Are You Not Better Off Prioritizing Retirement Accounts?

If there's a specific expenditure that you know you're going to be making then no it absolutely doesn't make sense to contribute to a retirement account in that scenario. The second question has nothing to do with retirement accounts and it has everything to do with what percentage of my income should i be saving. Should i be saving aggressively for retirement or should i be doing something different now in my life? Are we engaging in rigorously logical thinking by disconnecting the questions from each other? We need to ask ourselves those two important questions they're also completely separate.