Retirement hammock hooks

Following the realization that rising asset prices may not be the cure-all they were once believed to be in funding all sorts of future spending comes yet one more amusing way to look at the dour prospects faced by many private sector workers in their aspirations toward a life of leisure in their golden years (from the Tom Toles collection at the Washington Post).
Someday, years from now, the nation will undoubtedly look back and wonder what they could have possibly been thinking when, in the present era, public sector workers were permitted to retire with generous benefits at a relatively early age.