#Future-Security

Retirement planning is a ritual of wagering one’s self-esteem on meaningless formulas and spreadsheets while trembling at the prospect of later life. Pension projections and portfolio graphs give the illusion of carefully moving pieces in the game of life, only to be trampled by market fluctuations and natural disasters. The manufactured sense of security is a collective hallucination born of comfort food and investment advice, with dubious power to guarantee the future. Financial advisors and self-help books are money-grubbing opportunists wearing masks of reassurance. In the end, retirement planning is nothing more than a sandcastle called a “pledge to the future.”