I'll get back to you guys when I can
Problems upon more problems. I also had a family member have the nerve to also ask me about how do I get any social security!?
Because they know I work independently and don't pitch in.
Can you believe these pricks? I didn't answer them and walked away.
My family, the stupid "German" side comes out of them with anything to do with health insurance and social security. Things which I don't believe in.
Only cowards and pussies at life in those things or concern themselves with it.
There something wrong with society or the wages of labor if you work and cannot save money for retirement.
Granted, most people cannot live but that's the point! Retirement made people become pacifists towards accepting wage slavery.
Family is troublesome, if you don't have boundaries...and it sounds like you are making the correct moves in dealing with them.
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My family is solid for the most part, but they are always bringing up the past, which I don't like. I mean I am in my fucking 50s now, not a teenager...SMH...
I have learned to never tell people about your "wins" in life, whether it is a stock or a good pension, etc...you just can't do it...too many lazy vultures roaming around all families. I actually like to play the part of "crazy man with guns and weapons" around my family...and that helps me maintain a distance with them.
As for retirement, I am set up for early 60s, as I have put in a lot into the god dam system, with over 20 years in corporate hell...and a small pension that I will get from my other work...I am concerned a little if I hit 80 plus, because that is when I see lots of people just moving slow and losing it...so I will have to have a family member with good DNA makeup and decades of good behavior help me out with that...so family is not totally worthless....as there are some good people...I have a 75% Italian and 25% Irish cousin that is solid, although the Irish part comes out sometimes, and it is a bit scary. Somewhat lazy and smoking too much dope/drinking is not a good thing with these Irish.
@Joey Aragon,
DeleteYep, boundaries are everything, and I'm seeing that people this year seem to be trying to test those boundaries more than ever. Very extreme.
The other family members who were around my age (but have long passed on) and older, were much MUCH better people and that's when I had a much more normal overall family. But not any longer.
Yeah, I think Inflation sooner or later will gobble us all up, granted I've prepared for some measures to deal with that to some large extent, but the thing is, even I would not be able to keep up at the pace of inflation in some soon years to come with the rate we're going, considering the costs of food and many other things right now...
Yes, I have the same situation with my family...
DeleteThe newer generation is lost. Lots of mixed marriages, children out of wedlock, etc. This is something that was a big no no 50-670 years ago, and now is common. And I really don't want to be around them too much these days because they think I am the nut for bringing this stuff up to them. They are just naive fools, for the most part. And they are not going anywhere in the spirit realm, but back to Planet fuckery Earth.
As for inflation, the best way to combat is if you got "lucky" and have a nice property with a low monthly payment. I have that, so I know that I aced that part of life. And I bought at a terrible time, in a terrible place in the mid 2000s...
Owing money is really not a bad thing, with inflation. That is where people are in a good place, and don't know it. It was the smarter, and conservative, responsible people that have received the most damage from this inflation. Here they go, chasing and saving this worthless money, only to have it devalued with "money printing", as our friend Marc Farber warned us about for the last several decades.
Energy costs are really my concern, as these greedy SOB have so much leverage, and have a monopoly for their services. I refused to pay a final bill when I moved out of the East Coast, just to get them back a bit.
Either way, we are definitely in for a time of dystopia with the money changers really starting to panic, after losing the war. They will want to recoup loses, so I am sure they will take it out on the naive Middle Class, that think the government still has their best interests in mind.
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