A craving for certainty
Even if we know we cannot avoid uncertainty, we continue to pursue certainty.
6 min readApr 5, 2024
Retirement planning. It’s one of the classic topics in behavioural economics: most people realize they should be saving (more) for their retirement, but the utility of spending the money now seems so much higher. Retirement is so far in the future that we find it hard to picture ourselves in…