Elon Musk's age of abundance is an AI pipe dream soaked in snake oil, and I've about had it
THE SO WHAT
Hyperbolic promises of a money- and work-free AI utopia within five years raise expectations your teams cannot and should not be planning against. Anchor your AI strategy on concrete 6–24 month capability curves and unit economics — not narrative cycles around ‘abundance’ that can whipsaw employee morale and stakeholder pressure.
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