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Sure. Burn it down. Easy. Annihilating is easy. Razing things to the ground is easy….Trying to fix what’s broken is hard. Hope, is hard.
— Loki, The God of Mischief

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  • “The Future Poor” is a dilemma where the majority of Americans are unknowingly on a road to living at or below the US poverty level of income after their working years.

  • “The Future Poor” is a group referred to as the “sub-50/sub-150” - those under the age of 50 making less than $150k a year.

  • Keeping people out of poverty stands as chief among ethical issues. “The Future Poor” anticipates a future income crisis and examines the necessary actions to keep a generation out of poverty.

  • A group of socially and ethically conscious financial professionals working to address the dilemma that most people in America will retire at or below the US poverty level

The Death of “Retirement”

It would please me greatly to see the current experiment with retirement come to an end. I do not believe we can look back and say that it has been good for people to have adopted an entitled view of retirement.

Unfortunately, we do not have a viable replacement because our social and economic systems aren’t there. Furthermore, we know that conventional financial advice will not get us off the road to becoming The Future Poor.

What is the point of financial strategies that few can do or simply do not work?

Death will come for this version of retirement one way or another. My hope is that it is because we have changed course and altered our projected destination. That vision of the future is hopeful and brings me great joy for it will be a sign of human flourishing in new and dynamic ways. 

If it is not us that puts it to death, it will be the extreme failure and economic troubles that awaits us in a few decades that will cause us to wake up and realize we had a problem all along.

How We Do It

  • Help people learn about how money works in a modern American context

  • Partner with our main social structures on working for a better financial outcome

  • Offer specific financial guidance for individual situations.

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