Elon Musk dropped a thermonuclear prediction yesterday: within the next few years, money will become utterly meaningless because AI and robots will produce every physical good in unlimited quantities for zero cost.

Speaking at the xAI annual summit, the world’s richest man stated bluntly that universal abundance is no longer science fiction but an engineering problem that will be solved before 2030, rendering all currencies worthless.

Banks, wages, mortgages, student loans, entire financial systems built over centuries will collapse overnight once Optimus humanoid robots and automated factories can manufacture anything faster and cheaper than any human ever could.

Musk demonstrated live footage of Optimus folding laundry, cooking meals, and assembling Tesla vehicles with superhuman precision, promising millions of units deployed globally by 2027 and billions by 2029.

He claimed energy will be the only real constraint, but Starship and next-generation solar plus battery storage will deliver practically infinite clean power at near-zero marginal cost within the same timeframe.

Food, clothing, housing, transportation, medical care, every material need will become free the way internet bandwidth became free for most people in developed countries over the last two decades.

The declaration instantly crashed several economic forecasting websites as millions searched for terms like “post-scarcity economy” and “universal basic income collapse.”

Central bankers reportedly held emergency calls, while hedge funds began shorting traditional financial stocks and piling into companies positioned for robotic manufacturing and energy abundance.

Musk warned that governments clinging to scarcity-based monetary policy will become irrelevant as citizens simply stop needing salaries, welfare, or taxation to survive.

He predicted violent resistance from institutions that profit from artificial scarcity, comparing the coming upheaval to the Protestant Reformation or the fall of feudalism, only compressed into less than a decade.

Traditional economists immediately labeled the timeline insane, insisting that distribution logistics, regulatory hurdles, and raw material limits make universal free production impossible before 2050 at the earliest.

Musk countered by showing real-time data: Tesla’s Shanghai gigafactory already produces a Cybertruck every seven seconds with fewer than fifty human workers on the entire production floor.

SpaceX now reuses Falcon boosters more than twenty times each, driving launch costs from hundreds of millions to under thirty million per flight, proving exponential cost reduction is already happening across industries.

Neuralink trials have begun restoring sight to the blind and movement to quadriplegics, hinting that even biological limitations will soon fall before the same abundance curve.

Bitcoin maximalists celebrated, arguing cryptocurrency could become the last store of value in a world where everything else is free, while others fear total societal breakdown without artificial scarcity.

Musk dismissed both extremes, insisting the real challenge is not production but meaning: once survival is guaranteed, humanity must find new purpose or risk mass depression and social collapse.

He announced xAI will prioritize discovering “the ultimate question” of human existence to give people something worth living for when work becomes optional and material wants disappear forever.

Governments are already drafting emergency legislation for universal basic services instead of income, while defense contractors quietly pivot toward robotic security forces to protect remaining hierarchies.

Real estate markets in major cities dropped ten percent overnight as investors realized nobody will pay rent when robots can 3D-print luxury homes anywhere on Earth in days for pennies.

Luxury brands from Louis Vuitton to Ferrari saw shares plummet as analysts realized their entire business model of artificial scarcity will evaporate once perfect replicas cost nothing to produce.

Religious leaders warned of spiritual crisis when material desire disappears, while transhumanists celebrated the arrival of what they call “the final economic singularity.”

Musk ended his presentation with a single slide showing Earth from space and the words: “Abundance is coming whether you’re ready or not. Choose what you will do with a solved civilization.”

The audience of engineers gave a standing ovation that lasted seven minutes while global markets convulsed and philosophers scrambled to understand what comes after capitalism itself.

For the first time in recorded history, one man has credibly announced the scheduled end of economic scarcity, and the entire world now counts down to the day money dies.