Is this what I would be hearing if I actually watched this loser? 'People live until 83-85 and are retiring at 65 and this is a bad thing'? People should literally just work until they drop dead?

Yeah let's just plug them into the matrix and make them power our cities but without the dream world, cause making that costs money.

You'd rob us of our final twenty years of freedom? What is going on? What is wrong with people like this? At 65 my body would be barely a shadow between life and death; I shouldn't have peace in my final twenty years?

Oh easy enough for him to say, he's a millionaire; he can retire NOW if he wanted to. Can you believe most boomers vote for the same people he votes for?

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[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 33 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (7 children)

Working-class people have a shorter life expectancy, about 75 years. That's only 10 years after retirement, though many working-class people end up having to work long past 65. It's very common to hear people in factory/warehouse jobs having the sentiment that "I'll be working till I keel over dead".

This is something you don't realize if you live in a professional class bubble, like I mostly did until college, and like Bennyboy still does.

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Guy I worked with a few years back was in his 50s and the cartilage in his knees was gone and he was waiting for the shop's busy season to be over before he'd be able to take time off for transplant surgery.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

Ow; I've heard of how awfully painful that is.

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