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humor The Beaverton 2026-04-20

Planner: Are you sure society will exist when you're 65?

A financial planner got existential while meeting a Gen Z client, wondering if civilization will even be around for retirement.


<p>STRATFORD, ON ― Local financial planner George Fitzgerald had his first meeting yesterday with a new client, nineteen-year-old Ahmed Hassan, during which he repeatedly assumed the unorthodox premise that there would still be retirement homes, grocery stores, and other such institutions as might make money relevant when Hassan reached 65. β€œHe kept yammering on about [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/04/financial-planner-operating-on-strange-assumption-gen-z-c...

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