Lots of good thoughts. I'm just a little confused by the grandparents retirement section. I get the general idea that pensions are better than 401k, but retirement has never been "easy". People have always struggled to have enough to stop working. There was a small window of people born from 1920 or so through 1945 or so, who had long careers with pensions. But they also lived through the depression, wars, and collapses in stock and housing prices in the 70's, 80's and 90's and the dot com bust in 2000's. My point is yes pensions need to come back and 401k's suck. But even with a pension, it's still hard to have a decent retirement.
Lots of good thoughts. I'm just a little confused by the grandparents retirement section. I get the general idea that pensions are better than 401k, but retirement has never been "easy". People have always struggled to have enough to stop working. There was a small window of people born from 1920 or so through 1945 or so, who had long careers with pensions. But they also lived through the depression, wars, and collapses in stock and housing prices in the 70's, 80's and 90's and the dot com bust in 2000's. My point is yes pensions need to come back and 401k's suck. But even with a pension, it's still hard to have a decent retirement.
The primary purpose of movies (superhero or not) is entertainment. You probably thinking too much about it when you said
"the rise in superhero movies is a direct result of people not being able to realistically see themselves as heroes."
Fair enough