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EspiritdescaliMA to FuturologyEnglish · 1 year ago

Just over half of Americans over the age of 65 are earning under $30,000 a year, and it shows how stark the retirement crisis is

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Just over half of Americans over the age of 65 are earning under $30,000 a year, and it shows how stark the retirement crisis is

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EspiritdescaliMA to FuturologyEnglish · 1 year ago
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Many older Americans are already living in poverty, and it's poised to get worse.
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    Don’t they own a house? Didn’t they vote for this?

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      They voted for the future. Unfortunately, they thought they would be millionaires/billionaires in the future.

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      Not everyone was lucky enough to buy a house…

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        Didn’t pull hard enough on those bootstraps

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          Too much cocaine toast back in the 80s otherwise they’d be millionaires

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