The counter to that would be that you've spent the 'best' - physical fitness, opportunities for fun, appetite for risk and adventure - years of your life slogging to make someone else rich.ShaunWhite wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 5:21 pmWhen you can see the end ahead and you realise the state pension is about £150 a week, you might wonder if toeing the line for 20 years, building a pension, buying a house etc might have been worth doing. Gotta get your low level Maslow needs banked.
Graft till 50 and fun after that was always my goal. 32 adult years working, hopefully 32 adult years playing seemed like a doable thing.
In my opinion the gamble is whether or not people get out of the rat race unscathed - mental health, body in working order - to enjoy some good years, probably with a spouse who is also (hopefully) still in good nick.
Perhaps the last wishes of the dying are instructive here, and it's rare that you hear people on their death bed say "I wish I'd worked more, I wish I'd put more by for my pension"