[jusiool]

Retirement funds are something a lot of young people expect to never see if current trends of debt and healthcare prices keep up. I'm quite young (<25), we're not stupid and a lot of us understand basic economics, but rhetoric is important in these times because a candidate trying to tax the rich is better than one that doesn't try at all.

Future generations will be burned once they realise living like the baby boomers did is unsustainable, hence a lot of us have given up on the economy, whatever that means.

[SaintGhurka]

If the world doesn't end, and it usually doesn't, you'll wish you had put something into your 401k.

Please view your own pessimism with a bit of skepticism. Pessimism tends to betray people who buy into it too much.

I heard very similar things 30 years ago when I was <25 and in part I bought into it. And buying into it did me damage because none of it came to pass. Society continued to muddled along.

It's possible that the system will suffer a disorderly collapse, or maybe it will be uprooted and replaced with something more progressive. Just don't bet your future on either outcome.