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Why Gen Z are so motivated by pay (www.bbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

https://i.redd.it/rj6ayv3mrh9a1.png

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

lol I'm not even counting on Social Security or Medicare to be around when I'm old enough to retire (if I even can) because I'm guessing that's all gonna be cut in the future.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I'm not even counting on America to be around when I'm old enough to retire.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I used to think this way when I was younger but I have gotten more optimistic in this respect

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why? What gives you hope?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Because many many years ago, when people who are retired now were young, the world also was a terrible place.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

What if, instead of allowing these services that we've paid for to be taken from us, we instead force the billionaires to rip them from or bloody fingers while we take bites out of their greedy little hands. 🐰🔥🥰

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Is the retirement plan to die in the revolution, or is the retirement plan itself going to die in the revolution?

…Or both?