50 Is The New Retirement Age

[lumberjack_jeff]

11. All problems are math problems.

What's the probability of effecting enough change in the overall society to change the other variables?

With a 54% employment to population ratio, social change is certainly justified, but one must take personal action to deal with the world as it is.

The demand for labor is fundamentally constrained. No amount of wishing or hoping changes the fundamental reality that every job has 1.4 people who could/would do it.

Age, ability and education are the fitness metrics that the workforce uses to vote people off the island. The workforce is going to force retirement on all of us, probably before age 65, so arrange your finances to maximize your happiness. And if a college education confers useful skills with a finite shelf life, do the ROI math.