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  • Part of it is because you still need a gig to keep the retirement funds rolling. You don't want to live it out on pea soup and bread.

    Part of it is because after a certain point every bit of your body, from your bones to your brains, is only available on a Use It or Lose It basis with no warranty for service blackouts.

    And part of it is because, and l guess this is due to the collapse of the extended-family model, lots of people don't have anyone or thing to go home to; they're divorced or widowed, kids have moved out, and their social network has literally died out.

    Towards the end of his life my father only had ONE surviving peer from grade school. Imagine how it is to call your only surviving friend on a regular basis and to wonder, each time, if today's the day you learn you've already heard their voice for the last time.

  • Disagree-ish.

    I would suggest that, instead, after a certain age or catastrophic loss (such as that of a lifetime partner) we should all be receiving regular competency / cognizants evaluations. I think that compulsive retirement would be dehumanizing, a potential trigger for senility, dementia, or suicide, and a negligent misappropriation of the experience and institutional knowledge, that many of our seniors hold.

  • What do you do with the democratic process

    There's more than one way to run a democracy, and more than one way to tally votes; it just so happens that the way we're currently doing it —First Past The Post Voting— is utter shit; it's the lynchpin of the two party system and systemic corruption.

    If we commit grassroots focus to electoral reforms in favor of Ranked Choice Voting then all these insidious actors will find power to be much more slippery.

  • Don't be surprised.

    Everyone here is either indoctrinated enough to be here for it, powerful enough to be above it, or disassociated enough to endure it.

    It's just what happens after 22 years of social shock doctrine (I made that term up. I will not elaborate. Ama closed).

  • So throw a few people under the bus and use that to make people believe "it is getting better" as you continue to smear shit on yourself.

    This made my brain generate a picture of someone standing naked before a horrified crowd and moaning out, "It's getting better!" as they smear feces on their body.