Musk predicts money will become irrelevant, replaced by 'wattage and tonnage'
Polymarket · x · 2026-10-21
Polymarket relayed Elon Musk's latest prediction that money will eventually become irrelevant, with future value measured in energy and mass output—"wattage and tonnage"—continuing his long-running thesis about a post-currency economy.
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