$4 Million huh that only represents...265 years (no taxes, ALL money saved), of working full time at minimum wage. That seems like a reasonable target...
Also, perhaps a bit :alex-aware:, but the "stock your retirement account" feels like it's just a scam (lol, we won't get to retire) to trick us into pouring even more money into the financial manipulation markets
$4 Million huh that only represents…265 years (no taxes, ALL money saved), of working full time at minimum wage. That seems like a reasonable target…
Just find a vampire to bite you and you can live/work that long and save up. Easy for a sigma alpha male to do.
just kill and rob the vampire. Vampires are probably rich dudes
my new platform for communism is to not only resurrect Lenin but also to hunt down all the vampires and then do the communism thing
“stock your retirement account” feels like it’s just a scam (lol, we won’t get to retire)
RetirementCrypto currency doesn't exist how can that be? I could write their ad copy...
Listen up, Millennials: RetirementCrypto. With a one thousand dollar buy in you may be able to retire in 10 years!*
*Results not guaranteed. A growth rate of 400,000% is assumed.
I plan on retiring in the bombed out irradiated wasteland with man-scorpions after the water wars and nuclear war of 2026.
I didn't realize the 1977 movie Damnation Alley was somehow a documentary about the future.
Oh yes, retirement. When I grow old and tell my grandchildren about what retirement was they'll probably think I've finally lost it and put me in an assisted employment facility.
I think I saw one of these earlier this year that said $3 million, so that's cool.
Inflation. Inflation. Inflation. Inflation. Inflation. Inflation. Inflation. The key to the democrats winning all races for the next hundred years is focusing on inflation. Inflation. Inflation. Inflation. Inflation. Inflation. Inflation.
Inflation. Inflation. Inflation. Inflation. Inflation. Inflation. Inflation.
Has been functionally flat for over 20 years. It wasn't until the Boomers started retiring (and dying) that the labor pool got tight and suddenly prices went through the roof.
Something something cost of a coat something something.
saving early and regularly
investing wisely
budgeting your expenses
Okay I've done all that, my after-expenses saving is about $50/mo, so I just need to work for 6,666.67 years to retire. Oh wait, I forgot about inflation, so lets just round that up to an even 7,000 years. Sounds reasonable to me!
I just need to work for 6,666.67 years to retire. Oh wait, I forgot about inflation, so lets just round that up to an even 7,000 years.
The solution to the savings problem is always investment. But investment is predicated on surplus accumulation from other workers. So the answer always ends up boiling down to "Rob Peter to pay Paul."
Libs will justify this by saying that sometimes Peter dies before he can come collect the money you borrowed/stole, and that magically makes the system more resistant than we give it credit for.
Well, I have good news, in 6666 years, that four million dollars will buy you a single nutless m&m
I'll stick with my current plan of dying in the Water Wars thank you very much
Look on the bright side - you might not die. But you need to be ready for the big challenges that come next...
https://hexbear.net/post/236522/comment/3026481
Oh I'll probably die. I live next to a whole pile of fresh water with america right next door. If america ever decides to annex Canada I'd probably be drone striked as a "military age male"
Capitalists just boldly admitting how much you need to generate just to keep this rat carton on the wheels. Retirement isn't just like having money after you retire. It's a value of how much you can spend after you stop producing. They need this much excess just to keep the wretched machine afloat. This is how much you need to insure yourself against the conclusion that you are worthless to them if you cannot consume at the same rate you did after you stop producing.
better plan:
rob the people who are aiming for 4 mil
:think-about-it:Wow keeping expenses less than income. Why did I never think of that? No wonder I’m poor!
My retirement plan is taking a big shit in the air vent of Elon Musks apocalypse bunker
By the time I'm in the zone for retirement it'll be the 2050s or 2060s. Do those decades sound like retirement will be an option or even a meaningful idea? It's hard to imagine things getting better absent a proletariate socialist revolution.
It’s hard to imagine things getting better
I hope things get better. But it's weird for me to contemplate ~2060. By then I'll surely have started my permanent dirt nap.
I think it was Jamie on antifada that put it in a good way, it's like an insult to ask people what their lives will be like in 2045 - it's like "how dare you!?"
I'm an atheist and the big problem with atheism - of course - is you don't even get any promised bonus time. It's just game over. Which is kind of a drag.
My boss asked me in a review where I see myself in 5 years and I almost laughed
lmao retirement, motherfucker I'm gonna be a grizzled tank commander in a post-apocalyptic socialist warband fuck outta here
I see shit like this and I get the vibe they are hoping some millenials will magically dump more of their money into retirement funds that also makes the big line go up which coincidentally helps more :grillman:s retire.
I say magically because how out of touch do you have to be, to think that millenials can shove that much of their yearly income into retirement?
Edit: Also how bout you actually provide people with an attainable means to retire instead of telling them to just work harder. It isn't our fault, its yours.
