Sanders says Musk’s AI will take millions of jobs
By Paul Bean
Billionaire Elon Musk and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) exchanged words on X earlier this week on their divisions on technological progress in AI, job displacement, and the role of government in the new economy.
The back-and forth between Sanders and Musk began on December 17 when Musk posted: “The takers like Bernie will eventually follow the makers, but they’re cowards too and lack any sense of adventure, so they will wait until it is safe.”
This was in response to an earlier post made by Sanders where he announced that he was “pushing for a moratorium on the construction of data centers that are powering the unregulated sprint to develop & deploy AI. The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.”
Musk’s remark referenced a response to Bernie’s post from user @Andercot about the challenges of building in space versus navigating Earth’s current bureaucratic hurdles, framing “makers” as bold pioneers willing to take risks, while criticizing “takers,” including figures like Sanders, as followers who will wait for safety and redistribution over adventure and creation.
Sanders quickly responded by quoting Musk’s post: “Yes, Elon. I do lack ‘any sense of adventure’ when that ‘adventure’ will, as you have made clear, force tens of millions of workers out of their jobs. The goal of AI and robotics must be to improve life for all people, not just to make you and your fellow oligarchs even richer.”
Musk has not directly replied to Sanders since.
Late last night (12/18), Sanders posted a video directly addressing Elon Musk, sarcastically praising the billionaire’s vision of an AI-driven future while raising pointed questions about the path to “utopia” amid potential mass job displacement.
The post quotes a months-old statement from Musk, dated August 2025: “There will be universal high income (not merely basic income). Everyone will have the best medical care, food, home, transport and everything else. Sustainable abundance.”
In the video, Sanders challenges Musk on his concerns about the interim period, asking how unemployed workers will afford essentials like housing, food, and healthcare while waiting for abundance.
“I look forward to hearing about how you and your other oligarch friends are going to provide working people with the magnificent life that you promise,” Sanders says.
Just days before Sanders’ latest video, Musk doubled down on his utopian vision by responding to discussions about new “Trump Accounts” for newborns, stating that such savings initiatives are unnecessary.
He wrote on X: “It is certainly a nice gesture of the Dells, but there will be no poverty in the future and so no need to save money. There will be universal high income.”
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Not only can Bernie be classified as a taker, but also a leach on society among other descriptions of a professional grifting politician.
The is truth is exemplified by the fact that in his early twenties he slept on people’s couches as the story goes.
Bernie Sanders isn’t just a ‘taker’, or, in Atlas Shrugged parlance, a ‘looter’, … Sanders is a disingenuous snake oil salesman. Everything he does, from promoting an ever increasing minimum wage to his outrageous claim that he is better suited to invest the capital created by billionaires like Elon Musk than they are, Sanders diminishes the standard of living for the middle- and lower-income folks he says he is helping, … all while padding his own wallet.
Of course – the same goes for our other esteemed politicians, Balint and Welch.
Not a fan of either of these guys, but Bernie is right at least (and though he doesn’t realize exactly why he’s right) to push for a moratorium on data center construction. The Stargate project Trump announced on day one so we can “keep up with China” is not to make your web browsing experience better; it’s a mass-surveillance infrastructure that will enable putting everyone on a blockchain with the coming digital ID (which the UK has just implemented). Unless you want to be tracked and traced in absolutely everything you do, you might want to push back as well.
The technocrats at the World Economic Forum (WEF) and United Nations and various stakeholders have been planning this for years. Read The Age of AI and our Human Future written by Henry Kissenger (a friend and business partner of Klaus Schwab, WEF), Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher published in 2021. The book basically states that to be competitive with China, America needs to adopt the same technology and AI systems. Then go read The Fourth Industrial Revolution, The Global Race to Reinvent the State by John Micklethwait (the Economist) and Adrian Woodbridge published in 2015. This book proposed taking benefit program money from “greedy Babby Boomers” and giving it to people who really need it. Wait, didn’t that actually happen. It also references the inequities tied to capitalism, meaning unequal outcomes, which are now deemed as racist. Hense, the introducuvtion of DEI by the United Nations. The race is on because the Trump Administration will not program the technology you referenced based on DEI, where people of different demographics are subject to a two tiered justice system. The Administration is setting up a system based on a single source of truth, meaning laws applied to everyone equally. JD Vance and Elon Musk stated this explicitly at the Munich Security Council meeting. I actually got to attend a WEF global webinar for business leaders, the speaker discussed the challenges associated with programming the digital surveillance system to take into account skin color.
From today’s National Review:
“The Bernie Sanders Plan to Sabotage the Future”
“We are in the equivalent of a space race, and the Vermont socialist is talking about cutting off our supply of rocket fuel.”
“Most people welcome economic growth, but Bernie Sanders hates it. As they say, there’s no accounting for taste.
“The Vermont socialist has come out against data centers, the mass computing facilities essential to the development of artificial intelligence
“There are all sorts of NIMBY-type reasons for local residents to oppose data centers — they use a lot of energy and water, they are noisy and unsightly — but Sanders is against them on principle.
“If he can stop the creation of new data centers, he can squeeze AI research to a standstill and supposedly save American jobs and give Congress more time to regulate the new industry.
“When Donald Trump floated the idea of a Muslim ban during his 2016 presidential campaign, he said we needed a moratorium “until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.”
“In a nutshell, that’s the Sanders position on AI.
“This might be the most poisonously stupid idea of the year.
“The sheer destructiveness of it is on par, say, with blocking the creation of new generators after Thomas Edison set up the Pearl Street Station in 1882 on grounds that we didn’t fully understand how electrification would affect cities. Or prohibiting the mining of coal in Britain at the outset of the Industrial Revolution because the coming changes were too hard to fathom.
“The comparison with the Industrial Revolution is apt. The benefits to Britain of leading the way were vast, in terms of economic growth, trade, the welfare of its people, and national power.…”
It never ceases to amaze me when Bernard Sanders, himself a millionaire with multiple homes, demonizes people for being wealthy. He knows he’s wealthy. We know he’s wealthy. Who is he kidding? How can anyone take anything this grifting man says seriously?
Surely you heard Boinie say “My wife wrote a book . If you want to be a millionaire, write a book !” So I guess that not only does the money from “his wife’s” book do nothing to enrich hlm but maybe, they, being such entrepreneurial philanthropists with such an altruistic desire to enrich others, are spreading their(her) wealth amongst the less fortunate. Right Senator ?
So instead of Patrick, she caused a college to financially crash, while possibly enriching herself and the investigation was swept under the rug by Biden Admin !
Jane accepted a 6 figure advance for a book deal 7 years ago but has not produced
a book yet? Must be Jane has nothing to write about. Senators can get book deal
advances whereas congressmen can only get royalties. Bernie used $850,000 of campaign donations to buy his own books in order to jack up sales. Nothing new
here folks Elon is right. When will Vermonters wake up and admit Sanders are scammers