• Chaotic Entropy
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    1 year ago

    Societies that have been created around the concept that your life is worth as much as the value you produce. People are deeply ingrained with the idea that if you aren’t part of the production line then you may as well die and get out the way for the next cog.

    To this day, this mentality still benefits the higher up in those societies.

    • @[email protected]
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      That’s not just an idea - its physical reality. You can’t get your physical needs met in old age if you didn’t win the lotto. Suicide is the retirement plan for most of us non-boomers.

      • @agitatedpotato
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        71 year ago

        They’re gonna be shocked when they see the generation without kids and with unstable retirement funds gets too old to care for themselves. Suicide rates are going to explode.

        • @Jessvj93
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          21 year ago

          Also aside from retirement. I see…a lot of people with campers, “homeless” now. Parking their RVs on sides of roads, struggling cause they fell behind on everything HARD. The rates might go up earlier.

          • @Olhonestjim
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            21 year ago

            “They” would be our overlords. The masters of the system into which we are born. The wealthy and powerful. And I suppose they will find out just how little in life they can handle without us workers.

      • @Something_Complex
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        31 year ago

        Don’t worry, climate collapse of all ecosystems is our retirement in like 3 years or something like that