Elon Musk Warns 'The Only Way to Get Us Out of the Debt Crisis' and 'Prevent America from Going Bankrupt is AI and Robot

[CentralMass]

https://share.newsbreak.com/fylp0i26

"In a wide-ranging conversation on the Joe Rogan Experience, Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk offered a characteristically direct assessment of the United States’ fiscal trajectory. Known for speaking bluntly about technology, governance, and long-term societal risks, Musk framed the national debt not merely as a political challenge, but as a structural threat to the country’s economic future. His remarks reflect longstanding concerns he has raised about government inefficiency, declining industrial productivity, and the need for technological acceleration to maintain global competitiveness.
During the discussion, Musk argued that “the only way to get us out of the debt crisis and prevent America from going bankrupt is AI and robotics,” a conclusion he reached after observing what he described as unsustainable growth in federal obligations. He noted that interest payments on the national debt now exceed major federal expenditures, including the military budget — a comparison he called a personal “wake-up call.”
According to Musk, traditional political tools are insufficient: “You can make it directionally better, but ultimately you can’t fully fix the system… there’s no way to solve the debt crisis” without economic expansion at a scale only advanced automation could provide.:

[leftstreet]

1. I thought his DOGE crap was supposed to save us

How did that work out?

[newdeal2]

2. Another BSer trying to sell us AI

To pump up his stock.

[CentralMass]

3. The jobs are disappearing as we speak.

[Iris]

34. Can you cite a source here? I'm asking sincerely.

I work in higher ed and no one knows how to even approach AI. I'm curious what fields are replacing workers with AI

[Lovie777]

4. That's one of the reasons why we are here....................

another reason, don't fucking throw people off their jobs without a an alternative of how they are going to take care of families.

Musk got so much money and he doesn't still even care.

[CentralMass]

6. A bond villian in the making.

[misanthrope]

25. I would say the making is complete

So would those who suffered and died because he gutted USAID.

[yankee87]

5. Tax the rich

Put the tax rate back to 91%.

[ProfessorGAC]

20. 50% Would Do

Besides when the rate was 91%, only a tiny percentage of people eligible for that tax rate actually paid 91%.
Make total compensation eligible to be taxed as regular wages, raise the dividend tax rate to 33% on money over $1 million, and add 39, 44, & 50% upper marginal rates on income. Again, total compensation to employment derived income of any form.
The 91% thing is typically misunderstood because how few people paid over 50% was is not discussed.

[Moostache]

30. We need a progressive wealth tax that addresses systemic abuses and prevents the existence of billionaires, period.

It should be so disadvantageous to possess more than $1,000,000,000.00 in NET assets that business owners and these current asshats would be falling all over themselves to avoid the taxes that kick in at that level. Further more, I would even support capital punishment for any billionaire caught cheating on their taxes. I would simply load them all onto Bezos' next dick shaped rocket and fire them into orbit without a return trip. Let them all off themselves in orbit.

[2naSalit]

7. FFS!

[chowder66]

8. Says the tax dodger who just demanded 1 trillion dollars and is actively undermining Democracy. Fuck That Guy!

[Paper Roses]

9. Hey Elon, with your trillions, you could do some good.

With all your money, most comes from the US, you could help the American people survive the mess you and trump have created.
You could finance healthcare for those who count on Medicare, support SNAP, and other critical situations this country is in.Your trillions could do so much for other parts of the world.
Remember, you can't take it with you! Might as well do some good after the mess you have created.

[Autumn]

10. That idiot is so full of shit it's a pathetic.

Fuck him

[Blue Owl]

11. I wouldn't trust ONE WORD out of this motherfucker's fucking mouth

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Nationalizing Eloon's loot would help /nt

[Ellipsis]

23. Just what I was thinking when I read the OP.

[sop]

13. "They say the working class is dead, we're all consumers now."

'The Age of Self' - Robert Wyatt

They say the working class is dead, we're all consumers now
They say that we have moved ahead, we're all just people now
There's people doing 'frightfully well' there's others on the shelf
But never mind the second kind this is the age of self

They say we need new images to help our movement grow
They say that life is broader based as if we didn't know
While Martin J. and Robert M. play with printer's ink
The workers 'round the world still die for Rio Tinto Zinc

And it seems to me if we forget
Our roots and where we stand
The movement will disintegrate
Like castles built on sand

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. How about real intelligence instead of the artificial kind?

[AZJonnie]

15. Well, of COURSE the solution is NOT to tax the shit out of the wealthiest Americans, bless your hearts!

No, obviously the only way is to assfuck poor/middle class people by automating all their jobs out of existence, and cutting the government benefits that keep them alive, some of which they actively paid into their whole lives.

Naturally!

[Blues Heron]

16. Tax Elon to mars and back

Then deport him for being a Nazi

[dalton99a]

17. Nazi asshole needs to overdose

[Red Mountain]

18. THIS is the latest fever dream......

A. Robots will replace the migrants doing manual labor, working as health care aids, picking crops.....

B. Tesla will be ideally positioned to supply those robots


That's it. There's nothing more to it.

The robots won't be ready. And they'll be FAR too expensive.

But they'll bump up the stock price and keep the money rolling into Elon's pockets.

[misanthrope]

26. Not just migrants

They will move on to scrubbing the world of all of us if they get their way.

[Volaris]

19. I have a better idea. Let TAX HIM.

[hatrack]

21. Yes, eliminating 10s of millions of jobs forever (with shitty AI) is the path to prosperity . . .

People will be ready to spend, spend, spend!!!!

Why does anyone take this sack of steaming kudu shit seriously on any topic?

[Melon]

22. I believe there is no stopping AI

Look at how far its come in the last 2 years. AI is now literally working to develop AI.
We are the horse and buggy laughing at the car at this point. The US can’t fall behind because Asia is developing AI and robot technologies full press.

I watched a tattoo artist interview a year ago saying he can never be replaced. How many think the same? A huge portion of tattoos are now AI drawn and the technology easily exists to develop machines to do the tattoo. Cost just needs to catch up to profit.

[misanthrope]

24. Elon Musk is a threat to humanity

He should be marginalized at the very least.

[Initech]

38. Seriously, there was a time when half a trillion dollars was considered James Bond supervillain money.

[Klarkashton]

27. Says the clown that built up his businesses on

Trading govt subsidies and bullshit.

[dweller]

28. Go try that on Mars asshole

And leave us alone … and tax the billionaires and trillionaires .

That will fix some of the mess you’ve created .




✌🏻

[patphil]

29. Wodrld wide AI and robotics will result in hundreds of millions of jobs being lost, and markets collapsing.

Where are the people who lose their jobs going to get the money to live on, let along money for non-essential goods and services? This will cause a ripple effect through the remaining economy, resulting in millions more being put out of work.
And we know governments aren't going to provide for the general welfare in an economy where there isn't anyone left to tax.
One of the first things to go away will be free, open and honest elections. The rich won't allow it.
All this could come to pass in 20-30 years.
If you don't think so, just look how much has changed in the past decade, and we're in the infancy of this whole labor revolution. It's picking up speed quickly.

[NickB79]

31. How do you get this massive economic expansion with 50 million Americans unemployed from AI replacement?

You actually need, ya know, living breathing CONSUMERS to buy the goods and services that the AI and robotics revolution will produce.

Robots and AI don't buy new homes, cars, clothes, phones, washing machines, groceries, etc.

[orangecrush]

32. ...

[maxrandb]

33. I've got a better idea Eloon

How about we tax the ever-loving piss out of you, nationalize your little fucking rocket company, take away all your fucking government contracts and subsidies, send your ass to Mars, and you try your shit ideas there?

Hopefully, it won't be long before we can send Bozos, Fuckerberg, Donnie Dipshit, Peter Thiel and a shit-ton of other billionaire incels to join you.

[Iggo]

35. Tax The Rich is another way.

[area51]

36. Robots ...

like this one?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/k4sglbOSt4U

Also, we need a universal basic income in addition to Medicare for All for when jobs will be lost.

[CentralMass]

39. That's (universal income) not going to happen.

The black hearted bastards already trying to starve the poor and eliminate healthcare.

[Initech]

37. No, the way out of the national debt is to tell a guy who wants a trillion dollars to go fuck himself.

[FormerOstrich]

40. Funny that....

I can only image what Rod Serling would think as we live in the twilight zone. At that time, smart appliances were considered a thing of horror. Little could he have known...

There is a Waymo car wash/detail station I drive by occasionally. During the summer, 115+ days in the Phoenix sun you witness driver-less cars queue up and a team of people laboring in the sun detailing the exterior of the car.

Now I am seeing DoorDash robots being followed around by a person on a bicycle wearing traffic vests....very much putting themselves between the robot vehicle and traffic.

Humans at service to the robots.

It seems to me that the jobs that SHOULD be turned over to AI are the CEO, COO, CFO, and other executive level positions. AI should be assuming those jobs not production jobs. Think of the cost reductions...no more golden parachutes, no more BONUSES, no more self-serving decision making. THOSE are the jobs that need to be turned over to AI...starting with MUSK!!