If you’re starting to plan your retirement, you’d do well to remember Aesop’s fable about the ant and the grasshopper. The story follows an industrious ant who works hard throughout the warmer months to store up its grain for the winter. All the while, the grasshopper mocks the ant for being so boooooooooring, while it sings and dances and plays its fiddle. It’s all fun and games until the grasshopper is stuck in the cold — and it learns that a song alone won’t keep it fed or warm.
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