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i care deeply for the common person. if we overthrow the ruling class you can retire whenever you want. until then, no, i don't care about your retirement fund. you're extremely lucky to be in this unfortunate position. I am not sorry for telling you this, because you need to read it, but I am truly sorry for causing you to suffer by reading it. sometimes, though, people do need to hear unpleasant truths.
if you really want to fight for your retirement, then join a union and get involved with activism.
You're fucking ridiculous. All I have to do is successfully revolt but until then I have no right to complain. Fucking pathetic nonstarter
complain all you want, you have every right to do that, and while I could have worded it better, and i'm genuinely sorry that I didn't, but if the worst thing that happens to you is that you have to work for as long as everyone else, then you're very privileged, and complaining about it just comes across as selfish and entitled.
imagine if your family and hundreds of thousands of other people got rounded up and were being sent by train into concentration camps, but someone sabotaged the railway lines to disrupt that plan. then imagine someone on a thread about that story was complaining that the railway sabotage made them late to the cinema.
maybe you wouldn't write the most compassionate reply to that comment either. maybe you're a better person than me. i have no idea. but i still don't give a shit about your retirement fund, i never will, and i won't apologise for that. if that makes me a bad person, so be it.
I don't give a shit about anything you say. You lost me a while ago. Slaving under capitalism for years of one's life is torture. Everything you're saying is hyperbole just designed to judge and shit on me ✌️
if you didn't give a shit about what i say you wouldn't have gotten angry at what i wrote.
i know i was wrong to be so aggressive and hostile in my original message, and i apologise for that.
i don't think you're a bad person, in fact, i'm sure you are kind and loving. i don't want to shit on you.
but i do stand by what i wrote since. you're so determined to be angry that you won't listen to sense.
This line "you care because you responded" is so tired and obtuse. Shitty arguers on the Internet need a new one. My original comment got over 50 upvotes. Because people understand how fucked up it is that the common person is suffering. Because yes, working is suffering. Then along your dumb ass comes acting like suffering isn't real unless it is worse than [whatever you define]. Can't say the same for you about being a decent person because either you want to treat others shitty or you've got something mentally going on that prevents you from seeing things clearly.
the common person is suffering and of course that's fucked up. i didn't say your suffering wasn't real, i totally agree that working longer is suffering.
you're totally right that i wasn't seeing things clearly, i was emotional because of all the horrible shit going on, and seeing someone complain about not getting to retire early was just... very painful to read.
as i mentioned before, i regret my original message, and i've apologised for it. i should have been more compassionate and sympathetic.
i hope you do get to retire early.
solidarity