My parents believed in job security, company pensions, Social Security, and Medicare. These are all worn-out, obsolete ideas left over from an age gone by. Today job security is a joke, and the very idea of lifetime employment with a single company an ideal so proudly championed by IBM in its heyday is as anachronistic as a manual typewriter. Robert Kiyosaki Many thought their 401(k) retirement plans were safe. Hey, they were backed by blue-chip stocks and mutual funds, what could go wrong? As it turned out, everything could go wrong. The reason these once-sacred cows no longer give any milk is that they are all obsolete: pensions, job security, retirement security it s all Industrial- Age thinking. We re in the Information Age now, and we need to use Information- Age thinking. Robert Kiyosaki