SpaceX IPO and Elon saying ‘Saving for retirement will be irrelevant in the future’. Connected?

Just occurred to me- are these two events related? Earlier this year, Elon Musk was reported saying “Don’t worry about squirreling money away for retirement in 10 or 20 years,” on the Moonshots with Peter Diamandis podcast in January. “It won’t matter. This was in the context of some ‘AI revolution that would provide basic needs to Americans’. However, it’s coupled with a timely IPO that has a high chance of determining our retirement savings anyways.. Five months after that statement, SpaceX is