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Can Elon Musk be right about both of these at the same time?

• Collapsing birth rates are the biggest threat to civilisation
• AI + humanoid robots will make almost all human jobs obsolete in the next 10–20 years

If robots do all the work… why is he Elon Musk asking the world to have more babies? And what does this paradox mean for the future of corporations and global trade?

- Elon Musk’s births and robot paradox 

- Global fertility collapse – the shocking numbers 

- Musk’s comments at the 2025 Saudi Investment Forum: “Work will be optional… money may become irrelevant”

- Universal High Income and the real future problem 

- Mr Nelson’s 1980s prediction vs today’s self-checkout hell

- Ronald Coase, zero transaction costs, and the coming death of the corporation 

- Electronic personhood for robots – the 2017 EU Parliament resolution 

- R2-D2

- Could droids get bank accounts and become consumers? 

- Intra-firm trade and the blockchain future 

- The Tesla that does 0-100 mph in 2 seconds when the speed limit is 55 

- What every company must do before the AI asteroid hits (McKinsey 2025) 

- Kodak, the East India Company… and the morning the multinational dies

Elon Musk | AI | Robotics | Optimus | Birth Rate Crisis | Fertility Collapse | Future of Work | Global Trade | Universal Basic Income | Transaction Costs | Corporate Death | Demographics | Automation | Tesla | Trade Policy | Geopolitics

Hosted by Justin Hayden Miller – global trade advisor & strategist, former partner at a top-tier European law firm and former senior leader in Big-4 international trade and tax practices.

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