The meaning of life?

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• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  0-10 years.

  You can die during the first 60 at any time, never making it.

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  • EonNShadow@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or never retire due to circumstances outside your control in your working years

    40+ years is a long time for shit to go wrong

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  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Die before retirement? Well that’s one way to escape wage slavery 😄

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  • expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    think about this when looking at my pay tub and seeing the deduction % i chose for retirement savings i may never use

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    • Smeagol666@crazypeople.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      At least it will give your children or siblings something to fight over when you die.

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• DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How selfish of you to deny your fortune to be able to contribute to the wealth of the chosen few!

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• laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  60 is life expectancy 50% don’t make it to 60

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  • Hapankaali@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Life expectancy globally is around 71 years. Only a handful of countries (Afghanistan and a few sub-Saharan countries) have a life expectancy below 60.

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• lemmyman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This framework fails to consider all the time between those main activities, which we spend shitposting.

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  • rucksack@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Indeed, most days consist of 8 hours working, 8 hours sleeping and 8 hours shitposting.

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• Bruncvik@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Free? That’s when your kids send your grandkids for you to take care of. Ungrateful bastards…

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• Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  40 years? Try 50+

  I started working at 14-15, and I’ll be happy if I can retire at 65

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• MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What?!

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    • lemmyman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s not my job to educate you

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• pmk@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space ⁨24⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Image

    Credit: Sidney Harris

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• AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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)

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• gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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?

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  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    36 years as a walking corpse that society no longer wants, outside your grandkids. So you have to perpetuate the cycle to feel anything. Oh, and some beautiful landscape and nice things you can buy, again, while you rot away, and no one cares what you have at all, no one to share with.

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  • Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • lemmyman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Look up “FIRE” for “financial independence, retire early.”

      tl;dr - save a larger chunk of your salary and invest it become part of the owner class, living off the interest, dividends, and capital gains surplus value generated by the working class.

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    • gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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!

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• brownsugga@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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

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