Nearly 3 in 5 American workers say they're behind on retirement savings. The other two are working until they drop dead

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• Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I say we stop playing this shareholder profit game and build our own society and make laws against shareholder profits, billionaires, lobbyists, corporations, health insurance, unaffordable housing, jobs that don’t pay a living wage, the two party system, gerrymandering, congressional benefits, congressional stock holding, labor exploitation, kidnapping people with masks on, disappearing people, for profit prisons, concentration camps, and private campaign finance. We can then have a trial for everyone who has committed crimes against the people

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  • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What you are looking for is anarchism. Please, read up on it. Kropotkin is a wonderful starting point. David Graeber’s work is also great; less political and more anthropological but still a great source of information to get started.

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    • Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Maybe temporarily but the idea would be to re establish a functional democracy with checks and balances against corruption

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• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If I’m in a good mood, my retirement plan is to go skydiving.

  If I’m in a bad mood, might try to take a few Nazis down with me.

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  • FRYD@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    With good aim and planning, you could do both.

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    • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And go out like a fucking legend.

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• RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  lol people are constantly surprised when I say I’ll keel over at my job as my “retirement” plan.

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  • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    On behalf of the corpos, we thank you for your dedication.

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  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They will deduct the corpse-mess-cleanup costs from your final paycheck.

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    • RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Good luck. I’ll divorce my spouse and leave anything valuable to them before it gets close to “retirement”.

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• echo@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have plenty of savings for retirement, but I absolutely must have health insurance, so I have to work until I die. This is one of several reasons we don’t have universal health care.

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wait, I thought old people were one of the few groups who at least get something? Namely, Medicare?

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  • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It is absolutely violence that they set us up to have to work forever and then do their best to ensure there are no jobs for us

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• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

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• AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  99% of Americans don’t know how to take their money back from fascists.

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• Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fucking hilarious, you people think youre going to live that long…

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• collapse_already@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m doing both. Hope I die young at my desk to demoralize my coworkers, especially the young ones. Can really harm productivity long term that way.

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• desmosthenes@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  yup

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