
So you’ve worked your way up the ladder to a comfortable six-figure salary. Or perhaps you’ve squirreled away hundreds of thousands in cash in the bank—or invested in stocks and retirement accounts. According to Elon Musk, none of that may matter for very long.
The world’s richest person believes money itself is on borrowed time. In a future workforce dominated by artificial intelligence and robotics, Musk says salaries will become nonexistent, and therefore, cash will fade into irrelevance.