There're still older Civilizations I haven't played so I'm not worried
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I'm 55, and this is my retirement plan.
In another screenshot I once read "my retirement plan is to die in the socialist revolution" and I think that's exactly what I hope for
That's been my plan for years, but now it's morphed into something more like, "my retirement plan is to die in the American underground fighting the local Nazis."
I plan to die fighting for the revolution.
Don’t worry. They gonna raise the retirement age.
I wouldn't say it's my plan, but it's an option I'm keeping in account
Mine is more “I don’t plan to live that long anyway”
65? 65?!? My expected retirement age is 7-goddamn-2 and considering that's in the 2050s shit could happen to that plan in the meantime....
Mine is more 'why bother when inflation will eat the value away'
Got plenty in my retirement pot, but I've been saving up bottle caps just in case.
So it's people like you who's caps we'll mysteriously find inside of a pre-war safe??
Have fatal illness. 2 or so years left. Suckers!
I admire that you've got a sense of humour about it. How are you holding up?
the drugs are still sort of working.
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It needs Just 1 bullet in trumps head.... FCK America.
But the American ist Like:
100% braindead
Someone else just as bad would replace him. It's supported by public sentiment, he was voted in.
I don't think you'll find anyone with Trump's "charisma" that quickly who would appeal to the MAGA crowd in the same way. Of course, I could be wrong about that.
Trump has as much charisma as a chewed bubble gum. I don’t understand why that many people voted him. Twice.
His speech patterns and dialogue match up surprisingly well with Jim Jones of the famous Jonestown Massacre. Once somebody like that has a following, it doesn't matter how crazy he gets, the diehard believers will literally die hard for the guy.
The first campaign drew the cult together from a cult that was already there (a groomed voter base who will vote Republican no matter who) and the first term bonded them together against an enemy (everybody with common sense) while the Republican party and the entire media insulated them from how bad he is. There were some people who saw what he did and turned away - he got less votes this time around than he did last time, and that's even with the questions of election interference that keep cropping up - but that just means that the people left are the crazies who would defend him even if he personally started shooting up schools.
American politics is so screwed up that most people have little clue of what exactly happens in this country. A coworker of mine just the other day was effectively saying that daddy Trump had to hurt us because big-meanie Biden ruined the government deficit.
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There's a part of me that agrees, trump has a wild hold on the maga crowd. Buuuuut I also have trouble thinking of something that would make it easier for some non trump to channel that same energy than an assassination.
I think there would be a civil war first and then a new system would be established if the USA didn't splinter. It would initially be worse in terms of violence, but in the long term the fascism that Trump imposes will be more brutal. However, Russia, China, North Korea, etc. would take direct advantage of these circumstances. It's all just absolute shit.
It would create a power vacuum, and the traditional constitutional democratic norms and processes have already been destroyed.
So it would be a literal bloodbath.
And it probably would not end well for America.
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It needs Just 1 bullet in trumps head… FCK America.
I mean, sure, that would be nice.
But the idea that Fascism is just one man using mind control powers on the rest of the country and if you get rid of that singular embodiment of evil the rest of the fascists will disappear in a puff of logic is... flawed.
If Trump had eaten a bullet in 2024, JD Vance would be President right now and nothing would be meaningfully different. The rot is systemic. It isn't even contained to the GOP. Go check out "Welcomefest" and the continued Liberalist campaign to transform the Democratic Party into a rebranded Dick Cheney style of neoconservatism by courting Silicon Valley goons who are on the fence about Trump.
This doesn't end with one guy going away. This doesn't end with 100 guys going away. This ends when the top tier of mega-wealthy families no longer have an incentive to kill millions of people in order to maintain their elite positions.
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the next time you think getting rid of Trump will solve society's problems, just remember that Trump Jr will most likely run for president at some point in your lifetime
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I'm putting my trust in my bottle cap collection.
My retirement plan is similar but it's more that Climate Crisis is going to cook us all alive before I need to retire.
I've been hoping for that big EMP from the sun I keep getting told about.
Or the poles swapping.
With Germans?
Yeah, let Poland invade someone for once!
The best advice I heard in my 20s don't spend your raise. If you can live of X and now you make Y, still live of X and put everything you don't spend in a few ETFs. Don't try to be smart en beat the market, don't buy stocks, etc.
Just 3 or 4 ETFs that cover the world. Or if you want to be smart read up on the permanent portfolio or all weather portfolio.
You don't need a more expensive car if your current car still works, you don't need a new phone every 2 years, etc. Buy what can't be fixed, don't pay for upgrades that are not really going to improve your life.
Also buy things that don't expire (toiletpaper, dishwasher soap, etc) in bulk when the offer it really good.
You don't have to live as a bum but you can still make sure you don't overspend.
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Societal collapse or probable future health issues, either way (or both)
Civilization is resilient
It wont end just because of a couple problems that could kill billions of people
Honestly, true.
We are indeed going to face massive, catastrophic changes to society broadly.
But they will take place over such timespans that most people are just going to get used to things being shitty and the death-tolls from storms, flooding, starvation, forced-migration... it will just be more dull noise in the background for decades and decades.
The "nothing ever happens" shitheads are in the middle of things happening, but our attention-spans have been so thoroughly eroded that people don't think anything is real unless it literally shakes them out of their bed.
People also have this idea that collapse is this overnight thing, like a zombie apocalypse. But while that does sometimes happen historically, a gradual degradation is much more common and realistic. What that actually looks like on the ground is just a general decline in the standard of living all around. In an advanced capitalist economy, we rarely have actual shortages, where the supply of goods simply runs out. Rather, whenever the supply of anything gets tight, the price soars until demand drops.
As things degrade, everything's just going to become ever more expensive. People used to eating beef will have to switch to chicken. Then they'll switch to tofu. Eventually just rice and beans. And as prices rise, the world's poorest, a few million at a time, will find that they can't even afford rice and beans, and no one will be able to afford to give them food aid either.
Housing will gradually become ever-more expensive. We have a finite capacity to construct housing. And as natural disasters destroy more and more homes and infrastructure, we have to spend more and more of that finite capacity just rebuilding what we've lost, rather than constructing new homes. This drives the cost up ever-higher. People switch from owning their home, to renting an apartment, to living with roommates, to abandoning the nuclear family entirely and living in large extended households again.
This is what collapse actually looks like. Prices on everything slowly rise until we look around and realize that the global population has been cut in half by starvation and all but the riches survivors are living in penury.
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My retirement plan is to suicide bomb some government structure.
Narrator: It didn't.
The retweeters went on to live in an even more dystopian future where money still exists, but with no savings to endure a strike.
The true hope is a horizontal power structure.
Money can always be made worthless, so the key to post depression bubble economics will be commodities and the ability to earn an income.
So your saying your well on your way then..
well.. certainly not in so many words. but I definitely don't expect to get that old.
I'll look pretty dumb if it should happen.
that just sounds like bad financial discipline with extra steps
Wasn't this the boomer retirement plan? Societal collapse takes a lot longer than one would think.
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