Still worth doing at any age. It is a great benefit if you can get it. Some companies provide no match. It is still worth doing. If you get higher returns the result is dramatic.
Any contribution is better than none.
There are some problems with 401k's in the country today. Really there are. These problems have the same politicians who never could have thought up 401k's to begin with and probably wouldn't have passed what they couldn't think up if they had, worried. Don't be surprised to see them try to fix it. In the next installment I will detail these problems so you can see if you think it is or isn't broken and in need of urgent political fixing.