Elon Musk just said what no economist will: the entire system is about to break and nothing can stop it.
— Dustin (@r0ck3t23) February 13, 2026
AI and robotics aren’t generating growth. They’re destroying the scarcity framework economics depends on.
Musk: “It will hit us like a supersonic tsunami.”
Production… pic.twitter.com/QVlZSfcCwV
Elon Musk just said what no economist will: the entire system is about to break and nothing can stop it.
AI and robotics aren’t generating growth. They’re destroying the scarcity framework economics depends on.
Musk: “It will hit us like a supersonic tsunami.”
Production compounds exponentially. Money supply grows linearly. Productivity sustaining permanent double-digit expansion. Numbers that sound impossible becoming baseline.
Not evolution. Replacement.
Musk: “Prices collapse hard.”
Not decline. Implosion. AI strips out labor costs, eliminates production errors, removes every inefficiency keeping goods expensive. Manufacturing anything approaches zero marginal cost while quality accelerates.
Governments will react on instinct. Print money. Inject stimulus. Playbook designed for scarcity economies colliding with abundance they have no framework to understand.
Musk: “GDP metrics are already meaningless.”
Every economic model assumes constrained labor, limited output, gradual improvement. AI doesn’t work within those boundaries. It deletes them as variables.
Production explodes. Central banks flood liquidity. Prices collapse regardless because physical abundance scales faster than any monetary intervention can match.
The production wave outruns policy response. Always.
Deflation signals crisis in every historical model. But this isn’t demand collapse. It’s supply going infinite.
The economy isn’t failing. It’s transforming beyond tools built to measure scarcity.
Power belongs to whoever controls the systems generating unlimited output. Money becomes secondary when production costs vanish. Policy makers are steering with instruments calibrated for limits that stopped existing.
This already started. And the people running things have zero answers for what happens when their entire profession becomes obsolete overnight.