ConnieDee t1_jb1zzpy wrote on March 5, 2023 at 8:46 PM

Reply to comment by KingJaredoftheLand in A duo of 81-year-old women are on the adventure of a lifetime: Seeing the world in 80 days by OregonTripleBeam

Future generations have some time ahead of them - why not see what happens. And start putting $5 a month into your 401K now if you have any taxable income at all. If that's the system we've got, might as well take advantage of it.

(Systems are not conservative or liberal; they are just headless systems. The trick is to figure out how to nudge them in one direction or another.)

TJNel t1_jb2nvnc wrote on March 5, 2023 at 11:38 PM

$60 a year so you can retire when you are 300 years old.

ConnieDee t1_jb386gd wrote on March 6, 2023 at 2:20 AM

If I had said $100 a month people would have said Oh No We Can't Afford That! Investing 101 (it's a multi-year course so start early.) Hating capitalism is no reason not to pay attention to ways you could be one of the ones traveling in their 80s. It makes sense to try to change the world, but we also have no choice but to live in the world as it is: might as well make the best of it.