The dependency ratio has gone up something like ~11-15% since the 50s whereas GDP has gone up something like 2-300%. This is where your pension wealth actually

The dependency ratio has gone up something like ~11-15% since the 50s whereas GDP has gone up something like 2-300%. This is where your pension wealth actually went: https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/middleclasssqueeze-fig11.png https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/... >Retirement is the golden carrot dangled in front of us Not exactly. The 1% keeps pushing the "demographic time bomb" trope through the media precisely to make us believe that that this "golden carrot" is a vain hope.