Against Cozy Catastrophies
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
English - June 06, 2022 03:01 - 12 minutes - 18.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsBooks Arts sciencefiction stories audiobook corydoctorow doctorow Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, Against Cozy Catastrophies, about the how the changeover from universal, state- or employer-provided pensions to market-based pensions like the 401(k) have created an inescapable, slow motion catastrophe, where the only thing worse than being one of the lucky few with retirement savings is being... more
This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, Against Cozy Catastrophies, about the how the changeover from universal, state- or employer-provided pensions to market-based pensions like the 401(k) have created an inescapable, slow motion catastrophe, where the only thing worse than being one of the lucky few with retirement savings is being part of the vast majority who do not.
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