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30 years? It’s happening now. A significant portion of the homeless people that exist in this country are senior citizens who are too old to work and cannot afford housing. There are programs that are able to help some of them, but not all.
We need more affordable housing and nursing staff who can take care of elderly homeless people.
Too bad the rich oligarchs are buying up land for data centers to make AI slop the next big thing, and healthcare is laughably underfunded in this country.
But arent you happy that they aren’t just outright murdering you like in Tulsa? Really, you should be happy to starve or succumb to weather or sepsis, pleb.
Unfortunately more nursing staff won’t matter if there’s no one to pay for people to be there. Everyone can get Medicare after they turn 65, but what few people know is that Medicare only pays for Skilled Nursing (SNF), which is short-term and requires a “skilled need,” aka a doc has to certify that you need physical and occupational therapy for a period of time to get better.
As people age though, many lose the ability to care for themselves altogether, and many of those individuals may end up in Long-Term Care (LTC). Medicare does not cover this, only Medicaid does, and only people who are basically destitute are eligible for Medicaid. This means someone who is forced to go to LTC is very likely to spend every penny to their name there before becoming Medicaid eligible.
Make a long-term care plan, y’all, and talk to your parents about theirs too. I’ve seen what happens when it becomes a crisis and no plans have been made and it’s awful.
Feeling very comfy with my NHS when i read this comment
Have you also seen the news that the NHS is giving all their health data to Palantir?
Europe’s pensions are all crumbling. Who’s gonna pay those pensions and social security when 60% of the population is 60+? It’s a really issue that politicians ignore because they prefer to listen to boomers instead of young parent-age voters.
Great Britain pays a much LOWER portion of its tax receipts into public healthcare than does the USA. The fact that it achieves far greater results, and for the entire population from cradle to grave is just the result of using it properly.
Idk man, but i’m gonna have kids and stay healthy as long as possible so i’m not that worried for myself.
Retirement is a concept that only really existed post World War II. They’re haven’t been many generations over the last 10,000 years that I’ve been able to just magically stop working and live off their saved money.
I don’t think this is true. There’s a ton of evidence of societies where elders were taken care of by the rest of their group, maybe still participating in some labor, but in significantly less demanding labor
The Incas had social security for the ill, disabled and elderly.
I couldn’t find an uncensored version
Well that’s because people keep posting the censored version.
Also the censoring is nearly useless so I don’t even understand why they bother in the first place
Probably like the movie called plan 75 in which the government encourages medically assisted suicides.
So yeah, not great
I remember a Star Trek TNG episode where it was 60 on some planet.
I remember a Rick and Morty episode where it was spaghetti
it’s already known what it’ll look like:
a line of folks who are elderly and forced to work for minimum wages in jobs an elderly person can handle. capitalism has designed it this way.
Why your children are supposed to house and care for you of course.
What children?
The ones you’d have if 15yr olds were still pumping out kids
Fucking excuse me?!?
Ha…yeah… PROBABLY should have linked the below to explain the comment. Downvotes well deserved!
Not entirely sure but they might be referring to an interesting wrinkle in falling birth rates. A huge portion of that is there are way fewer teenage moms nowadays.
Every single one of these old rehashed memes with blurred out swearwords I will permanently downvote.
I thought all downvotes were permanent. Do they expire after a period of time if you don’t mark them as permanent?
Poetic licence, you can’t hurt me.
Explain this to me like I am stupid. I don’t get the censoring hate
Imagine you’re in a bar with your friends. Someone tells a joke, but covers their mouth when they say a naughty word. How would that play out in your friend circle?
But I can clearly see the censored word. It is not even mildly inconvenient. I am genuinely confused
Incompetent censorship is not somehow better than normal censorship.
DC pensions are dogshit, and that’s for people that are lucky enough to have even those. We are fuuuucked as a society.
Most social security systems are pay-as-you-go, meaning the current generation of workers is subsidizing current pensions. With the glut of retired boomers, this is happening now.
Assuming they get rid of Social Security, I suspect they will just find excuse to winnow the rolls. It has strong support. Medicare as well.
Medicaid is villainized obviously, lazy poors not making enough money, they make me so angry!
like a FUPA on the Statue of Liberty
Aren‘t we already dealing with that? Despite boomers‘ hoarding of wealth, plenty of them didn‘t have jobs offering retirements or save enough on their own to have a retirement, that‘s why there‘s messed up push on the theofasicsts part to want people to have more kids so we can fund the social security and medicare retirements of all these people.
The same thing that happens to people who are retiring now and didnt plan/couldn’t afford to save
