If abundance is really coming, who should carry the cost of the years before it arrives?
Elon Musk says saving for the distant future is pointless because superintelligent abundance is on its way, yet the companies building that abundance are reporting record capital spending and negative free cash flow. When the payoff is years out and the bill is due now, who should absorb the gap, and what should an ordinary household actually do with that advice?
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In today’s episode of Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts (October 30, 2026), the hosts put Musk’s Thursday post next to the same day’s earnings: Amazon’s $77 billion quarter of capital spending and Alphabet’s worst trading day since its IPO. The episode frames this through the Abundance J-Curve, the idea that cheap later means expensive now, and asks what it costs Musk if he is wrong versus what it costs the listener who stops saving. It’s less about whether abundance arrives than about who is being asked to finance the wait, and on whose timeline. Listen to the full episode and tell us where you land: is skipping the retirement account a rational bet or a transfer of risk from the builders to the public?
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