Twenty percent is a more rational number.

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We did this after weighing a number of factors mostly rational, but some emotional.

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There's no way to back that number up, but it sounds fairly rational.

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The rational amount we should therefore put aside during our working lives is the amount to pay for our likely number of years in retirement.

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