• randomjoh@lemm.ee
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    5 hours ago

    If you retire with no SS, medicare, an insurance that is required to cover you, medicaid to keep the doors open for even a retirement home to care for you, and your 401K is destroyed from the plunging depression that’s on the rise… it might be cool to worry a bit.

  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    I’ve never understood people who get bored in retirement. I looked forward to it from the very start of my career, and now that I am retired I’ve gotten so into hobbies and interests that it feels like there still isn’t enough time for everything.

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      16 hours ago

      Yeah, I also have 5 hobbies and many more interests. I am only scared that I don’t have enough energy left in me once I retire.

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        2 hours ago

        Oh yeah I forgot, careers were an endlessly fulfilling series of fun exciting tasks. And job interviews were like, “A white male with a college degree? You’re hired!” Everybodty’s ignorant fantasies about the past are staggeringly accurate!

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        16 hours ago

        Lol to thinking that it was better. Capitalism was always terrible for normal people.

        But many people just don’t have a lot of hobbies. Change is also scary for many people.

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          2 hours ago

          Objectively I know millions of people simply go to work, come home, eat dinner, watch TV and go to bed. Repeat until dead. I just personally find it hard to relate to that frame of mind. Maybe they fear retirement would be boring because their lives are already boring and the only stimulation they get is at work - but to me that’s sad to imagine.

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    1 day ago

    Gaming and smoking a shit ton of weed in retirement is gonna be great… if we still have social security and access to 401k’s at that point lmao

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      1 day ago

      If they cut the system, we’ll get the money in our pay. So at least we can control it. Just don’t spend it on games that will hit your backlog and sit for years. I’m personally guilty btw.

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        22 hours ago

        Just don’t spend it on games that will hit your backlog and sit for years.

        What do you think I plan on doing in my retirement?

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          13 hours ago

          Right. Some people update their 401k, in over here updating my back log…only 40 more years until I retire. Or die at 90.

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      1 day ago

      Kinda hard to have the retirement OP is suggesting when you run out of money in a month lol But I get your sentiment

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    1 day ago

    My father is retired and still needs to use PowerPoint. He is very bad at retirement.

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    1 day ago

    By the time I retire I hope we’re in or moving towards a mix of solarpunk and star trek like utopia

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    1 day ago

    And then you die because a blood clot that formed in your leg came loose and shot up into your brain, because you’ve been sitting for weeks playing videogames.

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    1 day ago

    Just plug my old ass into the matrix. If I live to see 80 we’ll probably have some kind of full dive VR by that point. Or at least something approaching it.