That is terrible..
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in my country, the oligarchs already took retirement away for the younger generations. there was talk here and there by the fascists to remove it for everyone. i don't think they would afford to lose their numerous older supporters, but they discarded plenty of them during covid so who knows.
worldwide trend, regardless of the truthfulness of the pasta here.
If it makes you feel any better, just think of all the libs that have been owned.
She's probably one of them.
MuskRat would call her a parasite for accepting Social Security.
At what point is it stopped being called capitalism and start being called slavery again?
Once we are living in Freedom Cities and essentially serfs without the protection of federal law.
They are going to sabotage any people outside these city-states to force people to submit and live there as slaves rather than starve
Look up Dark Enlightenment, and Network States. This is not conspiracy theory, the VP is vocally in favor of these ideas
guns
This. People would be surprised what you can make at home with a 3D printer.
Registration at this point will only make you a target.
Be ready
What kind? Asking for a friend.
Pump action shotguns are under $200 often if you keep looking through /r/gundeals on reddit.
Pay for a class or two to learn the basics of firearm safety. Hunter safety was free for me but I was 14 at the time so maybe it's not like that anymore.
If you're really against firearms you could go with a crossbow. It used to be that you had to be handicapped to use them for deer hunting, but some states are letting non handicapped people use them now.
Venison jerky ain't so bad.
dunno, but you're gonna want support stuff too, not just guns.
i'm not really the guy to give you an in depth overview of the right weapon for you. i have average redneck knowledge of firearms. a good handgun is probably a great start. take what you can get. anything is better than nothing.
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More like techno-feudalism or techno-sharecropping than slavery...
Well it's not slavery - you still get paid.
It's just that everything you're paid and probably more will get sucked back into the economy to pay for necessities to live, and if you don't make enough money to afford that then you die.
But they aren't killing you directly, so not the same thing.
"You load 16ton what do you get?"
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American dream: 80-yo hobbling upstairs with a cane delivering food to an unemployed 25-yo with $200 in the bank who spends $25 of it to get Wendy's from Doordash. I just want an economy that makes sense.
America is increasingly becoming third world. It reminds me of my home country, where many elders still work to the bone.
Become? Always has been.
People really fall for the "America used to be great" propaganda, huh?
Did no one learn anything in middle school history? We definitely covered ✨the 1900s✨, which featured multiple world wide depressions/ressessions that the US was not exempt from, two world wars where millions of people died, the great dust bowl and famine, and plenty of corruption. Most of which happened just before or during our grandparents lives. It's not like we're talking about the colonial era of this continent or something.
At least part of my education starting at the turn off the century, we were taught these things happened but that once they were over it was a solved problem, never to happen again.
For me there was a narrative that post 1950 the US was the pinnacle of humanity, the best place on earth. Cold war, Vietnam, Korea, all things on the other side of the world from our walled garden. Civil rights was just a few people in the south having disagreements and 9/11 was either swept under the rug or passed off as some dumb dirty Arab who was irrationally angry and lashed out.
It took me moving to the big bad city for college, where I was supposed to be shot every 5 minutes and robbed of everything including the clothes on my back, to have that world view crack enough to begin questioning what I was told. When I did, I was instantly ostracized from my rural upper midwest hometown and became barely tolerated by my family.
The blinders are very real and it's too easy to ignore uncomfortable truths
They're entrepreneurs! They're being their own boss and improving their lives through freedom!
I can see a "feel good" headline
80 Year old woman still hustling - you can't slow down this granny!
You have to work for your retirement if you want to have it. (/s)
I've seen this several times in Florida (retirement capitol of the US). Often times it's couples trying to drive around doing deliveries. They don't even know what a GPS is so they take forever and a day. But then they finally arrive and your anger turns to sorrow when you see these frail old people just trying to survive.
I've noticed that more and more seniors are entering the labor force after retirement and it doesn't have to do with keeping busy. One of my local grocery stores had a woman who would work a few days a week but she quit during Covid. Ran into her on another occasion. She said she quit because she was just doing it to keep busy and she wasn't going to work if she didn't have to. I don't see that anymore. If I make a comment about "keeping busy" to anyone who says they're retired they admit they can't keep up with insurance or property tax increases without working. We're going to see more and more of this as social security dwindles and prices continue to increase.
If you're not producing profit for your masters from cradle to grave, that's profit someone else could be making them. Have you said "thank you" once?
Maybe I'm a bit of an optimist but my grandpa does door dash too, not necessarily for the money because he was lucky enough to have a good retirement net, but just because he fucking hates retirement and is so bored now that hes not allowed to do handyman things anymore (doctor and grandma said he's too old to be running a table saw or climbing a ladder) so he does door dash.
We did make him go pass a driver's test before we let him though haha
he fucking hates retirement
Yet he doesn't give up all his assets and money to prestige. Doesn't he want the full non-retirement experience?
Sounds like your grampa would love a part-time job at a hardware store.
People choosing to stay in the workforce until they almost tip over is great if that's what they want. There's definitely something to be said for keeping some sort of structure. If seen retirement degrade way too many people.
Being forced to stay in the workforce needs to die a swift death.
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And that's why the elderly have become the largest and fastest growing segment of the unhoused
as social security and welfare are dismantled before our eyes (across both Dem and GOP administrations), homelessness will certainly rise especially among the elderly. i for one won't let my parents die in the street but caring for them full time means never having time or money to have children of my own.
capitalism has taken so much from us.
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This is going to be even worse if/when Musk and trump dismantle Social Security. The adult middle class will collapse entirely when their seniors will lose their homes and food, and their children are still at home because they can't afford to live on their own.
Couple this with smaller family sizes, this could mean two single child adults might have to support four living senior citizens (both sets of parents) while also raising children of their own.
People are going to die because they'll have a heart attack or something while exerting themselves at work...
What a nightmare :/
This is called the sandwich generation (when you have to take care of both adults and kids on your own). It's a thing!
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