Elon Musk’s Truth About Money and AI That No One Wants to Hear
When Robots Take Over, What Happens to Money?
Elon Musk said something that sounds almost innocent but is actually dynamite: money is not wealth. It is only an information system for labor allocation. It has no power on its own. It is a ledger, a script, a database that tells society where to place its energy.
Once you see it this way, the mystique dissolves. Neither gold, nor dollars, nor Bitcoin are wealth in themselves. They are simply systems of coordination.
And as in any play, whoever writes the script controls the narrative. Central banks matter more than parliaments because they decide how the effort of millions is allocated. Empires never die on the battlefield. They die when their currency collapses. Rome, Spain, Britain, the United States the same story told with different symbols on the coins.
But Musk pushes the idea further into uncomfortable territory. If money is an information system for allocating human labor, what happens when human labor itself is no longer necessary? If AI and robots take over pro…