My comment to Elon’s post on X
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1990056932888187086
Elon, poverty isn’t a technical glitch — it’s a psychological wound.
You can’t eliminate it with robots while ignoring the emotional forces that create it.
History shows that when the powerful promise to “end poverty,” what often follows is not liberation but exclusion: deciding who deserves abundance and who is deemed disposable.
We already see AI-enabled precision used against the most vulnerable — especially immigrants of color — under the guise of “efficiency” and “safety.”
That’s not ending poverty.
That’s reshaping society around the fears and unresolved trauma of the people in charge.
Real poverty ends when people stop reenacting their childhood wounds on entire populations.
When power stops projecting its own unlived pain onto the weakest.
When human dignity stops depending on who fits someone’s idealized version of “acceptable.”
Robots can perform surgery.
But they cannot heal the emotional blindness that created inequality in the first place.
Until we address that truth, “ending poverty” will just mean choosing who gets to survive the future — and who doesn’t.
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