{"id":408764,"date":"2026-01-15T12:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/408764\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T12:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:53:18","slug":"trillionaire-steals-all-our-social-security-info-says-dont-squirrel-away-for-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/408764\/","title":{"rendered":"Trillionaire steals all our Social Security info, says &#8216;Don&#8217;t squirrel away&#8217; for retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/why-elon-musk-says-saving-182910836.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yahoo News reports that Elon Musk<\/a> \u2014\u00a0the guy who took a sledgehammer to the Social Security Administration backend and stole all of our information \u2014\u00a0now says that it\u2019s pointless to \u201csquirrel away\u201d for retirement because money will be worthless in 10 to\u00a020 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Personally (and punnily),\u00a0I think you gotta be nuts to listen to a soon-to-be trillionaire tell you not to \u201csquirrel away\u201d any more for savings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But beyond that, I think he makes a great case for taxing all the billionaires out of existence and putting that money toward things that we all need\u2026\u00a0things like housing for all, education for all, healthcare for all, good infrastructure and a jobs guarantee, and public ownership of these magical technologies that are going to make money irrelevant for everyone but Elon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s either that or face the reality that what he\u2019s actually talking about is a real-life endgame of Monopoly where he\u2019ll own all the properties and have all the money.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Find my video commentary on this on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GVasL6aSc6E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/troynmiller.bsky.social\/post\/3mcdj4c4i7k2z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BlueSky<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTdyuVSiiyG\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yahoo News reports that Elon Musk \u2014\u00a0the guy who took a sledgehammer to the Social Security Administration backend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[28,147,530],"class_list":{"0":"post-408764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-personal-finance","10":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}