0-10 years.

You can die during the first 60 at any time, never making it.

"Free"

Both my parents retired. Are they living it up? Are they checking things off their bucket lists? Nope. They're having emergency surgeries, planned surgeries, going to the doctor all the time, taking a regiment of pills or they die, and hanging around the house because they're old and their mobillity isn't great.

A just reward after a lifetime of work.

It's a scam, friends. You're going to work until you're dead or until it doesn't really matter anymore whether you're dead or not.

This framework fails to consider all the time between those main activities, which we spend shitposting.

How selfish of you to deny your fortune to be able to contribute to the wealth of the chosen few!

bUt iF yOu SeE yOuR wOrKpLaCe lIkE fAmIlY tHeN yOu nEvEr wOrK a DaY iN yOuR lIfE!

40 years? Try 50+

I started working at 14-15, and I'll be happy if I can retire at 65

Suicide until you're reincarnated in billionaire family.

You should be having fun during the 20 years that you're studying. And you should be having fun during the 40 years that you're working.

The meaning of life is listening to groovy basslines on the way to and from work. And hugging your loved ones.

Don't let anything distract you from that.

Free? That's when your kids send your grandkids for you to take care of. Ungrateful bastards...

Don't mistake this as me saying this work-til-you-die shit is okay, cause it's not. But freedom is as much a mindset as it is a material circumstance. There are people who have everything but freedom and there are people who have nothing but freedom.

You think you are going to retire for 5-10 years? Cute.

40 Hopefully!

• depression for 70 years
• die

The philosopher Emil Cioran had an interesting take on this. If I read him right we can stop looking for the meaning of life. It won't make us happy to look, but it also won't make us happy to stop. Nothing will make us happy.

300 years ago:

Probably die

Work

Die

Anf then you move to western or northern europe. Wait you guys got childhoods? Wait you guys get actual 6-8 hours of work a day instead of having 4 hours of unpaid overtime after it? Wait you guys get to retire at an age and health condition where you just travel poor african and asian countries for another 15 years being racist in some very strange colonialist manner?(this last one being a critique)

It's not that bad. You're generally not aware of what you're doing for the first 10 years. Then study for the next 10. Then, if you work to live and not live to work, you might get something out of life. Anything post work, I kinda see as a bonus, not a goal. Predisposed medical conditions may mean you aren't seeing those years anyway. Actually... it may be that bad lol.
Just don't take it that seriously. Live till you die.

I’m a 43 year old engineer in an auto plant and I really enjoy my work.

The only thing missing from this is the quest for a cruelty free pee, that seems to take up most of our lives these days.

The Beatles had the meaning of life in a song back in the day- Life Goes On

That's it, it just goes on

If you're lucky you have a kid

The meaning is to live life and enjoy as much as you can along the way.

I'm going to leave my kids more than my parents will leave me, and more than their parents left them, and hopefully they'll be shaped with better ideals because of me.