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[–] randomjoh@lemm.ee 3 points 44 minutes ago

If you retire with no SS, medicare, an insurance that is required to cover you, medicaid to keep the doors open for even a retirement home to care for you, and your 401K is destroyed from the plunging depression that's on the rise... it might be cool to worry a bit.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I'll be riding my bike till I feel and die.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 22 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] menemen@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 hours ago

Yeah, I also have 5 hobbies and many more interests. I am only scared that I don't have enough energy left in me once I retire.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 11 points 18 hours ago

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

[–] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

it's because they had enjoyable work. not the slave trade were in today.

[–] menemen@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago

Lol to thinking that it was better. Capitalism was always terrible for normal people.

But many people just don't have a lot of hobbies. Change is also scary for many people.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 34 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Retirement home LAN parties... That's the dream

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 2 points 53 minutes ago

Invites all around! Remind me in 20 years.

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 3 points 8 hours ago
[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 5 points 17 hours ago

That’s what I keep going for

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hopefully all your friends are still around

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That might be a problem. What friends?

[–] Ifera@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day 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.

[–] elatedCatfish@lemm.ee 12 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] CMonster@discuss.online 1 points 3 hours ago

That sounds like what I do now except I have to start at 4:45 instead of when I wake up...

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AlwaysRushesIn@lemm.ee 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago

Right. Some people update their 401k, in over here updating my back log....only 40 more years until I retire. Or die at 90.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 6 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 8 points 22 hours ago

My father is retired and still needs to use PowerPoint. He is very bad at retirement.

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 day ago (8 children)

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.

[–] NewDayRocks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 17 hours ago

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

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[–] x4740N@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

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

[–] LeLachs@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Error connecting to PSN Servers" (no longer exist)

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[–] AshLassay@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 14 points 1 day ago
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[–] superkret@feddit.org 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago (10 children)

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@lemmy.ml 5 points 21 hours ago

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.

[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 3 points 21 hours ago

To be fair, that is exactly what I do some days after work because this shit is needlessly exhausting. I think I need like a year of sickly Victorian style bedrest because I have been so burned out for so long that I don't really have much of a sense of self at this point.

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