ELON MUSK JUST SAID OPTIMUS WILL “ELIMINATE POVERTY” AND NOBODY’S FREAKING OUT
Tesla’s $20,000 humanoid robot isn’t coming. It’s here. Production lines running. Right now.
And Elon just said the quiet part so loud it should’ve stopped the world:
“Optimus will actually eliminate poverty. Optimus will actually give people incredible medical care. Optimus will ultimately be better than the best human surgeon with a level of precision that isn’t possible, that is beyond human.”
Then he dropped this: “Optimus is kind of like an infinite money glitch. Maybe there won’t even be money in the future, but might be measured in terms of wattage.”
Read that again. The richest legend alive just told you money becomes obsolete and your job disappears in the same breath.
The math is brutal: One Optimus costs $20,000. Replaces a $50,000 worker. Payback in 10 months. Tesla’s scaling to 1 million units in Fremont, 10 million in Texas. That’s 100 million robots by 2030, faster than iPhone adoption, except these don’t make calls, they take your livelihood.
Manufacturing footage just dropped. Real robots building real products in real factories. Not concept videos. Actual production.
@elonmusk showed assembly lines, showed the bots working, showed the future where human labor is a quaint memory.
Ten million jobs gone by 2028. Fifty million by 2030. Warehouses, delivery, construction, surgery. He specifically said surgery. Better than any human. Superhuman precision.
And while you are processing job loss, he casually mentions eliminating poverty through infinite robotic labor and replacing currency with energy economics.
This is not disruption. This is extinction level economic restructuring, and it’s not theoretical anymore. It’s operational. Scaling. Accelerating.
The last generation that trades time for money is alive right now. And they have no idea the clock just hit zero.
@elonmusk just ended the labor economy and announced it like a software update.
Wake up.
Optimus pilot production line is currently running in our Fremont Factory
Significantly larger Gen 3 production line coming in 2026
We're also testing in our factories & office spaces for real-time use case
Our goal is $20k COGS per robot at scale