· Chapter Ten ·
SAVE FOR A TRADITIONAL RETIREMENT . . . BUT DON’T PLAN ON HAVING ONE
Yet there is no country and no people, I think, who can look forward to the age of leisure and of abundance without a dread.
—JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
The elephant in the Gig Economy room is the question of when, and whether, we can ever stop working. If our working lives consist of multiple jobs and variable income, can we retire? The good news is that, yes, we can still retire. The Gig Economy retirement may never be the corporate-funded, work-free decades they once were, but there’s a case to be made that with thoughtful planning and commitment, retirement can still exist.
The less-good news is that we have to save for and finance retirement ourselves. Corporate ...
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