Unfortunately for us, we've developed a culture that is against anyone that can be seen as a 'whinger'. Anyone who has complaints about how things are run is generally seen as lazy or entitled, and the mentality of 'my life sucked so yours should too' is extremely prevalent.
Australians are world class bootlickers; we're more amenable to fascism or totalitarianism then the Chinese. The hilarious part is it;s 90% vanity,
nah mate we're the lucky country if you don't like it then get back on yer boat
but nationalism aside, I just don't see me making it to 67 anyway, the odds are stacked against so many of us right now.
I just don’t see me making it to 67 anyway
you said it man. when my body really starts to fall apart I'm taking 10k and going on a last blast bender, everything else to by nieces so they have a chance in the climate wars
More. My life sucked, yours should suck more unless you are my favourite kid
Huh. I thought our retirement age was already 67.
Same here, thought it already was 67.
I think a bit of the "eh" attitude is that we have a pretty damn good superannuation system in place, which means that most people should have enough money put away without them lifting a finger to make it to 67 just fine.
lol, assuming we will have any real money in super by the time we retire... they've already started to plunder super to prop up the AirBnB market
Who has plundered it?
I don't know when it was changed but it was phased it in over time. People this year are the first that have to wait until 67.
Because none of us under the age of 50 suffer the delusion that we might be able to retire some day.
Retirement is for boomers, and the wealthy. The rest of us pick up the slack, all while while we're labeled lazy and ungrateful by those that came before us.
Edit: haha oh, this is Australia. Sorry, American here. I just assumed it was us because it was depressing. I wonder if my take on this transcends the country borders, though? Do you all have the same sort of situation there?
Honestly, you might be American but you're right (imho).
I assumed it was the US too, lol. Retirement is probably gonna be made illegal soon here. /s?
You assumed a post in an Australian Politics community was about the US?
Probably because our overlords are too busy distracting us by having us fight over whether people who have been colonised and have had everything taken away deserve a louder voice on their stolen land?
France's pension pays more than the minimum wage. Here the aged pension is almost half of minimum wage. A lot of people there have planned their retirement assuming that they'll get that nice pension.
In the future, most people here will be living off their super. Aged pension will be for people who haven't worked much and the self employed because they don't have compulsory super. The aged pension won't affect too many people in the future.
Because torching cars and businesses is unproductive and uncivilized.
Oh, you're right, let's be civilised and let absolutely everything be taken from us. Wooo!
Have to torch the right cars and houses though.
far more civilized to let the poor starve in the streets in the name of profits...
Tesla's. Kidding, not kidding.
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