Commando gang rise up!

As a white dude who exclusively dates black women now there ain't no fucking with black women.

Black wave ✊🏿

Which further gets to pension age being low is bullshit as it is lol. It's meant as a general guideline it's why I don't plan on taking my pension until I'm 70. Means I can. Get more money by delaying. Unfortunately not all people can do that though.

Regardless, the point is demanding a pension age of 55 is insane as is expecting the pension age to stay at 65. The average person born in 2000 is expected to live about 80 years which means most people will live well beyond that. The system is not designed to support someone for 25+ years because when it was designed we did not live that long!

Which gets to the underlying problem. UBI. We keep addressing all these fractured issues when they would all be solved with a fucking UBI but God forbid politicians ask corporations and millionaires/billionaires to pay for it.

We can't even get our politicians to fund education and healthcare properly.

We are cooked chat.

Here come the downvotes but whatever. This is a problem in the entire 1st world so my position in Canada is just as applicable.

I'm 49. My dad is 82 and just stopped working.

It is a fact that people are living longer and able to work longer. It is also a fact that people, on average, do not plan for retirement that is why we have social assistance. It is also a fact that government social assistance is supposed to be a stop gap not a replacement for individual responsibility. For the government to be fully responsible your taxes would need to increase drastically.

In Canada one of the best things that was done recently was to raise the amount every Canadian pays into the CPP. This did not improve it however, this just made it less likely to run out of money in the future. This is why they also are providing incentives to delay receiving your CPP and why globally there is a push to raise the pension age.

So there are multiple problems

1. We do not fund the system well enough to account for the amount of pensioners increasing that funding is political suicide.
2. People are living longer and we have the largest fucking generation ever needing to be propped up by one of the smallest who I might add are also raising kids at the same time.
3. People are working longer depressing the market for high value and low value jobs (think executives and Walmart greeters)
4. People do not plan for retirement

In none of these scenarios does lowering the pension age make it easier.

On a base level I agree with what you said. It's bullshit my dad has to work until 82. But Jesus Christ reality people. It's not feasible!

As a end fyi. My parents are lower middle class and we're good with money but then in the 90s we had a recession and my dad lost his job to computers and ther went their savings. This is not a unique story. People can be responsible and shit happens. As it stands now they barely make by on only government pensions because they live in the middle of nowhere and they rent for well below market value because the person who owns their house is a genuinely nice person. Survival shouldn't rely on luck.

Even got the big guy in the right colour 🙏🏾

I would say money out of politics is a good start. Citizens United needs to go.

Beyond that though, American willingly voted in a man twice who said he grabs women by the pussy.

1. A segment of the population was ok with that
2. A segment of the population didn't care enough and either stayed home or still voted for him.

Then there's all the other shitty things about him that were known for years prior to 2016.

I don't know how you fix that. America shows us all who they are and how do you change who you are? A sexist, racist, money obsessed bipolar lunatic.

I'm sure we had a moniker for it I've long forgotten. I will always have a space in my heart though for Adobe Ragemaker. Fuck Ragemaker.

To this day graphic design is why I hate Macs lol

I miss Quark

Oh yeah. And the anxiety too. I have bills I can pay and I keep forgetting because of anxiety. It's not that I can't pay them. I hate looking at how much money I have or don't have. It's not healthy to my wellbeing.

I'm blessed I make good money that I don't have to look at my bank account.

And when they do still cheat a victory fight harder than you ever had