Subj : Re: New to this
To   : Cougar428
From : Arelor
Date : Mon Apr 28 2025 05:57 pm

  Re: Re: New to this
  By: Cougar428 to BORAXMAN on Sun Apr 27 2025 01:31 pm

 >  I understand it's sometimes hard to persevere, but when things look
 >  like they are at their worst - they can only get better. Take a break
 >  and you'll feel better.

This reminds me of a regular subject for conversation that pops up every now and then with aquitances. The subject is the fact I will never get a public retirement pension because by the time I retire, the public retirement funds will be effectively bankrupt.

People usually takes it as a joke. Some guy, one day, told me something that serves as the perfect example of why society is wrecked: he said "Don't worry, what we know is we will all get our retirement pensions."

Such claim is worrysome in itself because it shows people believes stuff won't change even if all evidence points at the fact it will. You can point at the tendencies and strains retirement funds get and also at the fact absolutely nothing is being done or planed to save them - in fact, what we know is in 30 years retirement pensions will allow you to buy a fistful peanuts per month at best. And yet people refuses to openly acknowledge it because the popular thing to do is pretend things will fix themselves.

I think it is soooo much constructive to acknowledge in 30 years retirement funds are gona be deeply fucked up so you can withstand the storm when it hits. Being a prepared pesimist motherfucker beats optimism.

My point is that when things look bad you have to assume they are bad instead of pretend they aren't.


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