Elon Musk: Money Won’t Matter in 2036

Elon Musk predicts that money won’t matter in 2036—but only if AI and robots create abundance on a scale beyond human consumption.

Zanny Minton Beddoes asks how Musk’s companies make money when shareholders still expect returns. Musk answers by asking what money is for: goods and services such as food, housing, transport and entertainment. If AI and robots can provide more of those things than any person could possibly consume, he argues, what would money still be needed for?

This is Musk’s conditional forecast, not a demonstrated economic result or an established 2036 timetable. The excerpt does not show that scarcity, prices, ownership, distribution, energy, land or access would disappear.

Interview:

@TheEconomist, “The full-length interview with Elon Musk”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuoqKYxDHVc

Interviewer: Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor-in-chief of The Economist

Source passages: 04:31–04:42 and 04:54–05:26The Economist’s subscription bumper between the passages was removed; the interview order is unchanged. Reformatted and captioned for vertical viewing.

AI disclosure:The music was made with Suno. The final half-second selector frame and thumbnail use a stylized AI-generated composite based on authentic reference frames from the interview. Musk’s interview footage and speech are authentic.

If goods and services became radically abundant, what would money still be for?

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