A Daily Balancing Act

Frank Li
4 min readNov 26, 2023

Retirement statistics are startling: 30% of US workers don’t expect to be able to retire, and about 50% plan to work until 70 or beyond.

Many feel they need more time to save for retirement.

Yet, most people hope to retire someday.

After all, if the primary purpose of work is to support oneself, once enough money is saved, why not retire and enjoy life?

After all, in the long run, we are all dead.

This truism, uttered first by John Maynard Keynes, reflects a paradox at the heart of…

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Frank Li

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