Most Millennials Have an Unrealistic View of Their Retirement Prospects, Analysts Say (hsbc.com)

From a blog post on research firm HSBC: HSBC calls for millennials to wake up to living and working longer, as research finds only 1 in 10 expects to work past 65. Most millennials have an unrealistic view of their retirement prospects according to a new report from HSBC. The latest report in The Future of Retirement series, Shifting sands, finds that on average millennials expect to retire younger than other working age generations. Millennials expect to retire at 59, two years younger than the working age average of 61. The survey of over 18,000 people in 16 countries finds that only 10 percent of millennials expect to continue working after 65 -- even as their generation faces unprecedented financial pressures and state retirement ages continue to rise around the world. This is despite 59 percent of millennials agreeing they will live much longer and will need to support themselves for longer than previous generations.

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Re:The view fails to account getting &*#@ed

[msauve]

It sounds like you're part of the Entitlement Generation (the proper name). You clearly want to blame all of your problems on externalities, instead of taking responsibility for your own damn self. Really, complaining about the national debt AND student debt in the same breath, as if all you've received should be paid for by others. I don't see any widespread support in younger generations for reducing government expenditures and balancing the budget let alone paying down the debt, just more "gimme" - make tuition free, provide a guaranteed wage, provide free healthcare, etc. No concept of personal responsibility at all. If you'd been told "Westward, ho!" 150 years ago, you would have died before crossing the Appalachians.