{"id":364604,"date":"2026-01-11T15:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T15:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/364604\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T15:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T15:08:11","slug":"why-elon-musk-believes-saving-for-retirement-will-be-irrelevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/364604\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Elon Musk Believes Saving For Retirement Will Be Irrelevant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Elon Musk believes that saving for retirement will be irrelevant in the future to come, as a &#8220;high universal income&#8221; would ensure abundant availability of resources for all classes of the population.<\/p>\n<p>The Tesla and SpaceX owner&#8217;s remarks came during the &#8216;Moonshots with Peter Diamandis&#8217; podcast, where he claimed that people should not worry about saving their wealth for a retirement that may be 10 to 20 years from now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t worry about squirreling money away for retirement in 10 or 20 years&#8230; If any of the things that we&#8217;ve said are true, saving for retirement will be irrelevant,&#8221; Musk said.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, currently the world&#8217;s richest man, believes that the advances in artificial intelligence, robotics and energy would super-charge productivity, resulting in &#8220;abundance&#8221; of resources. There will be &#8220;universal high income&#8221; granted to all, he predicted.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone will be free to have &#8220;whatever stuff they want&#8221;, ranging from &#8220;better medical care&#8221; to learning anything &#8220;for free&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billionaire Elon Musk believes that saving for retirement will be irrelevant in the future to come, as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4176,4174,4175,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-364604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-personal-finance","11":"tag-personalfinance","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}