I’m a regular guy, I’m about 23 years old, I work at a job with a flexible schedule, the job is more or less acceptable, although sometimes it’s very annoying because of the extra repairs. Lately, I’ve been really wanting to go to festivals with cosplayers and stuff, but time is tight, and because of AI and data centers, there is even less time than there could be. And I never even went on a date, I constantly postponed everything for later, and now it seems to me that everything is lost.
It’s not stupid, because not preparing for the future is never going to benefit you. It only hurts you. Not preparing for your future is the #1 thing people regret from their youths. Come 40, you’ll regret every cent you waste on stuff you don’t need versus your retirement plan.
Despite your stance, you’ve yet to show how giving money to a corp/gov’t is “preparing for the future”, and I’m not even touching the patronizing assumption that I’ve not in fact passed 40 quite some years ago. Giving anecdotal platitudes is not providing supporting evidence to your argument, FYI.
Newsflash: this “retirement plan” you speak of has always hinged on the assumption that future generations will “buy” your way into it, and at a higher price than you initially balked at. It’s a wholly unsustainable model, and has been from the start. It’s still a grift, just a long one, and the poors are the fodder/marks.
No. Your plan is frippery and hope. Get right, get wise, stop lying to yourself, gramps. There is no retirement waiting, and the best you can dream of is maybe a short bit of it before it gutters and snuffs out.
Good luck, citizen.