• Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee
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      25 days ago

      As a Class of 2000, aka OG Millennial, wtf are you talking about?

      We’re in our early 40s.

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        That’s what I’m saying! Too old. Did you know the medical term for a pregnancy after 35 is geriatric pregnancy? Ya bro, we’re getting committed to the old folks home soon here, you and I.

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            Americans who got lucky in life have a bad habit of shrugging off the majority that didn’t as somehow irresponsible and not worth considering.

            My cousin does this. Looks at you like you’re speaking a foreign language when you say you can’t afford something that would make your life easier like replacing a malfunctioning appliance right now.

            Privilege is a bubble of willful ignorance akin to the Republican bubble.

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      Unless you’re talking about FIRE, no: the oldest millennials are in their early 40s and have two decades to go before traditional retirement age.

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          If you’re that 1% super elite CS student, then sure you can retire at forty. The rest can’t even if they are child free.

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          That’d probably only work if you met your SO immediately when you began working, and you both had the same money plan.

          Otherwise it’s probably not enough saved money to support 2 people, only 1 (edit until the later 40s)

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              If you do it over 20 years absolutely it can be done.

              But to do that and retire in your early 40’s (40-43.33) as you suggest means people will need to likely meet in highschool or early college and work on it right away once they start earning income.

              Unless people happen to create a similar plan 20 years prior and are able to find each other many years into their plans. It is possible, but it’s harder.

              edit: changed the perspective to people, not specifically you.