60 is life expectancy 50% don’t make it to 60
0-10 years.
You can die during the first 60 at any time, never making it.
Die before retirement? Well that’s one way to escape wage slavery 😄
Or never retire due to circumstances outside your control in your working years
40+ years is a long time for shit to go wrong
i think about this when looking at the deduction % on my paystub i chose for retirement savings i may never use
At least it will give your children or siblings something to fight over when you die.
only 1 child, so he has it easy, unless i remarry, then it may get spicy
Free? That’s when your kids send your grandkids for you to take care of. Ungrateful bastards…
How selfish of you to deny your fortune to be able to contribute to the wealth of the chosen few!
This framework fails to consider all the time between those main activities, which we spend shitposting.
Indeed, most days consist of 8 hours working, 8 hours sleeping and 8 hours shitposting.
40 years? Try 50+
I started working at 14-15, and I’ll be happy if I can retire at 65
Anf then you move to western or northern europe. Wait you guys got childhoods? Wait you guys get actual 6-8 hours of work a day instead of having 4 hours of unpaid overtime after it? Wait you guys get to retire at an age and health condition where you just travel poor african and asian countries for another 15 years being racist in some very strange colonialist manner?(this last one being a critique)
The philosopher Emil Cioran had an interesting take on this. If I read him right we can stop looking for the meaning of life. It won’t make us happy to look, but it also won’t make us happy to stop. Nothing will make us happy.
The only thing missing from this is the quest for a cruelty free pee, that seems to take up most of our lives these days.
What?!
It’s not my job to educate you
I generally know what cruelty-free means, but searches for “cruelty free pee” just yield regular stuff about cruelty-free products, as well as some anti-odour thing for pet pee… ;n;
/unshitpost
I have no idea either
/reshitpost
Try harder, colonialist
Cruelty free pee is pee that didn’t burn when it came out. It’s so cruel that God does this to me.
Yikes… Good luck with that.
The Beatles had the meaning of life in a song back in the day- Life Goes On
That’s it, it just goes on
If you’re lucky you have a kid
I was free from 0-6.
I am going to study from 6-27, roughly, though also working in the meantime. Let’s call that 20 years.
I intend to work from 23-50, at most. Hopefully less. That’s 27 years.
There’s some overlap.
Let’s say I die at 80 (I’m almost 25). A slightly early death, on average.
That’s 36 free years. 27 years of work. 20 years of study.
36 free years VS 44 work/study years
Methinks possible. Methinks not so bad?
I’m curious on how you plan to retire at 50. Doing that where I live means you basically get no pension so you’d have to have saved up enough to live the rest of your life during those 27 years, so a bit over half your income would need to go into a savings account.
Look up “FIRE” for “financial independence, retire early.”
tl;dr - save a larger chunk of your salary and
invest itbecome part of the owner class, living off theinterest, dividends, and capital gainssurplus value generated by the working class.You seem to already know pretty much what I plan to do. What I’m already doing.
I’m saving a bit more than half my income, and I’m investing it rather than putting it in a savings account, but yeah that’s it, you got it!
