Elon Musk Says 'If You're Stranded On A Desert Island With $1 Trillion, It's Not Useful' — Money Is Just An 'Information System For Labor Allocation'

Money talks. According to Elon Musk, it also goes silent the second there's no one left to listen. Speaking on the "People by WTF" podcast with host Nikhil Kamath in November, the Tesla CEO peeled back the idea of wealth to something far less flashy. Strip away the markets, the people, the systems, and what's left is not power. It's a tool. And without a system to plug into, that tool does nothing. Musk put it simply: "It's just an information system for labor allocation." Then came the line tha