https://twitter.com/bradwilcoxifs/status/1596857590973014016?s=46
“Nearly 26 million Americans 50 or older now live alone, up from 15 million in 2000.”
For many, it will not be easy, esp. those moving into later life w/o children
NYT on rising numbers of Gen Xers & Boomers flying solo:
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https://twitter.com/bradwilcoxifs/status/1596857590973014016?s=46
“Nearly 26 million Americans 50 or older now live alone, up from 15 million in 2000.”
For many, it will not be easy, esp. those moving into later life w/o childrenEjmr says this is optimal - to not have children
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In what sense? I'm in my late thirties, have a few couple friends with children, most one or two.
I run and row, pretty healthy and fit for my age, have time to eat well everyday, sleep 7-8 hours during weekdays and 9-10 on the weekends. My mortgage will be paid before I'm 50 and I'm saving 5% every year for retirement (company matches 100% up to 5).
My friends with children are a mess. Most dads cannot go up a couple of flights of stairs without weezing. Moms are visibly flacid and starting to develop the dough-y arms that hang around when waving. They are always late on everything because of children, so they spend nights and weekends doing chores and catching up on work. Two couples had to refinance their mortgage, one of them *after* depleting the college funds for their two boys.
When I get to 65-70, I will have either two houses or one house + a hefty retirement fund easily able to cover me for 20 years. If I get too old I will just sell everything and move to a retirement community.
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In what sense? I'm in my late thirties, have a few couple friends with children, most one or two.
I run and row, pretty healthy and fit for my age, have time to eat well everyday, sleep 7-8 hours during weekdays and 9-10 on the weekends. My mortgage will be paid before I'm 50 and I'm saving 5% every year for retirement (company matches 100% up to 5).
My friends with children are a mess. Most dads cannot go up a couple of flights of stairs without weezing. Moms are visibly flacid and starting to develop the dough-y arms that hang around when waving. They are always late on everything because of children, so they spend nights and weekends doing chores and catching up on work. Two couples had to refinance their mortgage, one of them *after* depleting the college funds for their two boys.
When I get to 65-70, I will have either two houses or one house + a hefty retirement fund easily able to cover me for 20 years. If I get too old I will just sell everything and move to a retirement community.How much do you earn as salary per year? Are you tenured?
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In what sense? I'm in my late thirties, have a few couple friends with children, most one or two.
I run and row, pretty healthy and fit for my age, have time to eat well everyday, sleep 7-8 hours during weekdays and 9-10 on the weekends. My mortgage will be paid before I'm 50 and I'm saving 5% every year for retirement (company matches 100% up to 5).
My friends with children are a mess. Most dads cannot go up a couple of flights of stairs without weezing. Moms are visibly flacid and starting to develop the dough-y arms that hang around when waving. They are always late on everything because of children, so they spend nights and weekends doing chores and catching up on work. Two couples had to refinance their mortgage, one of them *after* depleting the college funds for their two boys.
When I get to 65-70, I will have either two houses or one house + a hefty retirement fund easily able to cover me for 20 years. If I get too old I will just sell everything and move to a retirement community.yeah but you wont have kids. which is the point of life
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When I get to 65-70, I will have either two houses or one house + a hefty retirement fund easily able to cover me for 20 years. If I get too old I will just sell everything and move to a retirement community.Neither Netflix, nor even Twitter, will keep you company as your parents age, then die, remember things you did together, or help you teach a little version of you that looks a bit like a favorite old grandparent how to count to 100.
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In what sense? I'm in my late thirties, have a few couple friends with children, most one or two.
I run and row, pretty healthy and fit for my age, have time to eat well everyday, sleep 7-8 hours during weekdays and 9-10 on the weekends. My mortgage will be paid before I'm 50 and I'm saving 5% every year for retirement (company matches 100% up to 5).
My friends with children are a mess. Most dads cannot go up a couple of flights of stairs without weezing. Moms are visibly flacid and starting to develop the dough-y arms that hang around when waving. They are always late on everything because of children, so they spend nights and weekends doing chores and catching up on work. Two couples had to refinance their mortgage, one of them *after* depleting the college funds for their two boys.
When I get to 65-70, I will have either two houses or one house + a hefty retirement fund easily able to cover me for 20 years. If I get too old I will just sell everything and move to a retirement community.You'll have two house but no one to return to. I hope your houses have exposed bricks though. At least that will give you happiness and purpose in life.
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In what sense? I'm in my late thirties, have a few couple friends with children, most one or two.
I run and row, pretty healthy and fit for my age, have time to eat well everyday, sleep 7-8 hours during weekdays and 9-10 on the weekends. My mortgage will be paid before I'm 50 and I'm saving 5% every year for retirement (company matches 100% up to 5).
My friends with children are a mess. Most dads cannot go up a couple of flights of stairs without weezing. Moms are visibly flacid and starting to develop the dough-y arms that hang around when waving. They are always late on everything because of children, so they spend nights and weekends doing chores and catching up on work. Two couples had to refinance their mortgage, one of them *after* depleting the college funds for their two boys.
When I get to 65-70, I will have either two houses or one house + a hefty retirement fund easily able to cover me for 20 years. If I get too old I will just sell everything and move to a retirement community.yeah but you wont have kids. which is the point of life
Point of your life perhaps. I'm in this life to feel pleasure and then die.
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In what sense? I'm in my late thirties, have a few couple friends with children, most one or two.
I run and row, pretty healthy and fit for my age, have time to eat well everyday, sleep 7-8 hours during weekdays and 9-10 on the weekends. My mortgage will be paid before I'm 50 and I'm saving 5% every year for retirement (company matches 100% up to 5).
My friends with children are a mess. Most dads cannot go up a couple of flights of stairs without weezing. Moms are visibly flacid and starting to develop the dough-y arms that hang around when waving. They are always late on everything because of children, so they spend nights and weekends doing chores and catching up on work. Two couples had to refinance their mortgage, one of them *after* depleting the college funds for their two boys.
When I get to 65-70, I will have either two houses or one house + a hefty retirement fund easily able to cover me for 20 years. If I get too old I will just sell everything and move to a retirement community.You'll have two house but no one to return to. I hope your houses have exposed bricks though. At least that will give you happiness and purpose in life.
I don't need other people to be happy. In my view, it must be a sad existence to depend on others for something as essential as that
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When I get to 65-70, I will have either two houses or one house + a hefty retirement fund easily able to cover me for 20 years. If I get too old I will just sell everything and move to a retirement community.Neither Netflix, nor even Twitter, will keep you company as your parents age, then die, remember things you did together, or help you teach a little version of you that looks a bit like a favorite old grandparent how to count to 100.
Seems horrible, tbh. I have no patience whatsoever with kids, I get tired of them after half an hour at most when I visit my siblings and friends
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Point of your life perhaps. I'm in this life to feel pleasure and then die.
Why aren’t you high on drugs right now then?
My dopamine levels are pretty low on average - I get pleasure from exercising, reading, or as I'm doing right now, drinking a beer while watching the niners. I'm going for dinner with a FF later on. No need for drugs
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Me neither, except for my own kid. Before I wouldn’t believe it myself, but having kids is something special that is hard for someone without to understand (unless you’re a genuine sociopath).
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When I get to 65-70, I will have either two houses or one house + a hefty retirement fund easily able to cover me for 20 years. If I get too old I will just sell everything and move to a retirement community.Neither Netflix, nor even Twitter, will keep you company as your parents age, then die, remember things you did together, or help you teach a little version of you that looks a bit like a favorite old grandparent how to count to 100.
Seems horrible, tbh. I have no patience whatsoever with kids, I get tired of them after half an hour at most when I visit my siblings and friends
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Point of your life perhaps. I'm in this life to feel pleasure and then die.
Why aren’t you high on drugs right now then?
My dopamine levels are pretty low on average - I get pleasure from exercising, reading, or as I'm doing right now, drinking a beer while watching the niners. I'm going for dinner with a FF later on. No need for drugs
Your pleasure levels would be much higher if you were in ecstasy right now. You’re either a liar or you’re not fulfilling your point in life.
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¿Qué es el Liberalismo? En el orden de las ideas es un conjunto de ideas falsas; en el orden de los hechos es un conjunto de hechos criminales, consecuencia práctica de aquellas ideas...
En el orden de las ideas, el Liberalismo es el conjunto de lo que se llaman principios liberales, con las consecuencias lógicas que de ellos se derivan. Principios liberales son: 1) la absoluta soberanía del individuo con entera independencia de Dios y de su autoridad; 2) soberanía de la sociedad con absoluta independencia de lo que no nazca de ella misma; 3) soberanía nacional, es decir, el derecho del pueblo para legislar y gobernar con absoluta independencia de todo criterio que no sea su propia voluntad, expresada por el sufragio primero y por la mayoría parlamentaria después; 4) libertad de pensamiento sin limitación alguna en política, en moral o en Religión; 5) libertad de libertad de imprenta, asimismo absoluta o insuficientemente limitada; 6) libertad de asociación con iguales anchuras. Estos son los llamados principios liberales en su más crudo radicalismo.
El fondo común de ellos es el racionalismo individual, el racionalismo político y el racionalismo social. Derívanse de ellos la libertad de cultos más o menos restringida; la supremacía del Estado en sus relaciones con la Iglesia; la enseñanza laica o independiente sin ningún lazo con la Religión; el matrimonio legalizado y sancionado por la intervención única del Estado: su última palabra, la que todo lo abarca y sintetiza, es la palabra SECULARIZACIÓN, es decir, la no intervención de la Religión en acto alguno de la vida pública, verdadero ATEÍSMO SOCIAL, que es la última consecuencia del Liberalismo.
Félix Sardá y Salvany
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In what sense? I'm in my late thirties, have a few couple friends with children, most one or two.
I run and row, pretty healthy and fit for my age, have time to eat well everyday, sleep 7-8 hours during weekdays and 9-10 on the weekends. My mortgage will be paid before I'm 50 and I'm saving 5% every year for retirement (company matches 100% up to 5).
My friends with children are a mess. Most dads cannot go up a couple of flights of stairs without weezing. Moms are visibly flacid and starting to develop the dough-y arms that hang around when waving. They are always late on everything because of children, so they spend nights and weekends doing chores and catching up on work. Two couples had to refinance their mortgage, one of them *after* depleting the college funds for their two boys.
When I get to 65-70, I will have either two houses or one house + a hefty retirement fund easily able to cover me for 20 years. If I get too old I will just sell everything and move to a retirement community.You'll have two house but no one to return to. I hope your houses have exposed bricks though. At least that will give you happiness and purpose in life.
I don't need other people to be happy. In my view, it must be a sad existence to depend on others for something as essential as that
I suppose you haven't interacted with older people. Good luck.