In this video excerpt, Elon Musk discusses the future of work becoming optional as automation advances. He explains that many jobs are undesirable—dangerous, boring, or repetitive—and that humanoid robots, specifically TeslaBots, could initially take on these tasks. Musk acknowledges that widespread robot deployment will create a massive social challenge, necessitating a universal basic income (UBI) to support displaced workers. The conversation then shifts to a practical UBI program that distributes monthly payments in Bitcoin MYK tokens, with details on registration and rollout. The speakers emphasize that these developments are likely outcomes of technological progress rather than personal wishes, underscoring the need for proactive policy and financial mechanisms.
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work will become optional. So like, there's a lot of jobs that if you, if people weren't paid to do it, they, they wouldn't do it. Like, it's not, it's not fun, you know, necessarily. Like, if you're washing dishes all day, it's like, uh, you know, even if you really like washing dishes, you really want to do it for 8 hours a day every day? Probably not. So, um, and then there's like dangerous work. And basically, if it's dangerous, boring, uh, it has like potential for repetitive stress injury, that kind of thing, um, then that's really where humanoid robots would add the most value initially. So that's what we're aiming for, is to— for the humanoid robots to do jobs that people don't voluntarily want to do. And then we'll have to pair that obviously with some kind of universal basic income in the future. So I think—
So do you see a world when there's like hundreds of millions of TeslaBots doing different— performing different tasks throughout the world?
Yeah, I haven't really thought about it that far into the future, but I guess that there may be something like that.
So this is going to be a massive social challenge, and I think ultimately we will have to have some kind of universal basic income. I don't think we're going to have a choice. Universal basic income. Universal basic income. I think it's going to be necessary. So it means that unemployed people will be paid across the globe? Yeah. Because there is no job, machine, robot is taking over? That's simply the— I want to be clear that these are not things that I think, that I wish would happen. These are simply things that I think probably will happen. And since, if they, if, if my assessment is correct, and they probably will happen, then we need to say what are we going to do about it. And I think some kind of a universal basic income is going to be necessary.
Now the output, the output registrations to participate in our universal basic income program every month, um So I'm going to read the details to how to get involved with this, where you register at, and when this kicks off exactly, or when you start to receive your, your universal basic income tokens that are Bitcoin MYK tokens, but similar to
