40 Hopefully!
The meaning of life?
Submitted 5 hours ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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4everjugon@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
0-10 years.
You can die during the first 60 at any time, never making it.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 15 minutes ago
I’ve watched multiple co-workers not make it to retirement.
Really makes you want to keep doing it.
EonNShadow@pawb.social 5 hours ago
Or never retire due to circumstances outside your control in your working years
40+ years is a long time for shit to go wrong
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Die before retirement? Well that’s one way to escape wage slavery 😄
expatriado@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
think about this when looking at my pay tub and seeing the deduction % i chose for retirement savings i may never use
Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 4 hours ago
At least it will give your children or siblings something to fight over when you die.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 43 minutes ago
The meaning of life? Learning to enjoy it. Realizing that even though it’s a grind sometimes every instance is something like a miracle because given all the things that had to align for this moment to occur from a biological scale to a cosmic scale and all at the right time, the probability that you’d be reading this message is so incredibly close to nil and yet it is happening.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 5 hours ago
How selfish of you to deny your fortune to be able to contribute to the wealth of the chosen few!
lemmyman@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
This framework fails to consider all the time between those main activities, which we spend shitposting.
rucksack@feddit.org 3 hours ago
Indeed, most days consist of 8 hours working, 8 hours sleeping and 8 hours shitposting.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Don’t forget sleeping and drinking.
Which we do in order to make the working hours bearable.
Bruncvik@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Free? That’s when your kids send your grandkids for you to take care of. Ungrateful bastards…
salty_chief@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Study never stops though. So technically study would be 60yrs. Shit, I studied more in the US Coast Guard than in school!
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
40 years? Try 50+
I started working at 14-15, and I’ll be happy if I can retire at 65
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 22 minutes ago
I’m expecting 13-73.
laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
60 is life expectancy 50% don’t make it to 60
Hapankaali@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Life expectancy globally is around 71 years. Only a handful of countries (Afghanistan and a few sub-Saharan countries) have a life expectancy below 60.
laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
Yes I am old I forget
four@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
I think you’re confusing average with median. If 90% of people make it to 70, but 10% die before reaching 5 years, you’d have average life expectancy at birth of about 60, but 90% of the people will live longer. That’s why prehistoric life expectancy values are misleading. It wasn’t that uncommon to reach an older age, just a lot more humans didn’t survive the first few years
pmk@piefed.ca 5 hours ago
The philosopher Emil Cioran had an interesting take on this. If I read him right we can stop looking for the meaning of life. It won’t make us happy to look, but it also won’t make us happy to stop. Nothing will make us happy.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 2 hours ago
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 13 minutes ago
I don’t get it.
four@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
I’m on the hedonistic treadmill enjoying the run
MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
The only thing missing from this is the quest for a cruelty free pee, that seems to take up most of our lives these days.
gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
I was free from 0-6.
I am going to study from 6-27, roughly, though also working in the meantime. Let’s call that 20 years.
I intend to work from 23-50, at most. Hopefully less. That’s 27 years.
There’s some overlap.
Let’s say I die at 80 (I’m almost 25). A slightly early death, on average.
That’s 36 free years. 27 years of work. 20 years of study.
36 free years VS 44 work/study years
Methinks possible. Methinks not so bad?
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
36 years as a walking corpse that society no longer wants, outside your grandkids. So you have to perpetuate the cycle to feel anything. Oh, and some beautiful landscape and nice things you can buy, again, while you rot away, and no one cares what you have at all, no one to share with.
gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
What are you talking about? Grandkids at 50?
Do you have to work or study to feel anything? What cycle are you talking about?
I’m confused.
Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
I’m curious on how you plan to retire at 50. Doing that where I live means you basically get no pension so you’d have to have saved up enough to live the rest of your life during those 27 years, so a bit over half your income would need to go into a savings account.
lemmyman@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Look up “FIRE” for “financial independence, retire early.”
tl;dr - save a larger chunk of your salary and
invest itbecome part of the owner class, living off theinterest, dividends, and capital gainssurplus value generated by the working class.gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
You seem to already know pretty much what I plan to do. What I’m already doing.
I’m saving a bit more than half my income, and I’m investing it rather than putting it in a savings account, but yeah that’s it, you got it!
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Anf then you move to western or northern europe. Wait you guys got childhoods? Wait you guys get actual 6-8 hours of work a day instead of having 4 hours of unpaid overtime after it? Wait you guys get to retire at an age and health condition where you just travel poor african and asian countries for another 15 years being racist in some very strange colonialist manner?(this last one being a critique)
brownsugga@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The Beatles had the meaning of life in a song back in the day- Life Goes On
That’s it, it just goes on
If you’re lucky you have a kid
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 17 minutes ago
“Free”
Both my parents retired. Are they living it up? Are they checking things off their bucket lists? Nope. They’re having emergency surgeries, planned surgeries, going to the doctor all the time, taking a regiment of pills or they die, and hanging around the house because they’re old and their mobillity isn’t great.
It’s a scam, friends. You’re going to work until you’re dead or until it doesn’t really matter anymore whether you’re dead or not.