I bought this the other day, cracked it open this morning. And by page 19, after touching briefly on The Great Recession and bailout of 2009 and predicting something even more disastrous in the not too distant future, it made me think of this All of this to erratically ask, do you think it still wise to invest heavily in retirement as a 23 year old? I feel that when I'm putting money away to invest, I'm not only worrying about the quality of the investments I'm making, I'm making existential considerations of future financial systems that, typically, past investors aren't even making. Or is it hubris to think that my generation is the first to have to deal with questions like "will anything even be around in 40 years?"Debt: the First 5,000 Years by David Graeber. This is one that comes up a lot in financial literature.
