Hadas Weiss is an anthropologist and a fellow at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study. Her research centers on social aspects of financialization in Israel, Germany, and Spain. She is the author of We Have Never Been Middle Class: How Social Mobility Misleads Us (Verso, 2019).
My parents were on the brink of retirement at the same time as I was researching pension strategies in Israel. So, I couldn’t help thinking about them whenever retirees were discussed. It made things ...