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Elon Musk believes Swiss account, Bitcoin worthless, says ‘money just a database’, here's the future of actual economy

Billionaire and world's richest man Elon Musk believes that people mistake the economy for money. Speaking to Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Axel Springer, on the WELT Documentary channel in April 2022, just after he announced his decision to buy , the SpaceX and Tesla chief told the executive that money is “worthless” against the actual economy. “What is an economy?

Elon Musk believes Swiss account, Bitcoin worthless, says ‘money just a database’, here's the future of actual economy

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Key Highlights

  • People get confused, sometimes they think an economy is money.
  • (But), money is a database for exchange requisite services and for time-shifting the exchange of written services, that's it.
  • Money is a database, it doesn't have power in and of itself,” he said.
  • Explaining, “You can run the thought experiment: You're trapped, shipwrecked, on a remote island and you have a trillion dollars in a Swiss bank account, it's worthless.
  • You would rather have a can of soup.
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  1. Elon Musk believes Swiss account, Bitcoin worthless, says ‘money just a database’, here's the future of actual economy

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