Americans Embracing Possibility of Living to 100, Many Expecting Over Three Decades of Retirement
Americans Embracing Possibility of Living to 100, Many Expecting Over Three Decades of Retirement
In this economy?!
The economy is actually some of the best ever we've had. Really good real wage earnings growth
Who did they poll for this? No one I know wants to live past 70 let alone to 100 and absolutely no one I know expects to retire EVER.
I don't believe in an afterlife. I'll take as many years as I can, even if they're shitty years.
But yeah, I don't expect to retire.
I used to think like that, but the older I get the more I'm starting to think otherwise.
I'm not super old yet but I've had a pretty eventful life and was probably a bit too hard on my physical form when I was younger and considered myself indestructible. Now I have back pain, knee issues, pulmonary fibrosis (scarred lungs from dusty environments), messed up right wrist, missing part of two fingers on my left hand, deteriorating eyesight etc etc.
I'm not wishing for death or anything, but there starts to be a point where you really don't want to keep slowly getting worse to the point you can't do what you love anymore and you're just a burden to others. That becomes the time that you just want that last big sleep to finally get here.
Now if we could fix all these common ailments and keep our bodies like we were back in our twenties, that would be a different story...
I think I would pass on shitty years seeing what mom went through. Of course seeing my friend die in his mid 50s was a suck fest also.
Who knows what time we have left all I know is spending most of it working feels like a colossal waste.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHAAAAAAAAAA!!!
wtf is retirement?
Something we won't get to do in order for boomers to get all the things.
Uh pass. Who the fuck can afford that? If I were going to live to 100, I'd have to work until I was about 90. And with climate change, I seriously doubt I want to be around in 60 years.
What is this, a poll answered by senior citizens??
I'd rather retire at 60 and live to 75 than retire at 70 and live to 100, assuming I'll have the same amount of money to inherit for the next generation. After the age of 80, I'd be so old that I'd have no energy to do anything.
Here’s all the data provided on the survey.
And here is Morning Consult. If it’s anything like the surveys I take regularly from a similar company, it’s meaningless junk that doesn’t really tell you much.
Man, I'm not even sure I want to live past 60.
Americans? Our life expectancy us decreasing and was even before COVID.
It's probably true for a few fortunate souls.
The rest of us will simpy either die before pension age or keep working into old age, again until death.
I hope to be part of the ones that die before it gets to mad max levels of insanity.
Hey maybe we will just suffer from illness in our final decades, instead!
Decades? Who can afford that much time?
If you invest 5% of every paycheck, you will have enough to retire on. This is quite achievable for the vast majority of individuals who want to achieve it. Compounding gains are a huge boon and is why investing in something like an index fund should be started as early as possible.
Nearly 70% of Americans are currently living paycheck to paycheck. How are they supposed to save up or invest? One medical emergency could wipe out all that imaginary savings too.
Hmm yes living below the poverty line does indeed leave me with enough money to invest in a retirement for sure uh huh yupperino
Cries into wage garnishment papers from not being able to afford private student loan payments
5% seems achievable, looking from the outside, but we’ve gone through several decades of proving that it does not actually happen enough., when people are trying to afford their immediate lives