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Is the economy real?
As part of his usual practice of posting confusing and provocative posts on social media about money, cryptocurrencies, the economy and virtually everything else, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has now announced his views on money – namely that it is not real. .
“Goods and services are the real economy, any form of money is just reporting them,” Musk tweeted Saturday.
So money is fiction?
The founder of SpaceX seems to suggest that money only works to facilitate the exchange of goods and services in our commercial societies, which virtually any elementary student could tell you, with the same confidence that Musk did now.
But what is different about Elon Musk’s case is, in fact, the irony of the fact that he is one of the richest people in the world, with assets valued at more than three times the GDP of countries like ours. So the account of this infinitely banal fact by a man like Elon is, in fact, quite a symbolic act in itself. However, the irony becomes even greater when we remember that Musk is widely known for investing heavily in cryptocurrency. He is even behind some of the biggest jumps and falls in the prices of a number of cryptocurrencies – from bitcoin to the “joking cryptocurrency Dogecoin.
Of course, the billionaire recently broke with the most conventional cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, denouncing them as old-school players, but there is still serious evidence that he believes in the future of cryptocurrencies and invests in them.
After considering this, the picture looks different. Obviously, money is not just “reporting” the market value of goods and services. They are also a class of assets in which one can invest също and also manipulate a post on social networks.
Do you feel confused?
You are not alone. After all, Musk is one of the most unpredictable people, often hiding his philosophical desires. In addition to his post, Musk changed his profile picture to an all-black image.
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