Michael Saylor Says Don’t Bother Working Hard: Is The Crypto Billionaire’s Take Controversial Or Simply Common Sense In Today’s Era

Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ:MSTR) co-founder Michael Saylor recently expressed a view on the diminishing value of hard work amid the rise of artificial intelligence.

AI Will Make Hard Work Obsolete?

During the Peter McCormack show dated April 30, Saylor suggested that the traditional virtues of hard work and talent are becoming less valuable in a world increasingly dominated by AI and automation. 

“What you don’t want to do today is you don’t really want to make money by being talented and working hard,” he said. “That sounds pretty provocative, but the problem is the robots are going to work hard. The cars are
going to drive themselves.”

He then used a Shakespearean sonnet to make his point, noting that an AI trained upon it would produce equivalents as good as Shakespeare in his prime.”

Saylor said the key takeaway is that human capital is getting “demonetized.”