The Retirement Crisis, Digital Literacy & The Case For Upskilling

many of the assumptions embedded in our culture about what is necessary to live a successful, middle-class lifestyle are quickly eroding. With the disappearance of medium-skilled jobs, it’s not enough to get a basic education and work hard every day in order to succeed. Instead, you need to move into the higher-skilled category, where learning is c

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Like it or not, we’re all ‘entrepreneurs’ now, even if we never start a company. The old model of stable employment for life with a government pension in retirement is no longer a safe bet. Instead, we have to increasingly think in terms of non-linear returns, protecting the downside, finding ways to profit from volatility, and creating diverse inc

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Retirement is a relatively new phenomenon. It comes from people having decided that rather than using the time-saving technology and inventions that appeared around the first half of the 20th century to live a life of leisure, they would live a life of shopping and work until they could no longer function as useful--that is, income-earning--units i

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"Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it," said Stephen Hawking. Whether that is an assessment you agree with or not, much of our conception of ourselves is tied up in work. The effect of covid-19 is accelerating a shift away from humans and towards machines, doing so at a time in which we may actually feel grateful for cybo... See more

It leads to major cost savings for companies. Tech is evolving rapidly, and the truth is that some jobs might become obsolete, making specialized, temporary skills more valuable.

This shift aligns with a cultural change where people are less loyal to long-term employers and more interested in using their skills independently to earn more.

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