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It is unfortunate that the modern retirement, in the US, is "work until you're incapable of working", then survive your last lingering years using up whatever s

• dragonwriter 3y ago
  > Yes, it was always thus for the poor, but the poor is now almost all of us. The poor has, for all of history, always been almost all of us. > Whatever happened to the middle class? The petit bourgeois middle class of capitalist(-ish, in the case of the modern mixed economy, but it does not differ on this point) society has always been a narrow segment, it is “middle” between the working class and the haut bourgeoisie, not “middle” in the sense of median or modal experience. The working class have generally been insecure; there was a brief period of broader, particularly white, working class prosperity post-WWII that the right, particular since Reagan, has both attacked via anti-labor policy and used the effects of their attacks on the White working class to fuel racial resentment that they’ve used as the cover for further attacks on the working class behind racist appeals.