You see, productivity has increased, but wages have stagnated, and yet prices are rising. This is the “middle class squeeze” that is at the core of the so-called retirement crisis. People are simply not able to save enough to one day live without a wage. But it's not because of the decline in pensions. After all, the idea of a pension is in itself very 20th century, based on the assumption that an individual will spend most or all of his working years at one company and therefore have a chance to build up significant pension benefits. This idea does not fit the new, much better economy in which an individual is likely to have a plethora of employers over his working lifetime.
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