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They can never become a part of the demonic, worthless, piece of shit, drug addicted, criminal, rapist homeless population, because those are the very views THEY put onto those people.

Death is retirement. Suicide when I can no longer work. They don’t leave all of these guns and fentanyl around for nothing.

I feel for them, truly. We American workers have been promised pensions that were taken because it was too expensive, Social Security that's now being reduced or threatened with reduction to save money, and told to gamble our retirement in the stock market which is crashing to save money. The folks that were up for retirement this year have been screwed by Trump and his tariffs. The folks already retired are getting screwed by the cost of living. And everyone else years or decades away from retirement are looking at the gates of Oblivion.

I used to work in a factory a few years ago while trying to get a tech job (had to pay the bills) and I remember this old guy that worked there with me. He was in his mid 70s, was slow, and tired. Definitely couldn't keep up with the fast pace environment that required 20, 30, 40yo people to do the job so he had the simplest most insignificant tasks to do. I asked him, one day, why he was still working when he should be at home retired. He said he needed the health care and if he had a medical emergency then there was always someone here that could save his life. That was pretty sad.

You guys are retiring?

I'm 46. My expectation is that retirement will be completely impossible. I expect to die at my desk or in between visits to my desk.

Suicide is going to become a popular retirement option.

This happens when you weaponize homelessness & poverty.

This is one of the things I've hated most about this country for as long as I can remember. "Poor" is worse than "dead." Not just because of the stigmas American society places on destitution, but because money equals value.

In the United States you have to be able to afford dignity. If you've got enough money when you die, you can die with dignity. But when you're poor, you're forced to live without dignity and are made to die without dignity.

A dead person with money is still a person. But a poor person, living or dead, is a lazy drug-addicted insect.

For the number folks:

The most respondents cited high inflation (54%), Social Security not providing as much financial support as they need (43%), and high taxes (43%). Boomers (61%) were more likely than millennials (56%) or Gen Xers (55%) to say high inflation contributed to their fear of running out of money.

But this fear is more prominent among Gen Xers (70%) who are in their 40s and 50s and fast approaching retirement and millennials (66%) than boomers (61%) who are over 60 and many have already retired.

Asian/Asian American respondents (34%) were more likely to have discussed this fear than white (22%), Black/African American (28%), and Hispanic (25%) respondents.

Interestingly no mention of Gen Z, who I guess is just starting their careers so might be why?

Though I'd imagine the doom and gloom is just as high for Gen Z if not more.

In other news; water is thought to be wet.

I never expected to retire, I'll work the rest of my life.

Death isn't scary, once you're dead, you're just gone. Being poor means uncertainty, vulnerability and discomfort (plus, as a bonus, often death). The one thing poverty has going for it is the possibility of getting really lucky and escaping before it kills you.

This is my wife and I. Worse is the fact that we both started our lives dirt poor. The first place we lived together in had a literal hole in the wall and rats in the laundry room, but we only paid $275/month for it. We skipped meals, and all around struggled to survive, but we were young. Being young and full of energy, we had hope that we could and would be able to work our way up. Thirty years later we are wealthy, but the fear that we don't have enough and we'll spend our last days back in that misery and wishing to die is unbearable.

If the dollar tanks and a lifetime of struggle and misery proves pointless, I'm not waiting around for a slow death in a wretched "life".

Lol death can't be worse than capitalism

American life isn't living. Unless you are taking advantage of others lives for money then you are just cattle.

“Certainly for boomers...inflation is a big deal.”

This sorta stuff is why I think blaming Boomers is not helpful. This inflation has been inevitable since the Nixon Shock, and it was the "Greatest" generation - not the Boomers - who elected Nixon. We've built a high GDP economy that doesn't serve the working class at all.

This is going to be every generation if we don't organize in a big way.

100%. My wife and I live a very modest lifestyle but the numbers still don't add up come the day I can't work.

Well, yeah; if you're dead, the government and society won't go out of its way to kick you in the head.

And that's why the country has been death spiraling, the oldest generations want all the capital even though it is completely useless in their hands now