Early Retirement: Are We Asking The Wrong Question?

The Nest Egg Almost every financial discussion of retirement seems predicated on the same basic plan: work for a lifetime while saving up a pot of money that you will then spend through your retirement until it is gone.  This is the path the average investor is led down by the financial advice industry which earns commissions from managing their growing investments.  Most of us start with modest means: we believe we must work 3 or 4 decades to pay our way but if we steadily...