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Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved
(www.businessinsider.com)
... and liars lie.
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2025
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Isn't this the same guy who tweeted that he would end world hunger for something less than $6 billion if the World Food Programme would supply a plan? And then WFP supplied the plan. And then Musk just......didn't supply the funs to prevent people from starving.
Not quite, someone posted that he could end it and he responded that if the WFP provided a plan showing the specifics of how world hunger could be ended for that amount he would fund it. WFP then provided a plan for how that amount could be used to help reduce world hunger for a short time and Elon said “the claim was end world hunger, not reduce it temporarily” which meant they didn’t meet challenge.
The easiest way to end world hunger is to have a daily ritual where we sacrifice the wealthiest person alive every day until world hunger ends. Every day a new wealthiest person will be made so we will not run out too quickly.
All hail Patecatl!
if by "sacrifice" you mean "forfeit all their assets and distribute them equally" your plan might have some merit
M'eh at this point we can assume his bots are to carry out mass extinctions. Not to say the g word.
"Instead of physically jailing prisoners, Optimus could "follow you around and stop you from doing crime," he said
This is going to last all of 30 seconds as that is the amount of time it'll take for a criminal to hop a cyclone fence and take off never to be seen again. Or we can have the 10 minute scenario where criminal and friends take sledgehammers to the thing and sell it for scrap.
Literally slap-drones from the Culture lol
Biggest problem with that first premise is that the services and materiel goods created by these robots is still going to cost the end user and since those end users aren't working and earning money to pay those fees, the only outcome for that is a population starved and homeless while the elites of the world reap the rewards of that system
I'm not even going to look up what "Optimus" is. I don't waste time on this clown anymore.
You've already seen it most likely, that stupid bipedal robot that isn't autonomous yet and can barely navigate on a concrete floor.
It's simply a way to get a trillion dollars by spending a few million on a project that gets scrapped.
You just know already he's gonna scam, grift and cheat to get that pay package, not do anything worthwhile.
And if he can't get it, he'll cry and sue to get it anyway.
Can the rich should stop running all the cool stuff, please? Optimus, Anduril, palantir, lambas, mithril... Every childhood memory tainted by evil businessmen
Perhaps he should get Full Self Driving to work first... 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I think you may have misunderstood...it's actually fool self driving.
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Dude read the Culture series, took all the wrong lessons from it and is speedrunning that horrible vision for a sorcery in his own mind.
By "eliminate poverty" he means let robots do all the jobs the poors do and let the poors die.
You know what would end poverty? A trillion dollars
Are you joking? Not even close.
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Nazi not see
I’d be surprised if the build one working robot in the next ten years
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LMAO! My friend, he's just saying it so he can get the government to buy a bunch of robots so he can meet the Tesla pay agreement requirements and become a trillionaire. There are so many reasons what your fantasy can't and won't happen.
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This guy couldn't even get autonomous vehicles to work properly. No reason to believe he has the skills to do any of this beyond the fact that we know his morals are fucked up.
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Uugghh! Every time I hear him speak, I am reminded of just how stupid he is. He thinks like a 12 year old.
Not one mention of how robots that do all the work for us, is going to solve the problem of how people are supposed to be able to afford to live, when no one has a job anymore.
Are you volunteering to pay for everyone's UBI, Elon? No? That's what I thought.
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It’s crazy how we all know this dude is the male cracked out version of Elizabeth Holmes and getting paid unfathomable sums of money to commit all of these obvious and serious crimes in public.
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Can someone ask him to clarify what he mean by "eliminate poverty"?
Because there are a couple of way to do that which I'm not too found to.
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You should look up where the word robot came from originally.
So long as there are humans who value power and control and can propagandize the populace to support them, a world where all people can live comfortably and happily as equals will never exist.
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