Elon Musk's age of abundance is an AI pipe dream soaked in snake oil, and I've about had it

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I’m sorry if I sound a little riled up. You can blame Elon Musk, who predicted a world of abundance within 10 years . We won’t need money in 2036. AI will be smarter than us, and so it will usher in an age of abundance. As for how it will do this, well, it’ll ignore the basic rules of economics, the basic rules of resources, and even physics, so somehow, we’ll have unlimited energy. All this, in Musk’s vision, will be thanks to AI and robotic automation, and, I guess, AI’s ability to solve problems and magically produce or protect limited resources like water, energy, and precious metals. The next question is whether the signal becomes a durable rollout, a pricing move, a product limitation, or a short update that fades after the news cycle.

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Speaking of precious metals. You can’t mine them without extreme resources, cost, and labor. Unless Musk believes that the robots that haltingly try to empty a dishwasher and fold clothes will somehow be able to not just dig out the precious metals but properly sort them, and then I’ll shuttle them all the way from mine to the factory and ultimately your phones. For readers, the useful frame is evidence, affected users, remaining risk, and the next point worth checking before acting. This section should name the reader group that benefits from acting now or waiting for confirmation.

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Patrick Tech Media reads this kind of move as a real utility race: the package that removes steps, bundles tools, and lowers hidden cost usually wins longer than the launch buzz. Patrick Tech Media will keep checking TechRadar to see whether the value holds once the rollout broadens. A stronger article separates the source fact, the reader impact, and the follow-up question so the piece does not feel like a loose link summary. This section should close with the next signal worth checking, not another summary of the same fact.

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