I went off a medication a couple years ago but I didn’t tell anyone. I still get it filled routinely, my benefits pay for it. It’s hidden away in a safe place for when it’s time for me to go. I figure maybe 8 more years.
Why does life have to be this depressing?
Poverty. Mass, wide scale poverty.
Isn’t retirement a fairly modern idea? Didn’t people in relatively recent times (say, 100 years ago) just work till they died or lived off the alms of their relatives? We got an economic boom for the boomers which allowed pensions as an invention and they used it heavily, but now the economic situation is completely different so the new generation does not stand to have the same retirement luxury.
I am by no means a historical or economic expert so I may be completely wrong.
Retirement is a modern idea. But looking after the elderly or infirm in your tribe probably dates back to when we were using stone tools and living in caves.
Alms of the relatives is pretty much it, buuuut retirement has been a thing for the upper middle class for a while. Just about every british story in the last few hundred years has a significant portion of their main characters ‘retiring’ to the country, as an example.
Go back further in history, and yeah, you’re living with relatives after you can’t work at your trade anymore.
A lot of them will work shit jobs until they keel over delivering Doordash or shouting “welcome to Walmart.”
Exactly the way the system was designed.
That shit already started.
Boardroom suicide bombings probably.
Count me in. If I can’t retire with dignity, let me contribute meaningfully.
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high capacity morgues, crowded street people camps, lucky ones living with their kids
Just ask the Chileans that started retiring in the 2010s what will happen in 30 years
Mass suicide
I can’t believe it took thos long for someone to say it. We’re gonna be throwing kool-aid parties in each other’s backyards.
It’ll look like a lot of old people working themselves to death, or dying on the street AND future conservative politicians pointing backwards and saying “This is all because you voted for {insert socialist or left leading etc government here} but if we had have conserved X, Y, and Z like we said back then this wouldn’t have happened. Only my conservative/far right or variant of nazi party can get us out of this trouble.”
It’s what they’ve been doing for decades, and the fucking idiots keep on believing that bullshit decade after decade.
The media isn’t innocent and destruction of culture and education doesn’t help either.
Oh hey that’s me. Wup Wup.
Thankfully I love my job dying while doing it kinda gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.
Stay positive.
Hopefully we will overthrow the government by then
…any day now…
got 5 years. best get to overthrowing
It looks like pensioners digging through the trash to survive, ala any post Soviet nation.
It will look like a lot of people not retiring. Nor being able to get jobs either. Fun.
Probably something like this.
Inspiring?? 😭
Okay but honestly the expression on his face kinda looks like he’s one of those people that chooses to work because he prefers “working” & being out in the world seeing lots of people every day & feeling useful rather than sitting at home doing nothing.
but 103 years old?! At Walmart?! AAAGH!
