In a long-form interview published on YouTube, Michael Saylor was asked whether Elon Musk is right that artificial intelligence (AI) and robots will make goods so abundant that money stops mattering. The host read Musk's own AI abundance lines aloud on camera, then turned to the man whose company holds more Bitcoin (BTCUSD) than any other public corporation. "He's half right," Michael Saylor answered. "I agree with part of what he says. That is, consumer goods, consumables, utilitarian goods will become abundant. But there are always going to be scarce, desirable goods that will not become abundant. And I think he overstates the case. Money will still be valuable."
The claim he was answering is one Musk has made more than once. Earlier this year, Musk said AI and robotics would trigger an age of abundance in which “everyone can have a penthouse if they want.” He has gone further than that, arguing that money itself becomes largely irrelevant once machines can produce whatever people need. The idea has been tested before. In July 2026, a Nobel Prize-winning economist dared Musk to pledge $1 trillion to charity if money really stopped mattering by 2036, and Musk replied that he would do something about it.
