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Dying on the job? How embarrassing. One place I swore I would never ever ever ever want to die..... on the job. I would rather die doing something like a hobby, not at work. That would have to be the absolute worst place. I saved and I collect my SS to avoid the utter embarrassment of dying on the job.
I worked with a guy who dropped dead of a heart attack in the airport on the way home from a business trip.
Talk about a miserable way of going, ay?
And that is fine. My point was there hasn't been some drastic generational drop off in people's ability to spend money to live their lives.If you make that chart per capita, it flattens to where we are just now to the 2007 peak again.
I just don't believe the claim that the standard of living for this or the next generation is worse off, more like each one just takes more luxury items for granted as something everyone has.
Some basic personal finance skills would go a long way for many of the people who are 60 years old and realize they have no savings.
We're dealing with stagnant wages, increased housing costs, increased health care costs, skyrocketing college tuition costs, high unemployment rates, and whole host of other issues. It's more complicated than tightening one's belt.
Some basic personal finance skills would go a long way for many of the people who are 60 years old and realize they have no savings.
We're dealing with stagnant wages, increased housing costs, increased health care costs, skyrocketing college tuition costs, high unemployment rates, and whole host of other issues. It's more complicated than tightening one's belt.
Yes, the Obama economy is rather poor, but still you either plan on how to retire one day, or you plan to keep on working. It really is that simple.
Work is good for you anyway. WTF is the point of sitting around like a turd watching the clock tick away your last days?
Some basic personal finance skills would go a long way for many of the people who are 60 years old and realize they have no savings.
We're dealing with stagnant wages, increased housing costs, increased health care costs, skyrocketing college tuition costs, high unemployment rates, and whole host of other issues. It's more complicated than tightening one's belt.
Yes, the Obama economy is rather poor, but still you either plan on how to retire one day, or you plan to keep on working. It really is that simple.
Work is good for you anyway. WTF is the point of sitting around like a turd watching the clock tick away your last days?
We're dealing with stagnant wages, increased housing costs, increased health care costs, skyrocketing college tuition costs, high unemployment rates, and whole host of other issues. It's more complicated than tightening one's belt.
Yes, the Obama economy is rather poor, but still you either plan on how to retire one day, or you plan to keep on working. It really is that simple.
Work is good for you anyway. WTF is the point of sitting around like a turd watching the clock tick away your last days?
Spoken like someone who has no interests outside of work.
How sad.
There hasn't been 35 years of stagnant or declining real income, so you should be fine then.The fact that you don't seem to be disturbed by 35 years of stagnant or declining real income is disturbing to me.
"A parachute not opening, that's the way to die... getting caught in the gears of a combine... having your nuts bitten off by a Laplander, that's the way I wanna go"
"A parachute not opening, that's the way to die... getting caught in the gears of a combine... having your nuts bitten off by a Laplander, that's the way I wanna go"
I was wondering if the opportunity would present itself....
Kim Jong Un's executed uncle was eaten alive by 120 hungry dogs: report - World News
Talk about a horrible way to go
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Thoughtless baseless words are fun --especially when used to say bad things about Americans that are not true....There has been a drastic generational drop off in people's desire to save money for the future...
One doesn't have to sit around watching the clock if they don't have a workplace they are required to show up for.Work is good for you anyway. WTF is the point of sitting around like a turd watching the clock tick away your last days?
There hasn't been 35 years of stagnant or declining real income, so you should be fine then.The fact that you don't seem to be disturbed by 35 years of stagnant or declining real income is disturbing to me.
Yep, I do.link?
Do you know what "Real" income means?
...If you have an alternate source that supports the claim real income has been falling for 35 years I'd love to see it.
...If you have an alternate source that supports the claim real income has been falling for 35 years I'd love to see it.
The original numbers from the Dept. of Commerce are all out there. imho Wikipedia has always left a lot to be desired...
Yeah, I didn't see that at first because somehow they found numbers going back to 1950. The point is still that this story about stagnant/falling wages across generations is nonsense. We've had falling incomes recently but not long term....different scale...
the republican way 
In inflation-adjusted dollars, a typical 35-44 year old man earned $54,163 back in 1972. Now a man of that age earns $45,224, or 17 percent less. For the 25-34 age bracket, the loss is even greater. You often hear of income having stayed “flat” for many years. On the household level, that’s true. Women’s incomes have increased (a good thing), and many more women have entered the workforce. That’s made up for the drop in men’s incomes, and the median household income has risen a little since 1972.
The bottom line is that as two-income families have replaced single-earner ones, the median family has barely moved forward. And the single-earner family has fallen behind. Political speechwriters like to pull out the trope of asking whether our children will do better than us. When it comes to the folks who reached adulthood forty years ago, it’s not really a question anymore. We have the answer: their sons (though, fortunately, not their daughters) are working just as hard or harder for less money.
