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Elizabeth Knight Business columnist October 23, 2025 — 3.58pm

Listening to Elon Musk’s performance during his quarterly profit call is akin to watching a street hustler playing a pea and thimble trick. He wants your attention to be diverted from the company’s dire profit performance from making electric cars and towards his plans to populate the world with humanoid robots.

So ambitious are his aspirations – which (I kid you not) include putting an end to world poverty, global democratisation of health care and the creation of his own army of robots to achieve these lofty goals – that it’s difficult to focus on the real world and the current state of Tesla.

The road to ending world poverty runs parallel with a plan hatched by Musk and his bo

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