You Will Work Until You Die

I recently saw a YouTube video entitled You Will Never Retire, Here’s Why…, from the channel “How Money Works.” It was an interesting piece that laid out several reasons that most people will never get ahead in the modern age.

The video highlights issues like:

• High cost of living
• Overpriced stock market
• Future lack of technological / economical growth

You can watch the whole argument below if you want, and it is definitely an interesting video:

That said, there is a lot of recent content (across many different platforms) proclaiming that everybody will be forced to work forever or that a looming economic crash will permanently wipeout any money you do save.

This is nothing new, people have been predicting economic crashes and social upheaval since the dawn of civilization.

Likewise, anything ominous with the words “Crash” or “Depression” instantly grabs an audience’s attention. Nobody bought Ravi Batra’s economic history book Regular Cycles of Money…