Elon Musk confidently predicted that ‘money won’t matter in 2036’, and went straight into public ownership – 17 billion-dollar burns
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If you truly believed that, within 10 years, we will be living in such an abundance that AI will provide more than “any human can possibly consume”, what would make you go out of your way to dismantle USAID today? https://t.co/HD0nMN2SIa
— Martin Bauer (@martinmbauer) July 25, 2026
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Money doesn’t matter but watch me use my money to bribe the markets and the SEC into jailbreaking the financial system to force retirees to buy my $2 trillion Space NFT. https://t.co/DRjUG6LPIW
— Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@jimstewartson) July 25, 2026
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Guy who said he'd put people on Mars in 2022, then entered politics and destroyed US infrastructure specifically because his daughter transitioned against his desires, wants to tell you that now that he's a trillionaire and others starve, "money won't matter" in a decade https://t.co/K7jmcAeXlg
— Bluubot ad astra! (@DeepVioletOcean) July 26, 2026
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Yeah money won’t matter because we’ll be living in the Stone Age again. https://t.co/i1whyRyqgM
— DreamLeaf 🌱🌻 🍉 (@DreamLeaf5) July 26, 2026
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“One day money won’t matter but for now I need ALL of it and the rest of you can slowly starve and fry! But I will repopulate the earth with my giant 🧠 and high birthing rates 😉 and robotic servants will take care of all of those children” https://t.co/KAdxsKoqEG
— Micah Thurston 🆓 🍉 (@thediabetic86) July 26, 2026
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I have never seen such a moron be taken so seriously.
— Ali Hashemi (@Ali_Hashemi_trs) July 25, 2026
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I will bet @elonmusk $2M of his dollars money will still matter in 2036. If I am right, he pays me $2M. If I am wrong and he is right, he gets nothing and that is okay because money won’t matter at that point.
— Nick Messenger (@_nickmessenger) July 25, 2026
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"Within the next ten years" is Musk-speak for "here's some shit my ketamine-addled brain just puked out". https://t.co/TendPBa9rR
— 99% Johnny Graz (@jvgraz) July 25, 2026
Inevitably, Musk’s woeful record on predictions raised its ugly head.
All anyone has to do is go back 15 years and look at all the ridiculous predictions Elmo has made about Mars, self driving cars, his ridiculous Boring Company.
No one should take anything he says seriously. https://t.co/5dpNpRl76z
— John Long (@janthonylong) July 25, 2026
It would be rude not to share this…
For no particular reason, here's Elon Musk confidently predicting fully self-driving Teslas by "next year' for 10 years straight: pic.twitter.com/C9Fdg8RHDG
— Daractenus (@Daractenus) July 25, 2026
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