Retirement is a Fading Dream
I was speaking with my younger attorney the other day and he was remarking how the current baby boomer generation (those
born just after World War ll) is the last of a group that had it really good. He went on to say they didn’t realize that they had to really save for retirement and plan ahead. He was implying that they thought the dance would go on forever. He sees them now as clients who don’t have enough in retirement and never thought that much about living this long. They had all the opportunities not available to the younger generation and somehow squandered their moment in the sun.
Retirement was always a man-made construct. It is artificial and created as an economic structure to assist the economic situation of the depression. I say over and over again, the Soul never came here to retire. The problem with this theory …
