Your plan is really the only hope for not just having to work ourselves to death. Needless to say, that's the outcome I'm rooting for too. But then there's the nagging possibility (likelihood?) that the replacement government after collapse is even more explicitly fash, a scenario in which many of us probably die a violent death long before we would otherwise simply be slowly worked to death under the status quo. Still, I'm betting on collapse too with my fingers crossed that it will turn out like you said.
But then there's the mounting climate catastrophes...
a lot can happen in 45, 50 years. I have more hope in the left getting its shit together in that time than me personally making and saving 3 million dollars
I'm with you. I hope the left can take advantage of the coming multipolar world and become a force strong enough to give the working class the relief and dignity it needs and deserves. But I have to admit, I am pretty pessimistic about the imperial core and fear things there will get much worse before better. Sounds like I'm older than you though. In 50 years I'd be 90 (in other words, long dead). If the left does get its shit together, like you said, I hope it happens relatively quickly. Certainly agree it's more likely than me getting $3mil too.
When the USA fails, nobody is going to bail it out and let it keep being quietly corrupt out of convenience. That’s what the USA does for other authoritarian countries, they can’t bail themselves out.
my retirement plan is the government collapsing and getting replaced with one that provides pensions ngl
CW: doomerism.
Your plan is really the only hope for not just having to work ourselves to death. Needless to say, that's the outcome I'm rooting for too. But then there's the nagging possibility (likelihood?) that the replacement government after collapse is even more explicitly fash, a scenario in which many of us probably die a violent death long before we would otherwise simply be slowly worked to death under the status quo. Still, I'm betting on collapse too with my fingers crossed that it will turn out like you said.
But then there's the mounting climate catastrophes...
a lot can happen in 45, 50 years. I have more hope in the left getting its shit together in that time than me personally making and saving 3 million dollars
I'm with you. I hope the left can take advantage of the coming multipolar world and become a force strong enough to give the working class the relief and dignity it needs and deserves. But I have to admit, I am pretty pessimistic about the imperial core and fear things there will get much worse before better. Sounds like I'm older than you though. In 50 years I'd be 90 (in other words, long dead). If the left does get its shit together, like you said, I hope it happens relatively quickly. Certainly agree it's more likely than me getting $3mil too.
That pessimism seems warranted. I don't see how we get a DotP or even just a competent state without things getting much, much worse than now first.
When the USA fails, nobody is going to bail it out and let it keep being quietly corrupt out of convenience. That’s what the USA does for other authoritarian countries, they can’t bail themselves out.