20 Years Later: Money Disappears — Future Value

Published on January 16, 2026

Introduction

This article summarizes a long interview and analysis about how value, energy and technology may reshape wealth over the next two decades.

Key Takeaways

Wealth will increasingly track access to energy and large-scale computing resources.
Create net value (produce order) rather than redistributing — focus on durable infrastructure.
Invest in energy, power systems, and communication resilience (e.g., Starlink-like networks).

Excerpt: Intro

An interview-based analysis argues that future wealth will correlate strongly with access to energy and large-scale computing resources. It recommends creating durable value by building infrastructure and improving energy efficiency.

Excerpt: Details

The piece connects AI-driven labor substitution with rising power demand, and highlights transmission and storage as key bottlenecks. It outlines Starlink-like networking and solar infrastructure as strategic assets.

Excerpt: Conclusion

Focus on producing new order—energy, compute, and resilient communications will define value in the coming decades.

Full Transcript

If today in 2025, I tell you that you are playing with five and even 996 currency that you are trying hard to earn In the near future, it may become a waste. Do you believe it? I am not selling anxiety or talking about financial crisis I am in the smartest brain on the planet, Elon Musk, in a recent in-depth interview The ultimate prediction for the next 20 years In this long conversation of hours, Musk is almost a god In addition to the great gap that our generation is going to face, he talked about the consumption of currency Talked about the position of energy, talked about the game between carbon and life Many people look at this interview and only see how many cars Tesla wants to sell or what price Twitter is at Too shallow Today I spent a week to break down this 10,000-word interview one after another Combine with Musk's business layout to create a future survival map for you This period of content is extremely dense If you want to understand the future 20 years of wealth I want to know what professional your children should learn I even want to know where the middle of human civilization is Please listen to the last Believe me, this may be the most brain-worn and the most soberest sharing you have heard this year Let's first solve the most important problem for everyone What is wealth? Why can some people make money even if they are not smart Why is the vast majority of people struggling at the bottom In the interview, Musk gave an even counter-intuitive answer He didn't talk about wealth, he didn't talk about the leverage, but he talked about the harm in physics Musk has only one suggestion for young entrepreneurs Don't try to be a leader and try to be a useful person It sounds like a chicken soup, right? But you listen carefully to the explanation behind him You will find that this is actually the second law of thermodynamics in economics Musk proposed a concept called supply-demand He said that you must ensure that the value you create is greater than the resources you take from society In physics, the natural tendency of the universe is to increase That is, from the continuous to the continuous, from the complex to destruction Whether it's building a car or writing a code Even making a meal is essentially fighting against the increase in business You invest in energy and arrange the continuous elements into a continuous structure The essence of making money is the reward for fighting against the increase in business The vast majority of people do not make a lot of money because they are the bearer of the business or the shareholder For example, you do office politics in the company You do simple buying and selling in the market You profit from redistributing assets through legal litigation In Musk's view, these behaviors may make you profit personally But for the entire human system, there is no new order You are cutting cake, not making cakes Musk's reason for becoming the world's richest It is because his thinking pattern is absolutely commercialized PayPal solved the chaos of payment Tesla solved the chaos of energy use SpaceX solved the risks of humans being trapped in the single planet Which is the biggest indifference So when you feel confused, anxious and can't make money Stop asking yourself a cruel question What I'm doing today is whether it's making order or consuming energy If your input is greater than the output First of all, you are the burden of society No matter how hard you try, the social system will eventually replace you Only when your creation is greater than the gain Wealth will remain in you like physical law If we were talking about personal cultivation So next we are going to talk about the trend of the times Musk threw out a prediction that made Wall Street shake The traditional monetary system is failing The future hard goods are only two, power and energy Why? Because the emergence of artificial intelligence and humanoid robots Completely pierced the traditional economic model Traditional economics is based on the lack of labor Because people are not enough So people's time is valuable So we have to pay To exchange people's labor with currency But Musk in this interview Very quietly described a scene Kind of the mass production of robots When a robot only costs 20,000 dollars But can work non-stop for 24 hours every day Not only can you move bricks, you can also do experiments Write codes, even bring children Excuse me, is labor still lacking? No, labor will become like air When labor has unlimited supply The cost of goods and services will be unlimited At this time, what is the bottleneck that limits human civilization? Not human anymore, but power Musk mentioned a very specific detail in the interview He said that the current bottleneck is the chip The bottleneck after a year is the pressure changer Two years later, the bottleneck is the power supply Everyone pays attention to this time table The size of the AI model is turned over every six months The demand for power is an index explosion Musk even jokes We look for the transformer all over the world As if the transformer is a drug This is not only a section This is the investment password In the next 20 years, whoever has the power Who has the right to live The current dollar is a per capita oil In the future, when the currency will directly per capita 1000 watts You have the bank's bank account now If you don't convert it into assets In front of the AI big bank The purchasing power will quickly shrink But if you have a solar power station If you have the most efficient power bank If you have the transformer technology You are the future bank head This is also why Tesla is crazy about designing solar and solar businesses Musk is not selling cars He is designing the future world's energy currency development system So for ordinary people You should also say Even if you can't afford Tesla stocks You should also realize All industries related to energy acquisition and energy efficiency Is the real peak of the next 20 years We used to rob the ground We need to grab the capacity of the electric network After talking about materials and energy Let's look at the transmission In this interview There is one that is easy to be ignored But the technical content is very high It's about Starlink star chain Many people think that star chain is just a network for the village Or provide Wi-Fi to the plane Wrong, wrong, wrong Musk accidentally leaked a celestial opportunity in the interview Star chain is building the second level of the Earth's nervous system He mentioned a technical detail Light chain Most of the current Internet data is transmitted via seabed The transmission speed of light in the glass fiber Can only reach about 70% of the vacuum light speed And the seabed is very fragile It also has to go around the mainland The path is very long But the satellite of star chain is flying in the vacuum Between the satellite and the satellite Direct communication through the laser What does this mean It means that the speed of data transmission on the star chain Is the limit speed allowed by physics Light speed And it is a straight transmission No need to go around Musk said We have put the whole world A whole state through the light chain Even if the light on the ground is cut off Even if there is a war Earthquake Seabed The network of star chains is still perfect in space This is not just business This is the status of civilization Musk on the next chess He wants to take the information flow of human civilization From the fragile surface of the planet Increase to a safer ground track This is like installing a cloud brain for the earth This also explains why in many geopolitical crises Starlink has become an unremarkable force Because it is not dependent on any country's ground infrastructure It is a super power infrastructure When you are still struggling with your family When you are still struggling with your family When you are still struggling with your family Musk has turned the Internet into a sky net This is why I said Look at Musk's interview You have to raise your perspective to the level above the screen After talking about material and transmission We have to talk about the most sensitive topic Consciousness The interviewer asked Musk Why do you spend $440 billion Buy that Twitter that doesn't make money Musk's answer is very direct Even a bit sad He said To prevent the awakening of the brain virus to destroy civilization This part of the content is very controversial But we need to listen to his logic Musk thinks The technology circle of Mount Jiujin Is controlled by a kind of extreme deceptive mind This kind of thinking is apparently tolerant It's actually extremely tolerant He can't tolerate any opposed voices If this kind of thinking controls the global public square Humans will lose their ability to control And eventually go to totalitarianism and stop He said Twitter was like a reply room for the leftists If you stand on the far left Then the middle class looks like the far right He bought X not to make money But to adjust the freedom of speech To the middle He wants X to become a global city square Let the leftist, rightist, radicalist, conservative Can speak within the legal scope This actually shows the most core point in Musk's worldview Multimedia is the premise of survival Life diversity guarantees that species do not die Thought diversity guarantees that civilization will not deteriorate If the whole human race has only one voice No matter how correct this voice sounds That's not far from the collapse of civilization So when you see Musk on X Send some seeming absurd pictures Or when you're with people Don't treat him like a lunatic He's actually using an extreme way Test the boundary of this system He's trying to preserve the life of human thought In the second half of the interview Because the interviewer is Indian They talked about a very practical topic People and immigrants Musk does not have to praise the Indian people For his contribution to the United States He said The reason why the United States is strong It's because he attracted the smartest person in the world If you want to get a high-tech company You have to go get those The world's most powerful 0.01% brain Here Musk talked about his elite immigrants He supports immigrants But it supports high-skilled High IQ High level of legal immigration This actually gives us on the screen Especially students and people who work Brought up a line In the era of AI Ordinary brain workers will be eliminated first The boundary still exists But for top talents The boundary is disappearing Future world It is no longer the Americans to the Chinese Or Indians to the Europeans But to those who can control AI The people who replace AI Musk mentioned What does he value most during the interview Not academic Not the lead in all kinds of lights But What problems have you solved He will look at your eyes Let you talk about the hardest question And you solve every detail of it If you are the one who really solves the problem You will not forget the details If you are a passionate person You will show up in two minutes So In this age of learning Solving complex problems The ability to become your only support The end of the content I want to go back to Musk In the interview I mentioned a very interesting metaphor He said Life is like a big role-playing game If you left the game If you do nothing You can have everything This game will soon become boring and transparent The reason why humans feel that living is meaningful Is because we have to overcome difficulties We have to explore the unknown We have to go to the border of the expansion of the world Why is Musk so poor He is already the richest man in the world He can buy a He said He said at the end of the interview I just want to know What's going on in this universe Why are we here Friends Maybe we can't become Musk But after listening to this interview At least we can Open your world a little bit The first Don't be the conqueror To create value To fight against the increase in business This is the only physical law of the rich The second Pay attention to energy and computing This is the second increase in the future The third Maintain the opposite weakness Like Starlink Establish your own skill backup Don't rely on the single path The fourth Defend the truth In this world full of math and lies In the world Stay independent Don't be infected by the virus Twenty years later When AI took over all the heavy work When energy is no longer scarce I hope you at that time Still have curiosity Still playing this game called life And play very happy Finally, I want to ask you a question If in the future Work is no longer for survival What will you choose to do to spend your life Welcome to leave your answer in the comment area See you next time