40 years? Try 50+
I started working at 14-15, and I'll be happy if I can retire at 65
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I'm expecting 13-73.
Free? That's when your kids send your grandkids for you to take care of. Ungrateful bastards...
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I’m a 43 year old engineer in an auto plant and I really enjoy my work.
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The meaning is to live life and enjoy as much as you can along the way.
I'm going to leave my kids more than my parents will leave me, and more than their parents left them, and hopefully they'll be shaped with better ideals because of me.
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The philosopher Emil Cioran had an interesting take on this. If I read him right we can stop looking for the meaning of life. It won't make us happy to look, but it also won't make us happy to stop. Nothing will make us happy.
Credit: Sidney Harris
I don't get it.
I'm on the hedonistic treadmill enjoying the run
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Anf then you move to western or northern europe. Wait you guys got childhoods? Wait you guys get actual 6-8 hours of work a day instead of having 4 hours of unpaid overtime after it? Wait you guys get to retire at an age and health condition where you just travel poor african and asian countries for another 15 years being racist in some very strange colonialist manner?(this last one being a critique)
The Beatles had the meaning of life in a song back in the day- Life Goes On
That's it, it just goes on
If you're lucky you have a kid
Study never stops though. So technically study would be 60yrs. Shit, I studied more in the US Coast Guard than in school!
The only thing missing from this is the quest for a cruelty free pee, that seems to take up most of our lives these days.
What?!
It's not my job to educate you
I generally know what cruelty-free means, but searches for "cruelty free pee" just yield regular stuff about cruelty-free products, as well as some anti-odour thing for pet pee... ;n;
Cruelty free pee is pee that didn't burn when it came out. It's so cruel that God does this to me.
Yikes... Good luck with that.
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/unshitpost
I have no idea either
/reshitpost
Try harder, colonialist
I was free from 0-6.
I am going to study from 6-27, roughly, though also working in the meantime. Let's call that 20 years.
I intend to work from 23-50, at most. Hopefully less. That's 27 years.
There's some overlap.
Let's say I die at 80 (I'm almost 25). A slightly early death, on average.
That's 36 free years. 27 years of work. 20 years of study.
36 free years VS 44 work/study years
Methinks possible. Methinks not so bad?
I'm curious on how you plan to retire at 50. Doing that where I live means you basically get no pension so you'd have to have saved up enough to live the rest of your life during those 27 years, so a bit over half your income would need to go into a savings account.
Look up "FIRE" for "financial independence, retire early."
tl;dr - save a larger chunk of your salary and ~~invest it~~ become part of the owner class, living off the ~~interest, dividends, and capital gains~~ surplus value generated by the working class.
You seem to already know pretty much what I plan to do. What I'm already doing.
I'm saving a bit more than half my income, and I'm investing it rather than putting it in a savings account, but yeah that's it, you got it!
36 years as a walking corpse that society no longer wants, outside your grandkids. So you have to perpetuate the cycle to feel anything. Oh, and some beautiful landscape and nice things you can buy, again, while you rot away, and no one cares what you have at all, no one to share with.
What are you talking about? Grandkids at 50?
Do you have to work or study to feel anything? What cycle are you talking about?
I'm confused.
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The meaning of life? Learning to enjoy it. Realizing that even though it's a grind sometimes, every instance is something like a miracle, because given all the things from a microbiological scale to an astronomical scale that had to align in just the right sequence for this moment to occur, the probability that you'd even exist to be reading this message is so incredibly close to nil and yet it is happening.