If we’re going to live on average to age one hundred, we are certainly not going to be retiring at 65 or anything close to 65, because we’re not going to be able to earn enough money prior to 65 to finance retirement to one hundred.
We’re going to have to rethink retirement, we’re going to have to rethink careers, and we’re going to have to rethink education. The education you get when you’re 18 to 22 is not going to satisfy your job requirements when you’re 85, so we have to think about continuing education.
We have to think about retirement in a different way, and we have to rethink work and family altogether. If you’re going to be working until, let’s say, 85, maybe you can take some years out in your 30s to raise your children full-time. Maybe that will become the model, and we’ll have to figure out how to finance that. This is an opportunity to rethink a lot of our ideas about how to combine work and family.
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