How many of you realize that it is the decentralization of drone guidance and missile guidance technology that has stripped away America's naval hegemony that allowed it to project power in an uncontested manner in order to force the nations of the world to use the U.S. dollar for trade?
Now that drone and missile tech is widespread, decentralized and inexpensive, the entire U.S. naval posture is obsolete, and a country like Yemen can command an entire sea (and, effectively, the Suez Canal).
Distributed technology, in other words, has made the dollar's kinetic enforcement arm obsolete. And with that, the dollar will be increasingly abandoned in world trade.
Elon promises a "Universal High Income" for everyone. Let's suppose that means $10K per month for 100 million Americans.
Here's the math:
100 million people × $10,000/month × 12 months = $12 trillion per year.
To put that in context, total federal spending in fiscal year 2024 was roughly $6.75 trillion, and total federal revenue was about $4.9 trillion. So this single program would cost nearly twice the entire existing federal budget and about 2.5× all federal tax revenue. It would roughly triple total government spending overnight.
U.S. GDP is roughly $29 trillion. A $12 trillion UBI program would equal about 41% of total GDP -- being directed as cash transfers to a subset of the population. For comparison, all current federal transfer payments (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, veterans' benefits, etc.) combined run around $4-5 trillion.
The M2 money supply (cash, checking deposits, savings, money market funds) sits at roughly $21-22 trillion. If the program were funded by money creation rather than taxes, injecting $12 trillion per year would expand M2 by roughly 55% in the first year alone. Even if a portion were funded through taxation (which just redistributes existing money), the sheer scale makes it nearly impossible to fund without massive monetary expansion.
The inflationary pressure would be enormous, for a few reinforcing reasons:
First, demand-side shock -- putting $10,000/month into 100 million hands would massively increase consumer spending, but the economy's productive capacity (factories, housing, workers, supply chains) can't scale anywhere near that fast. When far more dollars chase roughly the same quantity of goods, prices spike.
Second, labor supply contraction -- $120,000/year tax-free would exceed the median U.S. household income (~$80,000). Many workers would reduce hours or exit the workforce entirely, shrinking the supply side at the exact moment demand is surging. That's a double squeeze on prices.
Third, velocity effects -- lower-income recipients tend to spend transfer income quickly, so the velocity of money would increase, amplifying the inflationary effect beyond what the raw money supply numbers suggest.
A rough (and conservative) estimate: mainstream quantity-theory-of-money reasoning would suggest that a 55% expansion in money supply, combined with rising velocity and falling output, could produce annual inflation well into the double digits -- plausibly 30-50%+ in the first year or two, potentially accelerating into a hyperinflationary spiral if sustained. Historical parallels (Weimar Germany, Zimbabwe, Venezuela) all involved governments printing money at scales far smaller relative to GDP, and still produced catastrophic inflation.
So no, Elon doesn't understand economics. And yes, a "Universal High Income" would quickly lead to hyperinflation and currency collapsing, thrusting almost everyone into extreme poverty.
Let's be blunt: the replacement of human labor and cognition is the stated goal, not an unfortunate side effect. The architects behind AI systems are fully aware these technologies will eventually replace human labor across a wide range of tasks. We're already seeing early signs, with projections that 70-80% of physical labor and half of white-collar jobs will vanish in the years ahead. From my perspective, this isn't about efficiency; it's about power. Elon Musk himself, making his debut at the World Economic Forum, spoke of a future with "more robots than people". The technocratic vision is clear: a world where human cognitive labor holds negative value.
The consequence is a 'surplus humanity' -- billions with no economic purpose in the eyes of the elite. This is not a side effect; it's the core of the plan. As I've stated in my own reports, within a decade, approximately half of the global population -- around 4 billion people -- will become obsolete due to automation. What happens to a person stripped of their ability to contribute, to provide, to find dignity in work? Mass despair is the inevitable result, and that despair is not a bug in the system -- it's a feature. A broken, dependent population is far less likely to resist. It's a recipe for engineered social breakdown, paving the way for the 'solutions' the elite are already rolling out.
Read the full article here:
The Engineered Collapse of Work and Freedom: My Case Against the Coming AI Dystopia and UBI Financial Enslavement
https://www.naturalnews.com/2026-04-17-the-engineered-collapse-of-work-and-freedom.html
