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When you can retire depends on how little you need. Though, of course, if you're living from investment income you should be aware you're living off the work o
by onraglanroad 11mo ago
When you can retire depends on how little you need.
Though, of course, if you're living from investment income you should be aware you're living off the work of other people.
- anonymars 11mo agoUnless you're churning your own butter and manufacturing your own solar panels, isn't retirement inherently living off other people regardless of income?
- reactordev 11mo agoIsn’t social security living off the backs of other people too?
- anonymars 11mo agoChildhood too, no? Maybe it turns out life was the original "pyramid scheme"
- reactordev 11mo agoChildhood was that new car smell and your parents dreaming of the kind of equity they’ll get only to get frustrated with all the maintenance.
- onraglanroad 11mo agoYes, they both are, it's just less obvious for investment income.
- incompatible 11mo agoIsn't getting wages in a wealthy country so that you can afford a multiple of work hours from poorly-paid people elsewhere inherently living off other people?
- anonymars 11mo agoIf one makes more as a software developer than a bus driver, it doesn't seem like location was the factor Isn't the logical extension that everyone lives off other people? This was basically the point of "you didn't build that" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_didn%27t_build_that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_didn%27t_build_that)
- Lapsa 11mo agoyou want to live off another people to some degree. single farmer can feed hundreds - there is no need for everyone to do everything. which of course raises societal fairness and trust issues
- ndsipa_pomu 11mo agoIt's just slavery with extra steps