> money will be irrelevant

This idea, also espoused by Star Trek, is a curious one.

The idea of abundance leading to anyone can have anything they need or desire simply does not track.

Work should have been recognized as optional as a result of the steam engine.

In 10 to 20 years, Elon Musk is going to repeat the same claim.

Green pastures were promised to the cow that was led on a string to the slaughterhouse.

Musk said autonomous vehicles were imminent over a decade ago.

Musk's predictions have proven to be highly suspect.

work is non optional, even nialistic,narcisists got to get up and husstle to get the attention they desperatly need for survival, and mostly everybody else just likes doing and building anyway, so by work then perhaps what is implied is "work for", but then the question becomes, will paying for stuff then stop?, or will be doing without, and "work optional" become the fancy new label for slave

The muppet speaks.

Before work can be optional, ubi has to be a thing. And a conservative redneck twat like musk will fight tooth and nail against that.

What he's really expressing is a wish for humans to be optional. And fuck him, with the spikiest appendage of the meanest beast you can imagine.

I'd read Musk's message closer to "In 10 to 20 years, AI will make the working classes optional, from a tech billionaire's PoV. Proles should expect lots of pie-in-sky promises, right up 'till the Day of the Downsizing."

The absence of preoccupation with work will be a boon for destabilizing geological forces. A work-free society will have its own challenges. Bad art might be the most dominant one, if we’re lucky.