Elon Musk has spent the last few weeks outlining a future with Optimus — one that will "eliminate" poverty, work, and require a universal income.

Elon Musk predicts Tesla’s Optimus robot will be a force for economic good — even if it ultimately eliminates much of the need for human labor.

While the humanoid robots are a production challenge and aren’t launching anytime soon, Tesla has demoed them handing out candy on Halloween, performing Kung Fu with Jared Leto, and dancing onstage at its recent shareholder meeting.

But Musk says he has an even bigger vision for the robots; he wants them to transform the economy.

“People often talk about eliminating poverty, giving everyone amazing medical care,” Musk said at the Thursday shareholder event. “There’s actually only one way to do that, and that’s with the Optimus robot.”

Musk later doubled down: “Optimus will actually eliminate poverty.”

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    18 days ago

    I remember seeing someone mentioning a comic where Megatron rose to power during some kind of slave revolt. I wish I could remember what it was called because it seemed cool af

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      28·
      18 days ago

      It is one of the modern interpretations of how the Cybertronian Civil War broke out, so it is in a couple of things

      But yeah, he and a bunch of other Cybertronians were oppressed by a rigid caste system. He was a pit fighter who took on the name Megatron because it’s two letters away from their version of Satan and wanted to freak out the ruling classes.

      Optimus Prime, before he became a prime and was only lowly archivist Orion Pax, befriended Megatron and pleaded his case to the High Council

      The High Council took his words to heart, granted Orion the station of Prime and the new name of Optimus, and offered to re-examine the caste system

      Unfortunately, this did little to actually alleviate the issues Megatron was willing to go to war over and long story short, Cyberton is ruined in the fighting, everyone ends up on Earth looking for gas, grass, and ass

    • Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      7·
      18 days ago

      Sound familiar?

      Cyclonus to Tailgate, IDW Transformers comics, More Than Meets The Eye #3 (March 2012)

      The IDW continuity gives Megs and the 'cons a lot more depth and relatability, but definitely resorts to some puppy kicking to avoid making them “too” relatable.