Think about someone who was born in a western country in the 1920’s and reached his 60’s in the 1980’s. Think how vastly different the world was for him when he retired, comparee to when he was born. Childhood mortality had plummeted, owning a car or flying was common even for an average person, indoor plumbing was a thing in basically every house…

Now think his son who was born in the 1950s and is retiring now. Computers, the internet, smart phones, globalisation… All between his birth and retirement.

The world is going to look orders of magnitude different compared to the world now in a few decades. There is no way anyone young today could predict how the world is when they retire. It’s going to be insane (great or horrible).

I would save money and be prepared just in case (you might also get unemployed in the coming years) but I think we can’t look how our fathers or grandfather’s lives went to look for any benchmark. The change for them was immense, for us it’s going to be mindblowing.