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Upvoted, and I’m 60.
Death in the water wars is my retirement plan
Do you mean from dehydration, or in the literal wars as a causality?
If you die from dehydration in the water wars, you’re missing the point of the water wars. Don’t stop charging until your thirst is quenched.
or the BezosBotsTM kill you first.
I saw a 1995 documentary called Screamers that attempts to accurately depict this.
Yes, probably
Knowing my luck, I’ll work until I drop dead and then money will lose it’s value
I’m just going to keep working until I die at my desk, as our capitalist overlords intended. Maybe cause of death will be natural, or nuke, or zombies, or whatever. It doesn’t really matter in the end.
Dark humor aside, I think a lot of people are just trying to figure out the future one step at a time.
My plan is to be rich enough, old enough and western european enough that the collapse won’t really hit till after I’m dead.
Who needs money? I’m sitting on a gold mine of microplastics in me. We can create a parallel peer-to-peer microplastic economy.
Option B could be to make civilization good enough that retirement is not needed. Basic income is one thing but enough jobs and affordable medical care could make sure that age is not a problem.
Sure, I mean literally millions of people want this, but like 20 billionaires don’t want to lose an insignificant amount of their wealth so that means we don’t get to have it. :(
Millions of people want free money. How many are willing to spend the time to make it work? The problem is not the revolution but to regularly make investment decisions and to decide what the economy should do.
I would absolutely love to work towards making the world a better place and not to make like 3 guys richer
What is holding you back?
Society?
What do you want to do and how is society preventing it?
I think it’s more like, any job you have in a capitalist system (which we live in especially in the USA) will result in enriching the borgeousie more than the laborers. Exceptions may apply for worker owned businesses but those are few and far between and even then usually there is still a hierarchy for pay that can be rather unequal in distribution.
Anyways idk that’s not really a question that has a simple answer but that’s just something off the top of my head.
For a funnier example, let’s say I wanted to murder you and a few other peeps just to have a good time. Society would prevent that through laws and punishment, of course the real thing stopping me is the hassle and chance I could get imprisoned and my own moral compass but it’s just a pithy example of where free will and society could intersect.
There’s an infinite number of examples of how society curbs individual behaviors.
I wish I had your optimism mate
I don’t have it either. But that shouldn’t prevent us from thinking about what could be done.
I’m not sure why those things would eliminate the need for retirement. Affordable medical care and jobs aren’t a problem in Europe. People still don’t function all that well when they get old.
My father had the same retirement plan. Will the cycle ever break
In what Marxist paradise are you allowed to retire at 65?
If you’re still on Shitter, you’re part of the problem you’re dooming about.
I think that tweet is from a time when most of twitter still thought musk was one of the good ones trying to save the world.
Ah. More innocent days, eh? When we could still tell apart what was sarcasm and what was prediction.
I think you are being optimistic about things lasting till you’re 65.
I don’t know, they might be 64 currently
I mean, I’m not wrong.
