Why Did Musk Say Money Could Disappear? At a big investment forum in November 2025, Elon Musk suggested that if artificial intelligence and robotics keep advancing, money could eventually stop being relevant. Sounds futuristic, right? But let’s break it down. The Real Reason Money Exists Economists have long explained that people use money for three main reasons: To buy and sell things (medium of exchange) To compare values (unit of account) To save for the future (store of value) But those are just surface-level functions. The deeper reason? Uncertainty. Uncertainty Is the Foundation of Money Humans can’t see the future. We don’t know what we’ll need tomorrow, next month, or next year. That uncertainty forces us to plan ahead, and…
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