But at least we can rest easy knowing profit was extorted to the Mac along the way to create a market humanity doesn’t need.

The jokes will be on the billionaires whose wet dream for the last 4p years was to gut social security…not only will people pass from Deaths of Despair long before that. 67 YO in this world? Lol. Give capitalism another decade unfettered and male life expectancy will be in the 60s, guaranteed.

-life expectancy is already plummeting in the US vs. other countries, but the morons are going to kill much immigration–the only thing that has been sustaining the US’s population. Every other country would be desperate for cheap, unskilled labor to exploit and birthrates but not these short-sighted greedy fucks.

I use brave as default search on Firefox, and search in incognito by default. On mobile, brave doesn’t save the “disable AI” setting so the slop is there for every search, not to mention slowing down the process.

This 13% permanent reduction in benefits by raising Full Retirement Age several months for each birth year from age 65 to 67was passed under Reagan. It was bad policy then and coupled with allowing companies to offload the management of pensions with the advent of the disastrous 401k scam will combine to have very few Americans being able to stop working in their later or even very late years.

The same corporate greed that cut pensions is the same force that has kept wages stagnant or declining in purchasing power for decades, which only exacerbates the dependency on social security. The complexity and specialized knowledge required to independently manage and plan for one’s own retirement is beyond almost all americans–regardless of their income as, like the Tax Code, is arcane, opaque and takes enormous effort and time to learn and understand.

Worst of all, and somewhat aligned with your post title, with the raising of the SS retirement age (which will also be proposed and MASSIVELY hammered in the US media to support fucking over the public further when Trifecta Trump and congress ram it through) and the disappearance of pensions, even those who do have the means, it becomes less clear when it’s appropriate to retire. Golden years, time with grandchildren, focusing on ones health…it all will be assaulted again. I fully expect the retirement age will be raised or even eliminated and, unlike the french, our pathetic, gullible public will eat it up and then wonder why life is so hard.

I recommend Work, Retire, Repeat that came out this year for a thorough review with solutions and the many more attractive options our country has to choose from…if we can wrest control back from the ultra-wealthy who just want slave labor until you die and care nothing for your life, family, friends, or our society and country.

Temu Tom

For the basic plan, based on usage though it looks like you’d save more with our premium tier that allows unlimited flushes per day and includes our smellfesh scent subscription.

Do you hear the people sing?

Singing the song of angry men

This is the music of a people

Who will not be slaves again

When the beating of your heart

Echoes the beating of a drum

There is a life about to start

When tomorrow comes

There is a short story by RL Stevenson, The Bottle Imp, about a cursed bottle whose owner can make wishes but they must sell the bottle for less than half of what they paid for it or they will be damned to hell. The new owner must also enter the contract fully aware of the curse and risk of purchasing the bottle/genie. The original price paid was quite high, but as time passes and the list of owners grows, our main character comes across it and buys it for only $50. While he eventually sells it, had the next person not felt their value from a genie was worth eternal damnation our character would have been screwed.

I mention the story as I think that’s where we are with US capitalism. Everyone knows it’s fucked and are just trying to get out with theirs before the heads fly because the rewards for screwing others are still so great and people can mostly remove themselves from it’s consequences. For the ruling class, this assassination was a good reminder the stakes of the game they’ve wagered and that the clock is ticking.

That said, even with so much information available, and despite the data it’s horrible for their personal outcomes, Americans are still deciding it’s what they want. Which, like the owner class, if they ever read any history would understand when you give away all your power and rights you’re going to be screwed by the kind of people who want to lead that sort of system.

“including myself”

A better question is why hasn’t capitalism driven a market for mountain building for ski resorts?

Prosecution calls first witness; my teenage neighbor nemesis, his 28.8k baud modem, and Warcraft2

Yeah what about Thai gangster fathers, don’t they deserve to know when the call is real?

This is a good scale for democratic government. The US has lost its trashcan.

You can’t triple stamp a double stamp.

Yeah, but what about the promotional and kick back opportunities lost? You have to think about profits…

You’re always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together.

And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it’s no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies’ digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don’t want to go sievin’ through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, “as greedy as a pig”.

You and your son are the problem, everyone knows the free market will fix all inefficiencies, such as almost every global center lacking affordable housing because developers only want to build high margin homes. The free market just works or something.

The problem could be easily solved by you and your son just becoming wealthy, either that or decades of planning and government initiatives to mandate minimum supply and affordability if not outright building by governments–but how much work would that be !?! Probably easiest just to pretend it’s complex market forces and not greed.

At this point it’s like the Onion article that they release after every school shooting about how nothing can be done to prevent it in the only country where it occurs regularly; the data raping and pillaging that goes on in the US despite other countries having passed basic common sense privacy and control laws…well too bad you can’t afford the lobbyists to pass it, Poor.

Picture of the sand at the beach would also work.