Better than I expected tbf
Yeah, Burning Man ticket prices are fricken huge
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rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
supercargo@r.nf 2 weeks ago
j4k3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hey look! We get off the internet and hang out again. And there is pole dancing!
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
Not the kind of “Dirty Dancing” I was hoping for.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, well those same parents are also partially responsible for making that future come to be.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
It’s not boomers vs. millenials, it’s billionaires vs. commoners/workers/have-nots.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s that Boomers have participated in, and been behind the wheel, of most of the stupid, enabling moments of the 20th century. They built this world and got pissed when inequality they built to lock up money for themselves wasn’t sustainable.
Then they blame everyone else because they have no self-reflection due to lead levels in their blood causing cognitive impairment and aggressive behavior. My favorite was a meme all over facebook saying “Back in my day we didn’t have plastic soda bottles…” Yeah, who TF changed it, genius? YOU ALL. Sure wasn’t me running all that stuff when I was 6 years old.
MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Boomers have supported, and voted for the status quo and these billionaires for decades upon decades at this point. And are still supporting the dictator Trump. So yeah your take is bullshit.
Faydaikin@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
But it’s also the Boomers. Although they are slowly dying out.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Silver spraypaint doesn’t pay for itself.
WITNESS ME!!!
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
doleo@lemmy.one 2 weeks ago
People are still car dependent in that future? Fuck it, I’m out.
Faydaikin@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
Yeh, but they are mostly used as weapons.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Look at those ridiculously large pickup trucks and SUVs - they’re already used as weapons! There’s been an uptick of people intentionally driving into crowds, amok-style, in recent years, too.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Buy fuel, I guess ?
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Gasoline is only good for about a year before it starts to degrade. You can use fuel additives, or non-ethanol gas but you’re maybe maybe at absolute best getting 3 years out of it before it will gum up your engine.
The Mad Max future is not going to last long
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Afaik the mad max future they refine their own fuel.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
This is why I’m buying crude oil and investing in small scale refinement
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
buy non-petroleum-based-fuels? what’s the going rate on uranium anyways
SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
And windshields/screens.
As well as tires, lubricants, tools, etc I guess. People tearing around the desert in vehicles with flawless glass is maybe the most unrealistic part of that image for me.
mtpender@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
“WITNESS ME!”
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Put aside some *antibiotics.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The “much effects, less story” version of a “much story, less effects” film.
ExcaliburtheHero@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s why I don’t save money who knows when a war will break out
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Make sure you put some OIL aside for the future.
“What… you mean like salad oil?”
And my work here is done, I am OUTTA HERE!
“Wait! Did you mean like olive or peanut oil or…?”
(crickets(forever))Enzyoo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Incest in Aqua Cola
CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
As long as I can be the Guitar Guy. I’ll bring my own axe.
BakerBagel@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Back when i had jobs that had 401k plans, all the calculators said i needed over $1 million to retire at age 70. Meanwhile i was living paycheck to paycheck trying to put something in there. How tf am i supposed to squirrel away 7 figures when i have mever made $40,000 in a year?
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
And that’s just one’s savings without kids.
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Honestly having kids, and returning to multi-generational homes might be the only way one is retiring these days.
Good luck on that one.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Compound investment is supposed to do a lot of the heavy lifting. At a 7% rate of return, your money doubles every 10 years. So, assuming you set aside $6k of that $40k/year ($500/mo), starting at age 22, you’d have $1M at age 60 and $2.2M at age 70
www.bankrate.com/…/save-a-million-calculator/
But here’s the trick… You’re looking down the barrel of 40 years of inflation. So, if you’re earning $40k in year one (let’s say, the year 2000) and you’ve been on the job for 25 years without getting a raise, inflation has reduced the real value of that income by roughly one half.
On the flip side, let’s assume you’re keeping up with inflation (and that $500 you’re setting aside is increasing at the same rate). Then the math gets more complicated and I can’t help you anymore. But the point is you get to $1M sooner, simply because $1M in 2060 is worth a lot less than $1M in 2000.
Had a broker explain that - at my current rate of savings - I’d be looking at a $4M retirement account by age 62. But then he dumped some ice water over my head when he noted “That’s only going to be worth around $1.1M in modern dollars by then”. Suggested I actually up my savings, because $1M only really feels like a lot until you try to live on it for the rest of your life.
BakerBagel@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
I am lucky if i have $300 in my bank account after all my expenses each month, and i live in a cheap town working a 9-5 job. I have no health insurance and have had to cash out multiple 401k’s to cover emergency expenses in the past 4 years. Saving for the future is an absolute joke since i can’t even afford to live today.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s why we need to have a conversation about taxing millionaires when everyone yells “tax the rich!”
A million may be more than what a lot of people have, but it’s probably not even a number people can even retire with considering taxes and inflation. Two to 3 million might be a start, 4 million would be ok today, but when people retire in 10, 20, 30+ years from now? Who knows what that will be worth.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Quit with the avocado toast and Starbucks. According to Sociopathic Oligarchs, that seems to have been a bigger factor in their wealth than their multi-generational inheritance.
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Kill your masters and plunder their hordes. I’m told their scales have a weak point on the belly.