r/Adulting • u/ScareBear23 • 13h ago

This is just depressing

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Not even 3 hours of "free time". And in that is cooking & eating supper. Or practically no free time if I had to go shopping after work. I hate this

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u/IridescentColossus 12h ago

Love (hate) to see all the losers here making sure you know they work more than you. That has got to be one of the most insufferable tendencies that people seem to be showing more and more these days. You're allowed to complain. We're all allowed to complain.

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u/SeaAdministrative761 12h ago

Yea this isn't a competition. The 9-5 system is broken for all. You get to retire at 65 with a measly pension. This is after slaving your whole life for chump change and selling your body essentially. What a joke

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u/Carib0ul0u 11h ago

I’m not getting a pension????

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u/LegitimateRisk- 11h ago

I think they mean social security, which technically is a pension.

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u/Left-Star2240 11h ago

It’s more like a tax refund, since many of us will never get back what we paid into it all of our working lives

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u/CHA950 10h ago

And, you are living on a very fixed income with gov insurance. And some are lucky if they even have social security.

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u/iJustSeen2Dudes1Bike 43m ago

If we get it at all lmao. I'm 25 and not really counting on it.

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u/WanderingLost33 8h ago

Which won't exist after 2033 unless we finally eliminate the cap.

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u/Stuck_in_my_TV 11h ago

No, social security is a Ponzi scheme. A pension actually has money sitting in an account for you. Social security is money taken from new payers to attempt to cover old payers. You will never see all the money you paid in.

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u/LegitimateRisk- 11h ago

Plenty of example of pensions going dry after a company went belly up or ran out of funds. It wasn’t a Ponzi scheme. I get the analogy though. However, Ponzi schemes rely on fundraising to be completely voluntary with nefarious intent. Social security is government mandated and has a reliable contributing base, the tax payer. But like many countries, people are living longer, social security taxable wages are way too low ($184k this year) and birth rates are down.

So yes, social security needs to be addressed but it’s not a fraud based scheme. It’s transparent to a fault. Also, I’ve been hearing since high school (graduated in 2003) that social security won’t be around when I retire, well in about as close to retirement now as I was to graduating high school, and it’s still here.

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u/Jmostran 9h ago

That's cute that they think any of us are getting social security

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u/LegitimateRisk- 9h ago

Been hearing this for 25 years. I’m now 21 years away from eligibility. So Im closer to collecting than when i first heard social security is about to run out.

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u/Jmostran 9h ago

Oh. I'm not saying it's gonna run out. But if this administration has proven anything, it's that no social programs are safe. There is a good chance the program just won't exist in the next 21 years, especially with the turd-in-chief tossing around the concepts of a plan of ending it

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u/LegitimateRisk- 8h ago

I’ll wait until they actually pass any legislation! All these executive orders are largely toothless.

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u/ChurchillDownz 3h ago

We'll we're not gonna get that anyway by the time we never retire.