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Americans Can Now Expect to Live Three Years Less than Cubans (www.newsweek.com)
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[–] [S] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Average American has around 100k of debt, and over half the population can't afford an unexpected 1,000 expense. What that says is that people are barely making enough money to make ends meet, the chances of them saving enough resources to stop working are nil. Only a tiny percentage of the population is going to be retiring at all.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yes, the boomers got theirs, young people today don't have the same prospects. What part of that are you struggling with?

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  • [+] -7 points 3 years ago*

    Did you expect that younger generations would just inherit all their wealth? I’d have thought that this kind of landed gentry outlook wouldn’t be what a tankie like yourself would promote. Instead, due to the linear nature of time, young people of every country in every stage of human history generally have less wealth than their elders. Because they’ve had less time to accumulate it. What part of that are you struggling with?

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