The reason why money is taken from your paycheck and then after you retire slowly given back to you is because otherwise people would spend it all at once.
This is the reason I don't believe in using Bitcoin or any other crypto as "retirement" because this people will be out of money after short time.
while you're making this assumption, understand that retirement plan is not only for those in the civil service sector. A business person and even an entrepreneur can set out a retirement plan while he's still actively working. for the context of those that are civil servants and have a certain amount deducted from thier salary and saved up for there retirement plan, if there is an option to decide if you're okay that the portion of your earning that's going to take care of your retirement needs be paid to you or saved up for you, I would prefer to receive it and invest it into an asset I'm comfortable with rather than saving it with the government.
It's not everyone that's careless with the money that comes into there account. Some are very meticulous with it and knows how to use it for something that will double the money for a givine span of time. There are a lot of issues with keeping all your retirement benefits with the government and when you've worked for 30 to 40 years, you then get paid. In my region, it's a big risk to hope on your retirement benefits and for most individuals, you will end up waiting till you're dead and won't see the money that has been deducted from your salary as iether pension or gratuity. This is a tale almost 70% of retired folks have had to cope with and others have even lost hope in the system.
Some want to believe that Bitcoin price will grow fast enough to recover their spending, it's a funny bet on your life and probably will end with homelessness.
I agree partly with you on this. I don't think that Bitcoin is the best retirement option. When you're considering what's best for a retirement plan, you're more concerned about what's certainly going to be available at the time of your retirement and not what might experience a dip during the phase of your retirement. I know that if you're still young and starts buying Bitcoin from this period that it's at the rate of $65k that before you approach your retirement phase it would have gotten to at least $250k to $300k hopefully which would be a better choice than the usual savings methord, but that's a risk you wouldn't be able to cope with should things go contrary to plan. As an edge against inflation in a long term that's not as long as the normal retirement circle, Bitcoin is the perfect investment model but anything too far to a point we can't comfortably make speculation on at this point isn't the best bet for a retirement plan option.
From what I've seen it's usually people in their 20's 30's talking about this retirement "plan" and guess what, they want to retire at 40.
Good luck not spending it all for another 40 years.
As for additional money for retirement, yeah sure.
there is absolutely nothing wrong when you're making a retirement plan at 20 and even if you choose to retire at 40, it's still good. Planning for your retirement doesn't mean that you're not going to work again once you've reached that point but could rather be that you might slow things down a bit and focused on a rather less adventurous things. If you've set your plans right, you even after retirement at 40, you can still leave a comfortable life till you're old enough to exit this world.