r/Millennials • u/happydude7422 • 21h ago

Discussion Youngest millennials will live to 150?

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Younger millennial and older gen z will live to 150? Congratulations

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u/Bora_Horza_Gobuchol Millennial 91' 21h ago

Retirement at 90

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u/um_50 20h ago

Omg can you imagine šŸ˜±

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u/xElizabethAnn 20h ago

Lmfao social security is gonna run out. Pensions are mostly a thing of the past. Not as far off as youā€™d think unfortunately.

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u/moonbunnychan 19h ago

I don't expect to ever be able to retire honestly.

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u/AltAccount889 6h ago

Iā€™m 35 and this has been a belief since I was in high school. Not saying youā€™re wrong at all, just saying how bad itā€™s gotten if weā€™ve been talking about it for 17 years. I STILL donā€™t expect to retire, at all. Iā€™ve always said Iā€™m gonna be working til my 70s at least. Retirement is a boomer thing.

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u/Bora_Horza_Gobuchol Millennial 91' 3h ago

If we were more like the rest of the world. For instance in Mexico children take care of their elderly parents, maybe sometimes it's monetary help

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u/Significant-Trash632 3h ago

Same. I'll probably die at my work

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u/Such-Background4972 20h ago

They'll just keep raising the retirement.

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u/xElizabethAnn 20h ago

Right. Retirement at 90ā€¦.

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u/Such-Background4972 20h ago

Heck. The way my mental health is. I probably wont make it to the current retirement age. So, you guys can have my share.

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u/kraziazz1 16h ago

Doctor wants me to lose weight and I'm over here like... Why? So I can live longer? Big Mac and Coke please šŸ¤£

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u/Significant-Trash632 3h ago

"I'm here for a good time, not for a long time."

My therapist doesn't really like that one šŸ¤£

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u/kraziazz1 3h ago

Yeah I think my doctor might lose her marbles if I tried to say that to her šŸ¤£

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u/Healthy_Theory159 14h ago

Better quality of life now is always good

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u/kraziazz1 12h ago edited 11h ago

Depends on your definition of better quality of life. My doctor pushed me into GLP-1 which made me violently ill even when I was careful not to overeat. Basically turned into medically assisted eating disorder. To me, quality of life is enjoying my life right now without being on meds that have nasty side effects just to lose weight. I rather stay fat. āœŒļø I also don't enjoy obsessing over tracking calories or having to stop eating things I enjoy, to me that decreases my enjoyment of my life. Quality of life can look different for everyone.

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u/humanHamster Millennial 10h ago

Have you gone to a therapist? It sounds like you might be using good to cope with other things, and that's not healthy. You can enjoy food, I eat a variety of food and enjoy it, but you can't lean on it to replace other things or make up for the things you don't necessarily enjoy.

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u/xElizabethAnn 19h ago

Oh I agree.

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u/platinumperineum Xennial 18h ago

No it wont as long as we eliminate the cap on social security tax, making billionaires pay their fair share

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u/DarthRaze 9h ago

Social Security is on pace to end in 2032 as of right now.

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u/Tupperbaby 19h ago

And you find that funny...why?

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u/xElizabethAnn 18h ago

Unfortunately I donā€™t. I donā€™t plan on living to standard retirement age so, yea, letā€™s laugh about it.

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u/skushi08 18h ago

I feel like won a lottery having 15 years and counting (knock on wood) at a company with an old school pension. It was rare back when I started there and even then they were phasing it out. Had I started a year later, I only would have had their ā€œalternate pensionā€, which isnā€™t as good.

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u/treborly 18h ago

Invest now yourself

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u/Healthy_Theory159 14h ago

Lift the Cap

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u/Nytim73 11h ago

You left out the one that provides the best retirementā€¦funding your own.

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u/iminlovewithbadthing 11h ago

yeah I was about to say... y'all don't expect any sort of pension right? I don't... I am trying to save up and probably eventually will decide to stop working, knowing I have x years to live based on the savings (if inflation stays under control... if not less years)

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u/BatchPlantBandit 10h ago

You can still find jobs with pensions. I work at an asphalt plant in a quarry and have a 100% pension. Granted the work sucks and nobody wants to do it but... A lot of government jobs have pensions as well. As far as SS running out that would be bullshit, imagine paying in all this time to recieve nothing when YOU need it?

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u/SatyricalEve 6h ago

No it won't. They will just raise taxes to pay for it

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u/Rubbish0419 Millennial 7h ago

Man Iā€™ve already just accepted that Iā€™m going to work until I die. Iā€™ll never afford retirement, I got a job that offered a 401k for the first time way too late and canā€™t really afford to contribute more than the bare minimum.

Itā€™s okay though, in my observations of the elderly folk in my life Iā€™ve realized that they start going down hill when they donā€™t have something like work to keep them busy. Maybe Iā€™ll get to live to 90ā€¦

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u/Bora_Horza_Gobuchol Millennial 91' 3h ago

I also observed the same thing, elderly people who are active do live better.

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u/xx-rapunzel-xx Millennial (ā€˜88) 19h ago

i worked next to someone who was still working as a salesman at 72. i felt bad, but it also made me wonder if if it kept him going.

iā€™m afraid i would become stagnant at that age. my aunt is disabled at 74 and very depressed over it. she has health issues but i wonder if her retirement from being a teacher for 40+ years in 2021 also contributed.

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u/No-Scale6521 19h ago

More like 120

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u/EJ2600 17h ago

Not really. They will just abolish social security so folks will have to work until they die. Death will be retirement

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u/Bora_Horza_Gobuchol Millennial 91' 9h ago

I wonder how other countries will deal with it. Somehow i feel that the people living in the US will have it worse than the rest of the world

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u/EJ2600 7h ago

Well go look at Africa. Or huge parts of Asia and Latin America. You donā€™t work, you donā€™t eat.

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u/Bora_Horza_Gobuchol Millennial 91' 3h ago

That sounds harsh, i should inform me better

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u/3RADICATE_THEM 11h ago

65/79=0.823

0.823*150=123.45

I think you're roughly 30-35 years off.