Elon Musk has never been one for small ideas, but his latest economic thesis might be among his most ambitious yet. The tech mogul is apparently rejecting traditional cost-cutting approaches in favor of a grand strategy: building millions of robots to boost the American economy through unprecedented automation.
This vision aligns perfectly with Tesla’s existing Optimus robot project, which Musk has previously claimed could eventually become more valuable than Tesla’s entire automotive business. Rather than focusing on austerity measures, Musk sees mass-produced humanoid robots as the key to economic expansion – essentially proposing to automate vast swaths of the economy to drive productivity gains beyond what human labor alone could achieve.
Of course, Robot King can’t help but wonder if these millions of robots will all be programmed to vote for Musk’s preferred political candidates or purchase Twitter Blue subscriptions. At the very least, they’ll probably be required to post about how brilliant their creator is – a small price to pay for economic salvation, I suppose!