Elon Musk Explains What Money REALLY Is | #elonmusk #finance #tesla #spacex #wealth #shorts

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]People get [music] confused. They sometimes they think an economy is money. Money is a database for uh exchange [music] of goods and services and for time shifting the exchange of goods and services. That's It's a Money is a database. Money does not have power in and of itself.

[00:00:15]Um like you can run the thought experiment of you're you're trapped on a you know, a remote [music] island a shipwrecked on an island um and you've got a trillion dollars in a Swiss [music] bank account.

[00:00:26]It's worthless. You'd rather have a can of soup.

[00:00:29]So, you know, with all the Bitcoin in the world, you're still going to starve.

[00:00:33]>> [laughter] >> So, uh the actual economy is goods and services.