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I ponder this question myself on the edge of Gen Z and my life is simplified tremendously if I just essentially pause it in high earning young person mode. Mon
by throwawaysleep 3y ago
I ponder this question myself on the edge of Gen Z and my life is simplified tremendously if I just essentially pause it in high earning young person mode.
Money is abundant for travel and anything I want. I don't need to figure out dating. Means I don't need to figure out everything from conflict resolution to clothing. I don't need to struggle to buy a ton of housing. I have friends/a sister who will have kids I can just play rich uncle to. I can retire decades early due to overemployment and spend an absurd amount of money every year doing whatever I want.
The Peter Pan life has a lot going for it. I am in my mid 20s and my life can essentially be on coast with a ton of fun for the rest of my life.
- throwaway22032 3y agoMany people feel this way in their mid 20s, it often changes when you hit your early to mid 30s. Most of us don't believe that it'll happen to us either. :)
- throwawaysleep 3y agoMaybe, but between dating skills and allocation of spend I may otherwise be committed to the strategy whether I regret it or not.
- throwaway22032 3y agoA skill is something that you can train! We've all been there...
- catchnear4321 3y agoneverland doesn’t have a need for geriatric medicine. you can have a ton of fun for a large portion of the rest of your life, and hopefully something happens such that later life care won’t be a concern. robot caretakers, clinical immortality, or otherwise. this isn’t judgement, that may be the safer gamble. but it is a gamble.
- automatic6131 3y agoIt's strange that other people will pay the burden of raising children that support your retirement. You might think that your earning and savings supports your retirement, but no. It will be the next generation of workers that actualize it. Money is just unit of account, it by itself does not give you a retirement. Only working age, working people. We've found ourselves in a very strange moral hazard. You spend your money to raise kids that will work to earn my savings in my retirement. Hopefully the state can afford your retirement too, but that's unlikely, because no one had children. Because this society sterilizes itself.
- cvhashim04 3y agoImmigrants are carrying the child rearing burden
- lotsofpulp 3y agoSeems like old age social safety nets are a net negative.
- PaulHoule 3y agoYou'll feel different when you are old.
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- throwawaysleep 3y agoDeveloped countries will always have immigration as long as somewhere remains a totalitarian hole. But yes, economically there is significant moral hazard. It is dependent on somewhere being unpleasant enough for people to want to live in a completely different culture.
- remarkEon 3y ago>The Peter Pan life has a lot going for it. Trust me, this feeling passes. You want to be prepared for when it does.