""Everyone will have access to medical care that is better than what the President receives right now," Musk said on the podcast Moonshots with Peter Diamandis. "Right now there's a shortage of doctors and great surgeons. It takes a super long time to learn to be a good doctor, and even then, the knowledge is constantly evolving. Doctors have limited time. They make mistakes.""
""Don't worry about squirreling money away for retirement in like 10 or 20 years. It won't matter," Musk said. Essentially, if robots can build houses, grow food, manufacture goods, and even provide services like health care and education at a near-zero cost then wages stop being the mechanism that determines who gets what. Money (and with it savings and retirement pots) become unimportant. "You won't need to save for retirement," he added. "If any of the things that we've said are true, saving for retirement will be irrelevant.""
A three-year timeline is forecast for robots to perform surgical roles and outnumber surgeons in hospitals and practices. Current shortages of doctors and surgeons, long training periods, constantly evolving medical knowledge, limited clinical time, and human error motivate automation. Tesla Optimus robots are proposed as the surgical solution despite previous production hiccups and missed ambitious targets. Widespread robot-driven automation in construction, agriculture, manufacturing, health care, and education at near-zero marginal cost would disrupt wage-based distribution of goods and services. In that scenario, retirement savings and traditional retirement funds become irrelevant. Some projections anticipate dramatically extended human lifespans.
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