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[–] 31 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is the opposite of what everyone wants. We need a national, cultural priority for reducing work hours and work years. We do not exist to slave for the wealthy and ambitious, it's time we acted like it. It should be a civilization goal to reduce the retirement age and reduce weekly work hours. We want freedom to live out best lives, not slave away and die in poverty FFS. How is this not our collective goal?

Free Americans from the burden of unwanted labours.

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  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago* (1 child)

    Because society is not there to help you? Even though in a good society, it would be. We are currently in the dark era of capitalism, man. Account for that.

    You have to set your own goals. Want to stop working at 50? How much you need to save to do that? Get started today. It takes discipline and sacrifice for most.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    There are a small number of people who already work as much as they want and live their best lives...due in large part to the rest of us not having that opportunity.

    There is a significantly larger number of people who are willing to slave away for the faint hope they can join that elite class.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Most of them do it to avoid a worse fate, not because they aspire to wealth.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Those arent the people I'm referring to.

    I'd be happy to pay more taxes to have a better social safety net that I expect to need very little at this point in my life. I already live in a country with universal healthcare. Yet there are still people who have no problem giving piles of cash and tax breaks to big business while at the same time complaining about the taxes we spend on social safety nets, voting for things that only help the elites, and maybe barely help those who have just a little more than what the average citizen has, and are just a few bad months from losing all they've gained. They make up about 30% of the population where I live, which is just enough to keep us from doing anything better.

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