me_irl

As someone on the downswing of this seesaw, I welcome a rebalancing.

I think a big issue for working class folks who can even afford to prep for retirement is we don't know how much we'll need. And basically the fewer rights and social safety nets you have, the more money you need to attempt to insulate yourself from the ravages of capitalism.

If we had more socialist policies to keep everyone relatively comfortable even the poor, then working people wouldn't have to be so mercenary about building their nest egg (which will never be big enough to be totally safe anyway).