• HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      As far as I understand, I don’t have a 401k. I have nothing. I have never considered retirement to be a reasonable outcome for anyone in my generation or younger, but even still, it’s not like I would have been able to save more than a scant couple thousand after decades of work.

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        2 days ago

        for anyone in my generation or younger

        You think no adults entering the workforce in the last ~20 years if going to be able to retire? What little bubble are you living in?

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          The bubble where the entire concept of retirement will be lost. Where society will crumble into wearing tribes fighting over arable land and fresh water. That one. That bubble. The bubble where this will begin in earnest in our lifetime. The bubble that says this fascist wave around the world is just the precursor and that as people get more desperate, things will only get worse.

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            Definitely didn’t get one of those. Still on track to retire. Your experience isn’t as universal as you seem to think it is