Relevant, perhaps?And being that it's French, it might shed a little light on what it's like to work there (and why there's such a huge fuss over retirement age).https://www.youtube.com/wat...
'Member when you would read articles about what THE FUTURE was supposed to be like - work for 2-3 hours a day, meals in pill form, robot butlers, flying cars!
Yeah every once in a while I remember that I should probably look into elder care insurance for me and the Mrs or resign myself to dying in a ditch somewhere
Retirement is when you get more control over how you spend your time. If you have to sell your time in exchange for compensation you need to survive, then it’s work. Time is the currency. Money is just the abstract representation we use to disguise how much time-theft is occurring. The US has a major problem with the concept of “quality of life”. Even if you were okay with selling off more of your time, if your remaining time is of better quality, it makes up for that difference. But our current system doesn’t want us to have time, money, or quality of life. Those things are treated as high-end luxuries and only people of “merit” are “successful” enough to have earned them. I don’t expect to have a retirement and I’m 45. I’ve worked since I was 16. I expect that at some point my hubby’s body will finally give out and his pension will be only enough to support his basic needs. I will be forced to carry both the weight of my own aging body as well as anything his pension doesn’t cover. Social Security will be useless. I’m painfully aware of quality of life. It’s something you start to pay attention to more once you get injuries that change how you can participate. Time changes in value. Working out of necessity until you die isn’t something that should happen in modern society. It certainly shouldn’t be the standard.
Not being ageist, (no really!) but anyone who turns 75 in the Senate or House should not be eligible to run again. They should go hang out with grandkids etc...
Disappointing takes on this. Justice Bader Ginsberg is still the only woman to serve out a lifetime appointment on SCOTUS. I guess it doesn't matter that much to Pennacchia and Robinson. There should be term limits to SCOTUS, no doubt, but there aren't.
And Senator Feinstein? She was reelected by the entire state of California, and eeeeeeveryone know how old she is, and did when they reelected her.
These are unfortunate truths from my perch but I'm not interested in partaking in asking Democratic women to step aside. There's plenty of terrible men we could do away with, let's start with the white ones.
Good knows trying to have a real career and learn enough to invest what I could for got swamped by actual life. I'd swap regretful reflection ("great learning experience") for having the mortgage paid off, in a heartbeat.
Ditto.
Relevant, perhaps?And being that it's French, it might shed a little light on what it's like to work there (and why there's such a huge fuss over retirement age).https://www.youtube.com/wat...
Agreed, any job that a 90 something with dementia can do can’t possibly be an actual job.
Watching people like Ted Cruz, Chuck Grassley, and Lindsey Graham play at government you can't convince me it's a difficult job.
The Greatest Generation/Early Boomer demographic did a great job of climbing the ladder then pulling it up after them
'Member when you would read articles about what THE FUTURE was supposed to be like - work for 2-3 hours a day, meals in pill form, robot butlers, flying cars!
Yeah every once in a while I remember that I should probably look into elder care insurance for me and the Mrs or resign myself to dying in a ditch somewhere
I've never understood people that don't know what to do if they retired. I have loads of ideas.
There is literally no one in Congress that is struggling to make ends meet.
Maybe that's why they can't relate to us.
Retirement is when you get more control over how you spend your time. If you have to sell your time in exchange for compensation you need to survive, then it’s work. Time is the currency. Money is just the abstract representation we use to disguise how much time-theft is occurring. The US has a major problem with the concept of “quality of life”. Even if you were okay with selling off more of your time, if your remaining time is of better quality, it makes up for that difference. But our current system doesn’t want us to have time, money, or quality of life. Those things are treated as high-end luxuries and only people of “merit” are “successful” enough to have earned them. I don’t expect to have a retirement and I’m 45. I’ve worked since I was 16. I expect that at some point my hubby’s body will finally give out and his pension will be only enough to support his basic needs. I will be forced to carry both the weight of my own aging body as well as anything his pension doesn’t cover. Social Security will be useless. I’m painfully aware of quality of life. It’s something you start to pay attention to more once you get injuries that change how you can participate. Time changes in value. Working out of necessity until you die isn’t something that should happen in modern society. It certainly shouldn’t be the standard.
I'm guessing Jack Textiera, everyone's favorite 21 year old inexplicably trusted with national secrets, may be going away for a long, long time
Not being ageist, (no really!) but anyone who turns 75 in the Senate or House should not be eligible to run again. They should go hang out with grandkids etc...
Take a fucking hint, Grassley.
Disappointing takes on this. Justice Bader Ginsberg is still the only woman to serve out a lifetime appointment on SCOTUS. I guess it doesn't matter that much to Pennacchia and Robinson. There should be term limits to SCOTUS, no doubt, but there aren't.
And Senator Feinstein? She was reelected by the entire state of California, and eeeeeeveryone know how old she is, and did when they reelected her.
These are unfortunate truths from my perch but I'm not interested in partaking in asking Democratic women to step aside. There's plenty of terrible men we could do away with, let's start with the white ones.
This is some bullshit, man.
Now that sounds like a good setup.
Good knows trying to have a real career and learn enough to invest what I could for got swamped by actual life. I'd swap regretful reflection ("great learning experience") for having the mortgage paid off, in a heartbeat.