• @LovableSidekick
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    62 hours ago

    I’ve never understood people who get bored in retirement. I looked forward to it from the very start of my career, and now that I am retired I’ve gotten so into hobbies and interests that it feels like there still isn’t enough time for everything.

    • @[email protected]
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      359 minutes ago

      Here’s to hoping we still have the physical ability to engage with those hobbies and interests.

  • @[email protected]
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    94 hours ago

    Gaming and smoking a shit ton of weed in retirement is gonna be great… if we still have social security and access to 401k’s at that point lmao

    • @Lucky_777
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      34 hours ago

      If they cut the system, we’ll get the money in our pay. So at least we can control it. Just don’t spend it on games that will hit your backlog and sit for years. I’m personally guilty btw.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 hour ago

        Just don’t spend it on games that will hit your backlog and sit for years.

        What do you think I plan on doing in my retirement?

  • Bakkoda
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    13 hours ago

    I’ll restart and 100% stardew valley or die trying. Always wanted to commit to it, never did.

  • madjo
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    238 hours ago

    Retirement home LAN parties… That’s the dream

    • @Quadhammer
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      48 hours ago

      Hopefully all your friends are still around

        • @Ifera
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          77 hours ago

          You can make some at true retirement home. Sad part is, our generation isn’t getting any of those, most of us will be working till we drop.

  • @satans_methpipe
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    25 hours ago

    You can start right now. Kill your boss. Quit ya job.

    • @[email protected]
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      Kinda hard to have the retirement OP is suggesting when you run out of money in a month lol But I get your sentiment

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    And then you die because a blood clot that formed in your leg came loose and shot up into your brain, because you’ve been sitting for weeks playing videogames.

  • @[email protected]
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    68 hours ago

    By the time I retire I hope we’re in or moving towards a mix of solarpunk and star trek like utopia

  • @[email protected]
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    510 hours ago

    Just plug my old ass into the matrix. If I live to see 80 we’ll probably have some kind of full dive VR by that point. Or at least something approaching it.

      • @Duamerthrax
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        69 hours ago

        The PS9 services for the PSN have been discontinued. Please upgrade to the PS11 to continue using your endocrine system.

  • @[email protected]
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    1613 hours ago

    I don’t think any amount of achievable retirement savings is enough to give me confidence that I could cover escalating health care costs enough that I could retire. Even if I had $10M in the bank, I would worry that the cost of health care will rise fast enough to impoverish me.

    • @[email protected]
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      147 minutes ago

      You just move to a county with actual Healthcare as part of your retirement. Won’t even need 5 mil.

    • @tburkhol
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      512 hours ago

      If you make it to Medicare age, it gets a lot less stressful. eg: my folks have had 4 knees replaced with very little out-of-pocket cost. There’s still supplemental insurance, but Medicare, not the profit-driven insurance company, determines what gets covered, and they mostly listen to doctors. There’s always edge cases, where some treatment might not be covered, but I feel like those are uncommon.

      One way or the other, my ultimate health care plan is 9mm.

        • @LePoisson
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          28 hours ago

          Maybe in our lifetime we will see an expansion of Medicare to be a single payer system for all Americans as a publicly available option (ie: the minimum standards other insurance would need to meet to be competitive).

          That would be nice. Idk I’m just hopeful in like 25 years we may see some real change ushered in when it comes to that. Probably very naively hopeful but I have to at least occasionally believe in a better future.

          • @[email protected]
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            25 hours ago

            I get more pessimistic every year and I started out extremely pessimistic. I think humanity going extinct in my lifetime is more likely than the US getting single payer in my lifetime.

            • @LePoisson
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              14 hours ago

              Humans won’t ever go extinct save some absolute batshit scenario that wipes the world completely clean of all life, give or take.

              We’re too resourceful and we like fucking too much for humans to go extinct but it could be a pretty bleak existence for the human race at some point.

              • @[email protected]
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                24 hours ago

                Nevertheless, I stand by my view. We are already trying our hardest to make the atmosphere replicate the atmosphere of the K-T extinction.

      • @InputZero
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        210 hours ago

        I’m surprised that Trump doesn’t use Obama care to prescribe 9mm medication to people. It’s a lot cheaper to pay a one time cost of a 9mm that reoccurring costs of medication. Think about it, health care costs plumit and firearms sales skyrocket. It’s a republican wet dream.

  • @[email protected]
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    2618 hours ago

    Everyone I know who retired is at least as busy as before.
    The notion that without a job, people just sit around bored, is capitalist propaganda.

    • @[email protected]
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      15 minutes ago

      I somehow end up busier whenever I have long stretches of time off. Idle hands create hundreds of projects.

    • @[email protected]
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      913 hours ago

      It’s insane to me that people think they will somehow go braindead the minute they don’t have a job. Is that how they act once they get home after a long and exhausting day of labouring? Just sit down in the couch and die, staring at the white wallpaper until they collapse? From my only related experience with actually existing in this life, I fucking hate how I don’t have time for anything, ANYTHING, ever, because work work work, only to go home and work work work some more as an adult with actual responsibilities. Retirement ya, i might get a quarter of my shit in order, at best, but I’d probably just stock it with more responsibilities that I really don’t have time for, but a window of more time means a window of thinking about more shit that has been neglected or needs doing because things always do.

      • comfy
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        Is that how they act once they get home after a long and exhausting day of labouring? Just sit down in the couch and die, staring at the white wallpaper until they collapse?

        Replace the wallpaper with a television and this is awfully familiar in my neighborhood.

      • @[email protected]
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        39 hours ago

        A decent amount of people really do just park their ass on the couch and cease existing. I’ve watched more than a few people retire and die shortly after from having nothing to live for.

        • @jpeps
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          I noticed over covid that many people were telling me that they were happy to be working again after being furloughed (temporarily paused employment in the UK) because they’d been losing their minds with nothing to do. I couldn’t understand it, I was busy and really happy.

        • @[email protected]
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          18 hours ago

          What tying your entire purpose in life to how much you can enrich capitalists does to a motherfucker.

  • @[email protected]
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    601 day ago

    I dunno. I game less and less every year. I think I’ll probably just play the odd n64 game by the time I retire.