ELON MUSK: “We’re going to have universal high income. We’ll basically just issue money to people." "AI and robots are going to make so much stuff and provide so many services that they’ll run out of things to do for humans." "Money will stop being relevant at some point in the future." "AI won’t use human currency. It will care about power and mass: wattage and tonnage.” ME: “So just as you’re becoming a multi-trillionaire, money starts to have less value?” ELON: “Yeah, pretty much.”

Hot take: Universities charge $300,000 for a degree that teaches you skills any LLM can do for free. At some point we need to have an honest conversation about whether higher education is the greatest individuals misallocation of capital in recent history.

The coup de grâce for democracy was Elon Musk buying this website and turning it into a psychological weapon designed to make America commit suicide. It worked. Now he’s using it to make himself a trillionaire. It’s working again. This is the missing link no one talks about.