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Avoid Retirement and Stay Alive: The New Retirement Revolution

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Well,finally, a realistic book about "retirement". As the book says in the beginning, retirement was developed just to make room for younger people in the workforce, but we don't need to do that anymore. In fact, companies will need us because we are more educated, and have better work ethics than the younger set - and, many of us must keep working if we are to live.

If you want to retire and go to an island somewhere, this is not for you. But, if you need to keep working, or want to keep working, this is a good book to read. I've looked at so many books on retirement about saving money for the long haul ahead - like 20-30 years of retirement. There is NO way I can retire, nor should I have to just because it's the thing to do.

My main disappointment with this book is that it took 274 pages to say what could have been said in 50 pages. Most of the content was empty and I found myself getting angry and frustrated with the author's constant repetition. I kept pressing on in the hope that the book would eventually reveal some new insight but it never did. I don't think I have ever been so happy to finally finish a book and end the frustation.

The Avoid Retirement book is an excellent example of an economic paradox:
How do you retire if less than 20% of the American people have a pension?
The majority of Americans cannot retire because they do not have a pension
and are under constant risk of losing their 401 (k). About 80% of Americans
have $45,000.00 in their 401 k and most American can only expect $1,200.00
from social security. If we add this up, we find that most Americans (80%)
will make about $1,500.00 a month or $18,000.00 a year for retirement. Many have substandard health care programs and do not factor in the cost of health cost.The top economic forecast out of the Netherlands economist has argued we will be beginning a 30 year inflation cycle: this means higher prices for goods and service that the $18,000.00 a year will be receipe for buying pet food. The
book should be rename named avoid retirement and avoid economic disaster.
The other 20% are making substantially more than $18,000.00 a year and
the books advice is excellent because the retirement industry propaganda
is based on economic fantasy and you need to plan for living and not
dying. This book helps Americans avoid a generational disaster: the mass retirement of Baby Boomer will create an economic deflation and depression. They will
retire on a "kool aid" high and find out they will be living in poverty. The Boomers stairway to heaven is stairway to mass poverty or economic hell!