We have robots. It's the future now. We should be retiring at 85 while the robots live in luxurious sky cities.
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2023
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I'm scared shitless that I will make it to 100.
This. No one realizes that your probably not gonna make it to 100 in perfect health. If your body doesn't go, it will be your mind. Either way, it does not sound appealing.
If nothing else, the arthritis has gotten so bad, you wanna off yourself anyways.
Hard pass.
We should be retiring at 50. This is bullshit.
Wr should be able to retire whenever we want. Fuck work.
If you have enough money then ya
We should be building a society where the concept of retiring is alien because the entire point of living isn't to work.
You can retire at any age you want lol. Most people didn't live in their means nor did they save for retirement starting at 18/22. This was possible 30 years ago. These days? Not so much.
It doesn't mean you can't leverage it way better than most though. Starting a Roth IRA saves more money than even paying off your house loan in half the time. That's saving an extra $70,000 for most. Putting into retirement early triples that lol.
Compound interest via stock/bonds is a bullshit money generating hack made up by rich people to get richer though. The poors literally get their dregs from riding on their coattails then acting like they invested well.
I just want wages to increase to a point where people with a decent education can afford a home without any major financial stress.
It's not normal to have professionals with bachelor's degrees not being able to afford a home.
eh, you're free to retire in your mid 30s. it's easy. i retired in my late 30s, then went back to work again when I ran out of money a few years later. it was nice, i look forward to retiring again.
Most people would call that a sabbatical.
Interesting. Is retirement just a sabbatical until death?
middle aged would be around 36.
I didn't come here to be insulted.
Spitting truth
Thanks for starting my day with giving me a midlife crisis.
Yeah I got a jump start on mine, go buy a sports car and have a brief but intense affair with a 22 year old and you'll be fine.
I've always viewed middle aged as 40s
I thought 50 was the middle of your adult life, 20-80 ish years old
If they told you 36 is middle age you would be less inclined to live
According to some module I had to take yesterday, 18-44 is “young adult” and 45 to something is “middle aged.”
Uhm, retirement was invented for the elderly who can't really work on the fields/processing plants anymore. Work changed and people got older since then.
Most people still work manual labor jobs. Cognitive ability also declines with age. Age discrimination during hiring/recruiting is fairly common (witnessed it at nearly every job I've ever had, even though it's illegal, and I've had a lot of jobs). There aren't enough "bullshit jobs" like Walmart greeter for everybody. Aging population can be solved by permissible immigration (which are comparably younger populations), but there are too many racists and politicians worried about demographic shifts.
Since when do most people in the US still work manual labor jobs? Have we not been in a service economy since around the 80s or did I miss something
Work is now driving people to age faster due to stress.
I took a year off work recently to detox and had a zero cortisol policy. Lines on my face faded, hair looks great and stopped thinning, came back nicely, lost weight, almost have a six pack for the first time in my life approaching 40. People know how stressful work is but most don't understand what it's like to truly live for yourself stress free. I'm super fortunate and grateful for having the opportunity to do that and highly recommend.
The hardest part about going back to work was reentering that disgusting American corporate culture of toxic optimism. I'm fine with a lot of work and my stress tolerance/management is much better now. But that culture of toxic optimism is hard to handle.
Wait, your retirement age is less than the average lifespan?
This average is probably including deaths from accidents and illness.
Mean Average is a dumb way to track lifespan as many people (still) die in childhood.
Median is much more representative.
I like the energy, but this is still a dumb take, even if it's common. Where TF did the idea that middle= midpoint come from? So does "middle age" last just an instant?
We have young, and elderly, so what do we can the span in the middle when you're neither of those?
The problem is that we are living longer and healthier than even before and the trend is to keep on rising.
What the real problem is that allowing a person to actually live is troublesome for the current system in place, as in if you do not produce, you are not valuable.
But you are.
The average life expectancy of men in the US is 73 (it was 74 pre-COVID).
Since when do people think 50 is middle-aged? To me it's always been 30-something years old
My entire life I heard 40 is middle aged because life expectancy is somewhere around 80. 40 is when the mid-life crisis starts happening as well.
The worst part about this is that it reminds me that I'm close to having lived the statistical half of my life, damn.
Some say your life doesn't begin until your mid 20s.
I don’t disagree, but people get confused by average lifespan because it includes babies that die. If you live to 60, in the USA you’re expected to live another 21.4 years (almost 82). https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/05/long-life-does-not-always-mean-a-healthy-life-in-old-age.html
And that number is still an average. But I get it, 50 still isn’t the middle.
Y'all get out of here. Middle age starts at 40. Don't at me.
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Thanks!