cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/48495641
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.
Optimus will finally make it possible for us (the 1%) to eliminate poverty for 2 reasons: First because we don’t need the poor anymore for manual labor, and second because with Optimus we can automate their extermination.
That’s the only way the 1% could eliminate poverty. If it were at all possible.
Yes, it will definitely not be the 1% that eliminate poverty, but when a majority decides to do so.
They won’t necessarily kill or exterminate us. They’ll just let us die.
No, the value of the top 1% would go down of nobody is left to buy their products, services, software, finance their tax breaks or produce all the goods they need.
Bruh still hasn’t delivered on self driving.
One of you is using the monkey’s paw again, aren’t you?
Elon wants to eliminate poverty but thinks poverty are the poor. He wants to get rid of the poor and his robot army is going to remove everyone who he has made poor.
And then Optimus will come around to your house, and it will give everyone free ice cream. Whatever flavor you like! Then Optimus will save all the sick animals and make them better, and fix the ozone layer, and stop crime. Optimus is going to cure cancer, and eliminate traffic jams, and make me the most popular man in the world. A true communist utopia.
It will even fuck your wives and implant a seed directly from Musk’s personal Tesla sperm dispenser.
All this progress from a person who can’t even ensure his self-driving vehicles don’t hit emergency vehicles.
The product isn’t Optimus, the product is bullshit and investors love it.
Fuck this nazi piece of shit.
By “eliminate poverty” he means killing all the poor people with his robot army.
The best thing he could do for the world would be to take up a fentanyl hobby.
He’s in such a hurry to create The Culture that he doesn’t even realize it’s a -left- wing utopia.
Will he use his new trillion dollars for betterment of humankind?
He’s not getting $1T, no matter what.
With his money, he could eliminate poverty right now. Why wait?
Il wait until he follows through on even one of his grandiose promises.
No he won’t.
The cost of such a luxury will never approach zero
