It’s a future that many billionaires, including Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos are not just embracing but also enabling through their innovation: The most secure—and lucrative—jobs of tomorrow may not be on Earth at all.
These jobs will not only enable Gen Alpha graduates to reel in sky-high salaries, but they’ll also be “feeling so bad for you and I that we had to do this really boring, old work and everything is just better.”
And while his predictions are bold, AI’s rapid development is multiplying innovation and will help solve some of society’s biggest problems, including, he implies, how to sustain life in space.
As a 61-year-old, that at least indicates space travel will be a mainstream reality in his lifetime. The company’s mission is focused on “a future where millions of people will live and work in space with a single-minded purpose: to restore and sustain Earth.”
Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates has a starkly different view when it comes to investing in traveling to other planets.
“You can buy measles vaccines and save lives for a thousand dollars per life saved,” he said. “It just kind of grounds you. Don’t go to Mars.”
