• Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The only victim of not having a retirement plan is yourself, surely.

    The conversation is also about a) the likelihood that when (surprise surprise) the world does not end and these people have no retirement savings, they will demand public assistance funded via higher taxes on younger working people. And b) the idea of not taking action to make the world better, out of a sense of hopelessness and frankly laziness.

    It’s impossible not to feel powerless today because despite all the efforts we go to, everything seems to be going more and more wrong with time.

    Seems to be but isn’t.

    Helplessness is propaganda. You are being lied to by people who want you to feel this way.

    You can start doing your part in the easiest way possible: argue against and shut down Russian propagandists on this very site trying to convince Americans not to vote for Biden. That’s an important job if saving the world is your goal. Forums and social media are battlegrounds of ideas, and you can be a soldier in the army of truth and good.