Of course I’ll retire, when I can no longer get a job, and that time is coming up fast. I only hope it’s not until I get my teens through college and off to a running start. I don’t see how I can afford to keep my house or even continue to live in this town, though

I’m not sure I agree with the narrative about being worse off by generation, though, because it is so tied to what you do. I’m a little sad about my older son starting adult life “in hard mode”: i’m proud that he wants to teach, and we live in an area with generally better teacher pay, but he’ll never earn much. It has certainly made my life easier to be paid better as a software engineer, even if circumstances mean I’m not financially able to retire. He’ll almost certainly live with less, have fewer opportunities, purely by choice of career, and without regard to his generation. Tack on the excessive housing inflation and his desire to stay in a hcol state, and I can’t help but worry for him

Alas, I do have a plan involving retirement. It is filed under "things that happen to other people".

The probability I'll survive to retirement age is negligible, why worry about it?

My plan is to open a kiosk once I retire im a night owl anyways and it's not too physically demanding.

Thus millennial thinks we will all die in 10 years or so from climate related disasters and none of us will live to retirement age as things currently stand.

I will retire eventually. That may be due to my inability to be productive at an advanced age. I don't see why we shouldn't still get social security payments. I'm gonna just stop eventually once my kids are working. I have a small house and it will have been paid for by that time. Hopefully I can just rest at that point. Job done.

Retiring in a cheap country in South America seems like the best option. Makes the money stretch way farther.

My plan is "hope the afterlife is real and then be a spooky ghost"

Retire? Nah when I'm done with life I'm just going to blow my brains out all over a politician or millionaire hedge fund manager.

They want to fuck over my future, I'll take their sanity and gift wrap enough PTSD that every sleep is a nightmare.