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Death in the water wars is my retirement plan
Do you mean from dehydration, or in the literal wars as a causality?
If you die from dehydration in the water wars, you're missing the point of the water wars. Don't stop charging until your thirst is quenched.
or the BezosBots^TM^ kill you first.
I saw a 1995 documentary called Screamers that attempts to accurately depict this.
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Dark humor aside, I think a lot of people are just trying to figure out the future one step at a time.
My father had the same retirement plan. Will the cycle ever break
Knowing my luck, I'll work until I drop dead and then money will lose it's value
I'm just going to keep working until I die at my desk, as our capitalist overlords intended. Maybe cause of death will be natural, or nuke, or zombies, or whatever. It doesn't really matter in the end.
My plan is to be rich enough, old enough and western european enough that the collapse won't really hit till after I'm dead.
Who needs money? I’m sitting on a gold mine of microplastics in me. We can create a parallel peer-to-peer microplastic economy.
If you're still on Shitter, you're part of the problem you're dooming about.
I think that tweet is from a time when most of twitter still thought musk was one of the good ones trying to save the world.
Ah. More innocent days, eh? When we could still tell apart what was sarcasm and what was prediction.
Option B could be to make civilization good enough that retirement is not needed. Basic income is one thing but enough jobs and affordable medical care could make sure that age is not a problem.
Sure, I mean literally millions of people want this, but like 20 billionaires don't want to lose an insignificant amount of their wealth so that means we don't get to have it. :(
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I wish I had your optimism mate
I don't have it either. But that shouldn't prevent us from thinking about what could be done.
I'm not sure why those things would eliminate the need for retirement. Affordable medical care and jobs aren't a problem in Europe. People still don't function all that well when they get old.
In what Marxist paradise are you allowed to retire at 65?
I think you are being optimistic about things lasting till you're 65.
I don't know, they might be 64 currently
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