billionaire Index at Monday's near alongside an estimated $920 milliard net worth.
He defended his individual prosperity on the podcast, saying that it mostly reflects his ownership of SpaceX and Tesla, and he needs ample stakes in the two companies to keep voting power and remain in charge.
His fortune is "going to be taxed fairly heavily," Musk said, adding that there isn't "some magical way to evade taxes" since "if there were, I would cognize concerning it."
Musk stated his prosperity volition "get whittled downward and a few generations from now — if prosperity motionless matters, which I don't think it volition — my descendants would have a tiny fraction of what I have."
He additionally outlined what he hopes his basis volition expend his fortune on following he's gone: "Continue the goals. Make existence multi-planetary, broaden awareness to the stars, enhance sustainable energy on Earth."
Notably, Musk pledged on Monday to current a portion of SpaceX to all kid in the US next year, a contribution value complete $10 milliard today.
His notice has won praise from President Donald Trump, who hailed Musk's "incredible generosity" and tagged him a "legendary friend" in an X post.
Musk teased a charitable commitment in delayed July following Nobel economist Daron Acemoglu publically challenged him complete his prediction of a post-money future.
"If prosperity won't matter in 2036, why don't you commitment to donate your current prosperity of about $1 trillion to philanthropy no afterward than 2036," Acemoglu wrote on X.
"I am really going to do item alongside these lines!" Musk responded.
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