retoot this if your retirement plan is essentially based on the idea that civilisation will probably crumble before you reach 65 and money will be meaningless anyway.
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Roofastronaut
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in reply to Laura Manach • • •@jcrabapple We were just in Brittany, the most climate stable part of France when it comes to global warming - looking for which part we want to move to in the next few years and to be as self-sustainable as possible.
... But it feels like the collapse might come too soon
Mikko
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in reply to Laura Manach • • •Retirement?
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I'm 66 & my life as a F&B/Retail worker means no such thing awaits me
The people who feed us don't deserve it, sez our economic system
#CapitalismKills
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Solidarity from #Tacoma
crazyeddie
in reply to Laura Manach • • •Muro deGrizeco
in reply to Laura Manach • • •"I would have liked to have retired someday."
is what I said last year...
"I would have liked to have lived longer."
is what I said, quietly.
(typo clean up. and addition. hard to type when upset)
Barry Cook
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in reply to Laura Manach • • •So sorry this song is in Dutch, but it is essentially about your 'statement'
Laรฏs - De wereld vergaat
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in reply to Laura Manach • • •The wealthy are doing all they can to destroy the retirement of millions.
Koch Network & Social Security
theguardian.com/commentisfree/โฆ
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/02โฆ
billmoyers.com/story/deep-histโฆ
Examples:
privateequityinternational.comโฆ
The first target after elites manufacture a financial crisis, rollbacks on retirement benefits.
1. Greece & vulture capitalists
thenation.com/article/archive/โฆ
ineteconomics.org/perspectivesโฆ
2. Argentina & vulture capitalists
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08โฆ
democracynow.org/2016/3/11/theโฆ
The Vulture: How Billionaire Rubio Backer Paul Singer Made Billions off Argentina Debt Crisis
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Christian
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in reply to Laura Manach • • •Perfect, be nice and spend Money for there future. And talk to them often, and take care... gosh i like to have some.
Humans smashed this paradise in Parts and i hope it will not end up in a dead loop or war. But we are here and stay and teach. And love and live. Its work, but still kind of a paradise.
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Mark Harbinger
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in reply to Laura Manach • • •Simon Brooke
in reply to Laura Manach • • •mine was. I'm now 69... but it was a good bet when I made it, back in 1972, and it's a good bet now.
ANY pension plan is a bet that #capitalism will outlive you. Even if you believe it would be a good thing if it did, do you seriously believe it can?
Furthermore, we should encourage people not to invest in pensions not merely because it's a bad bet, but because people who are invested in the system are motivated to keep on propping it up, even as it destroys the world we live on.
noiseician ๐ด๐ค๐
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in reply to Laura Manach • • •eat veggies daily and survive
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in reply to Laura Manach • • •That was my thoughts as a teenager ("promises" of nuclear winter, sudden climate collapse etc). I'm now closer to retirement than I am to that age and think perhaps more retirement planning might be needed.
On the flip side, neither of my parents reached their retirement age (and its 10yrs+ higher for me) so there is still "hope" that retirement funds won't be needed.
HoldMyType
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in reply to รngel • • •Yeah, my Ben Franklin style "bald on top" with fringe doesn't lend itself to mohawk.
Ainiriand
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Davey
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in reply to Laura Manach • • •I'm getting pretty close to 65 so I'm hoping that money will still have some meaning at least in the early years of my retirement.
But if I were in my 30s or something I would definitely be retooting that.
BrambleBearGrrrauling
in reply to Laura Manach • • •this bleak scenario screams for some solarpunk reimagining. What if we wrote our way into a future we would want? Imagine on paper, in art, then follow the instructions we wrote for ourselves?
#solarpunk
#resistance
#writing
Chris Mackay ๐จ๐ฆ
in reply to Laura Manach • • •DartzIRL
in reply to Laura Manach • • •My retirement plan is the express self checkout lane.
I've done work in enough retirement homes to know I never want to end up in one of those fucking places.
Rey ๐ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
in reply to Laura Manach • • •wow there are a lot of lucky people in this thread with unusual levels of luck
I was on track to have a retirement, but then I lost a lot of it in the divorce and lost a lot more of it by being out of work due to disability for nearly 7 years
glad all the older folks got in on the rising edge, hope they get their mortgages paid off before the AI bubble collapses ๐คก
Laura Manach
in reply to Rey ๐ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ • • •RevPudDudley
in reply to Laura Manach • • •@cmconseils. and dying's not very affordable either.
Still, would be a great relief I guess
[also wouldn't hear anybody chortling about how clever they were, 'Oh fuck you' to that party! ]
Pete Prodoehl ๐
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in reply to Laura Manach • • •I have a rule under which I perma-band anyone who engages in this kind of cynicism.
If you want the world you fear to come about, keep pouring acid all over it.
JamesWNeal
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