Because Republicans have gutted Social Security and promoted the idea that it is “welfare” it’s individuals fault for not bowing to the capitalist system and taking the big unlubed dick up their ass to work themselves to death, never take time off, never do anything nice for themselves, and basically only put money away for retirement?
What even is this pull yourself by your own bootstraps bullshit from someone lucky enough to have a pension?
Folks should have seen the writing on the walls?
Dude, pay has been stagnant for fifty fucking years or are you not familiar with this chart?
People aren’t getting paid enough to save for fucking retirement, don’t give us this “What are you doing to ensure your ability to retire at 65? Anything?”
Have you heard the joke “My retirement plan is to die in the Water Wars.”
It’s a dark joke borne of desperation because none of us has any money saved for fucking anything, and all of us fear a bleak future where we die in the fucking streets in our old age.
But sure, because we’re not dumping the money we don’t have into an actual ponzi scheme like a fucking 401K, we’re at fault for instead of hoping that our Social Security payments can at least keep food in our bellies when we do inevitably end up on the fucking street. Like literally nobody I know thinks Social Security is enough to live off of and isn’t planning on it, but it’s not like a lot of these people have a lot of fucking options.
Because Republicans have gutted Social Security and promoted the idea that it is “welfare” it’s individuals fault for not bowing to the capitalist system and taking the big unlubed dick up their ass to work themselves to death, never take time off, never do anything nice for themselves, and basically only put money away for retirement?
What even is this pull yourself by your own bootstraps bullshit from someone lucky enough to have a pension?
Folks should have seen the writing on the walls?
Dude, pay has been stagnant for fifty fucking years or are you not familiar with this chart?
People aren’t getting paid enough to save for fucking retirement, don’t give us this “What are you doing to ensure your ability to retire at 65? Anything?”
Have you heard the joke “My retirement plan is to die in the Water Wars.”
It’s a dark joke borne of desperation because none of us has any money saved for fucking anything, and all of us fear a bleak future where we die in the fucking streets in our old age.
But sure, because we’re not dumping the money we don’t have into an actual ponzi scheme like a fucking 401K, we’re at fault for instead of hoping that our Social Security payments can at least keep food in our bellies when we do inevitably end up on the fucking street. Like literally nobody I know thinks Social Security is enough to live off of and isn’t planning on it, but it’s not like a lot of these people have a lot of fucking options.