Poll of the Day > How are you preparing for old age?

(+) Yeah! (+)

We all gotta have a plan.

Here's mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFCmNeTgdrs

;_;

Based on my declining health, I probably don't have to worry about it.

Im doing all sorts of really fun things to shorten my life span and Ive become clinically addicted to high risk scenarios

the girl Im with tried to sick this Christian biker gang on me, she denies it now but she used to be their pass around girl.

trouble is that half of them already know me and are my friends lmao

theyre all sober and honestly decent dudes, weve connected over our joy of violence

Solid_Sonic posted...

Here's mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFCmNeTgdrs

Can you imagine how much overtime she's going to get?

You only get the maximum amount of Social Security if you put off retirement until 70.

SEVENTY

Ugh.

Current plan is:

• Retire at 45
• Stay with city living until kid is out of school
• Move to Hoi An, somewhere in Thailand or Japan
• Grow as old as the world is kind enough to allow me to.

I currently dont have much luxury to "prepare." Everything is so expensive now im not really saving jack. My salary has increased by like 30% in the past 5 years and it just seems to be keeping me up with inflation in all honesty

Kegels

Not getting old

NephalimTechno posted...

the girl Im with tried to sick this Christian biker gang on me, she denies it now but she used to be their pass around girl.

Why would you get into a relationship with a "pass around girl"?

We all gotta die at some point. I want to enjoy life when I'm young and capable. If I made it to 60s I'd be content. I dont want to be 70+ and ****** myself in public and struggling to survive.

I can probably work in my field for another 5-10 years then grab an odd end jobs. If social security isn't around for me then I'm toast. Iv got a 401k and ira but they're nowhere near where they should be for someone my age.

Muscles posted...

Why would you get into a relationship with a "pass around girl"?

shes gorgeous and she cant get enough of me

shes also the perfect partner for me she is a fighter so we can throw down and have an amazing time afterwards

she is masculine as fuck she has these biceps, plus she effortlessly hustles we get everything just handed to us

captpackrat posted...

You only get the maximum amount of Social Security if you put off retirement until 70.

SEVENTY

Ugh.

The thing is, when Social Security was first introduced, life expectancy was only 60 years old.

Social Security was originally meant to be something that only some people would collect (because a lot of people would die before they ever reached 65), and then not for very long. Sure, some people might live into their 90s and subvert the system, but it was never meant to be something that everyone would wind up collecting for like 20+ years.

It also doesn't help that Social Security is basically a pyramid scheme, where the young are paying to support the old, so differences in birth rate mean that a ton of pressure is being put on the young (which is why people have been pointing out that Social Security reform has needed to be a thing for decades now). We just have a really hard time ever touching how it works, because the elderly are one of the strongest voting blocks, and they hate whenever a politician talks about Social Security reform.

Plus, telling people for their entire lives that they can retire and collect Social Security at age 65 and then telling them you've changed the rules is a good way to alienate your entire voter base. Which is why most changes at this point wind up having to be grandfathered in (like if they changed retirement age to 75 tomorrow, they'd probably add a clause that everyone born before 2020 was still valid for the old threshold).

If anything, full retirement age should probably be something closer to 80 now. But that's a hard sell when generations of people have grown up seeing Social Security as something they're entitled to, not just something they might be able to collect if they're lucky.

Me feathers haven't fallen out yet, awwk.

captpackrat posted...

You only get the maximum amount of Social Security if you put off retirement until 70.

SEVENTY

Ugh.

Unless you are in your 60's now, Social Security ain't going to exist when you are 70.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Not getting old

Not dying.

captpackrat posted...

You only get the maximum amount of Social Security if you put off retirement until 70.

SEVENTY

Ugh.

It'll be 85 by the time most of us retire.

A couple pallets of Werther's Originals in my basement.

faramir77 posted...

It'll be 85 by the time most of us retire.

Eh most people wont have a job in a few decades

Just gonna keep on keepin on

Collecting beanie babies and pogs.

OhhhJa posted...

Eh most people wont have a job in a few decades

Your job will be stabbing people with your spear and taking their water.