Summary
Faced with inflation, taxes and concerns over the size of Social Security benefits, most Americans are more afraid of going broke in retirement than they are of death.
In total, 64% of respondents across generations said they are more stressed about running out of funds in their golden years than the prospect of death.
Americans say they need $1.26 million to finance a comfortable retirement, yet the median amount saved is $87,000. “Certainly for boomers…inflation is a big deal.”
The US sees the elderly as as much a problem as the homeless. The system wants these people gone like a 1080p TV. “You’ve outlived your purpose, now get out of here.” And yeah that’s soulless, but is it objectively wrong?
#spoiler: objectionable (cold) ideas that I’m unsure if I agree with on a personal level, but completely rational from an evolutionary and survival standpoint…
Why are we keeping people in homes for 30 years just to melt? Like, leftists complain about the impact of cow farts but we have a massive population of people just waiting to die but we keep feeding, housing and entertaining them not because they’re unwilling to go, but because we’re unwilling to let them go. In my opinion it’s often far more cruel keeping them alive than letting nature take its course. I’m not saying that we should just open the fences and let them roam or anything, but do we really need to be using the resources to keep Alzheimer’s and dementia patients alive? Before you judge me for that statement think about this, are we keeping them alive for THEIR benefit, or ours because we’re too scared to let them go?
It’s not an easy conversation to have, nor am I comfortable with that whole thought map, but it’s probably something that needs to be brought up sooner than later as the population boils over.