Musk Advocates for State Ownership of AI Giants, Musk Publicly Dissents: Distribute Money Directly to the People, the Future Is Hyper-Deflation

According to Sentinel Beating monitoring, U.S. Vice President JD Vance stated in an interview with CEO Journal that Trump supports the U.S. establishing a sovereign wealth fund and holds stakes in several leading AI giants. Vance believes that big-tech companies must not be allowed to grow into uncontrolled trillion-dollar monopolies, or else the rich will get richer while the poor become serfs. He advocates for state ownership and the introduction of a "pre-distribution" mechanism such as union collective bargaining, allowing workers to have a seat at the decision-making table, directly sharing in the technological dividends during the initial distribution, to prevent the poor from becoming mere dependents of the rich through charity, rather than relying on traditional tax redistribution.

In response, Musk (Elon Musk) took a different stance on the X platform, proposing an alternative to government equity investment, suggesting direct cash transfers from the Treasury to the public. Musk explained that with AI and robotics technology driving productivity, the output of goods and services will outpace the money supply growth, and direct cash transfers will not lead to inflation; instead, humanity will need to fight against severe deflation in the future.

The core disagreement between the two lies in the approach to wealth inequality: Vance leans towards state ownership and labor negotiation intervention on the production side to prevent asset gains from being monopolized by a few; Musk, on the other hand, favors direct intervention at the monetary policy level, opposing state intervention in ownership of the means of production, and advocates for using technological abundance to provide a consumer-oriented cash safety net.