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Looking ahead, figures like Elon Musk exemplify how space colonization and autonomous resource extraction could become avenues for unprecedented wealth accumulation. Elon’s ventures into space mining or monopolizing AI-driven industries could turn him into the world’s first trillionaire, running a one-person empire of machines—automating industries and capturing profits on a cosmic scale.
This scenario, far from being science fiction, reflects the stark reality that AI and automation could centralize ownership entirely, pushing the value of human labor towards zero. The chief risk is the concentration of power in the hands of a few, leading to a future worse than dystopian fiction—where societal control is absolute, and human agency is diminished or rendered irrelevant.