high capacity morgues, crowded street people camps, lucky ones living with their kids
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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.
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.
Hopefully we will overthrow the government by then
got 5 years. best get to overthrowing
What's even funnier is the people my age or younger without kids thinking there's going to be some magical person to take care of them as they get older.
Jesus people are deluded. I get many of you don't want kids. Good fucking luck expecting the system or strangers to take care of you 🤣🤣🤣
You assume your kids are going to be your care takers? What makes you think your kids won't move away?
I never said that, but statistically and anecdotally when you get older your first line of support is your family. When you have no family you have no first line of support.
It will look like a lot of people not retiring. Nor being able to get jobs either. Fun.
It looks like pensioners digging through the trash to survive, ala any post Soviet nation.
The same as every generation. The whole reason Social Security was started here in the US is because there were so many indigent old people.
And it's been running out of money since forever, I always figured I'm just paying for my mom's generation and I won't get anything but my kids think they are paying for me and I will get social security but they won't.
Whatever. It was so difficult to work while raising a family, now they are grown it's not so bad, why not work now? I could have used years off better when younger. I would happily work now to pay taxes to support younger people's retirement, and medical/parental paid leave, honestly, even if I can't personally retire.
They really need to remove the income cap on the FICA tax here. It's regressive.
They really need to remove the income cap on the FICA tax here. It's regressive.
Yep, and that's the point. It's the same reason why the rich pay a pittance in taxes and the poor van barely survive and get next to nothing from the government (which wants to take even that away).
It's the same thing we see internationally as well. It's why foreign leaders who try to care about their people are always labeled 'militia leaders' or despots, since it's easier to use thought terminating cliches instead of acknowledging how they're fighting against the colonialist and extractive "agreements" that are foisted upon them.
The point is to make the "lower class" desperate to survive so they don't have the means to better themselves and survive without them.
Probably something like this.
Inspiring?? 😭 AAAGH!!
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!
Same thing it looked like when my parents did it
30 years? it’s happening already! But hey at least Israel has free education and free health coverage and they are killing all their neighbors and taking their homes on our dime. It’s not like the most powerful military in history is being cucked by israel!
I should retire in 23 more years but the truth of the matter is I'm going to work until the day I die, probably at the same hospital where I currently work. Maybe I'll eventually be a nurse but when I'm too old to do patient care I'll stay on as a sitter until I croak or go senile.
Same brother. 43 years old here and it’s looking bleak. :(
Its gonna look like either a revolution now, or soylent green in 30 years.
It's going to look like it does now, only with 30 more years of negligence, incompetence, corruption, and willful destruction.
Unless we change it.
Don't worry, climate collapse will render industrial agriculture extremely difficult in the current form and society will collapse from there. It's really a tossup as to who gets it worse, but the whole world will be thrown into chaos and any retirement plan that you DO have will be obliterated and stolen by technocrats and before they too crash and burn.
I wish that it were any other way but every single time I see something about the climate, it is scientists discovering that things are actually happening sooner and worse than they thought. This has been happening for at least 15 years. What was once "2100 or beyond" became "by 2100" became "by the end of the century" became "around mid century" became "by 2050" became "it could happen any day. It may have already tipped over the edge"
I'm tired.
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Pain, suffering, indignity, and death.
I truly don't know what my wife and I are going to do. I can't seem to hold down a job for more than a year at a time, and when I do have work there is nothing left beyond bills, food, and car. It's just too much.
the real reason they let us have guns is so that we can afford to retire
American?
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