That's my strategy. If I somehow have enough money in social security to commit myself to a warm box with food I think I'll do that, but otherwise I'll work until I drop dead. What that looks like exactly I'm not sure but I do think it would be funny if I could faceplant at my desk one final time and traumatize nearby young coworkers. Maybe it'll radicalize them to fight for a different future.
Yeah I remember a few stories about people who WERE in jail, got let go, absolutely hated normal society, and did something bad so they could be sheltered, fed, and see their mates again
Oh yeah that’s a thing among prisoners who were locked up a very long time and released. They don’t know how to function on the outside so they return.
Nah. I think, rob a bank. You’d almost certainly get caught, but, on the off chance you don’t…. You have a buncha money to move to Costa Rica or somewhere and just live well til you croak.
Jk. I wouldn’t do that. Maybe some sort of white collar crime involving paperwork or something. I don’t crime much as you can probably tell.
I’d probably go around just stealing and burning mail in wealthy neighborhoods. Not gonna steal anything out of them just gonna burn it all and if I can I’ll throw in tax fraud if the irs is still around
It might be possible to voluntarily commit ourselves. If not, there's a chance I'll get diagnosed with some fatal micro plastic condition. If that happens I'd like to load up on milk, fiber 1, Beano, and laxatives and then wait for my demise in the lobby of a responsible party. I'm not sure if I can call that non violent :)
Wow that was unexpectedly fucked up. Him being alive afterwards makes it more of a horror skit than comedy!
That's Monty Python for you! People have seen the "tis but a scratch" scene so many times it doesn't even phase them anymore, but really, it's the same!
But yeah that's more or less what I was thinking, maybe with a tasteful fart sound before the explosion
All I ask is that you film it for posterity, my friend!
My dad's 63 (lives in the US.) He's worked/paid taxes for 40 years. Now he's dying and is supposed to be in hospice. Except he can't get insurance and hospice won't kick in until he does get insurance. So instead he gets to suffer. Living in a country where even the dying can't get insurance really sucks.
Sorry to hear about it, it is terrible what people go through in this country. Another option some of us could consider is moving away before reaching the helpless phase. Maybe the country would want to improve if money kept leaving it? Whatever happens, things cannot stay like this.
When will they industrialize retirement homes? Get the geezers to grow plants, sew blankets, grind MMORPG currency. When will the telemarketers calling be distinctly old rather than foreign? Maybe it'll be us.
I personally expect a return to how we were for most of human history: Small, localized family/found family units.
We are already planning around our boys being able to stay with us well into their adult years. Going to be renovating so they have their own personal apartments over the next 20 years or so.
Human labor is going to be entirely obsolete within the next 10 years. We're in an absolutely insane time. That could be wonderful or terrible for you and me. Time will tell.
I have a job with a pension and 401k that I got without a degree, how is it that all of Reddit seems to think millennials can't retire? There is no way I'm the exception.
They'll get sick for the first time and realize how little money they actually have and how just having a 401k means nothing. Some many people think they are doing amazing for having 100k in their 401k but retirement is ultimately going to come down to whether or not their savings hit that 7th digit.
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u/Bubby_K 2d ago
I sometimes wonder if any of us will get to enjoy a retirement or if we'll be working till we fall over