Prompt: How Would I Retire?

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How do you want to retire?

Today's writing prompt is actually a good one. Not because it's something logical that one would ask as a writing prompt, but because whoever generates these things must be at least a little tone-deaf. "How do you want to retire?"

Huh?

Retire?

For anybody born in the eighties and on-ward, there is no retirement. Prices are sky-high, landlords are out there asking 2000 dollars a month for boxes with a shower in 'em in the middle of nowhere suburbia. The president is on social media posting about how great the economy is and how inflation is a zero.

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Jobs refuse to move their rate-of-pay to the actual cost of living (which should be around thirty dollars an hour, minimum wage), benefits are far and few between, retirement funds come out of your own paycheck, and if you're lucky, you're also investing in stocks that may, someday, be worth enough to pull out.

Tech startups are using algorithms to steal everything you've ever made, written, and dreamed of in order to fuel profits. In order to steal and destroy jobs, disenfranchising millions, putting people in the streets, out of work, out of money, and this will inevitably lead people back to these jobs that don't pay, and don't benefit you.

Retirement is such a funny thing.

In 2024, around the ages of 20 to 40 or so, your hopes of retiring are completely based on:

• winning the lottery
• waiting for Mr. Beast to give you a million dollars
• getting lucky with online content creation

And that's it, folks!

The world is careening to something even more unsustainable than it was before, and most of us will be working until we reach our deathbeds.

Retirement. Maybe in a fantasy land, another dimension, or if I accidentally no-clip into the Backrooms.