Health insurance is HOW MUCH!

And there are Brits here saying how great private care is and how much they want it... fucking turkeys to christmas.

Stop dreaming, start killing the billionaires.

... median lifetime earnings for the typical U.S. worker stand at $1.7 million...

And Musk makes over 3.5x that amount in a single day.

Three and a half lifetimes of work per day, and nobody wants to do anything about the billionaire problem?

If you spent $35K on a wedding, you're doing it wrong.

Retirement: $715,958

And this is why I likely won't be able to retire. At a recent retirement meeting my company gave, they said that people should be putting 15% of their income into retirement. However, I can't afford to do this. Not even close.

I live a pretty frugal life. I don't vacation. I rarely go out to eat or order food in. I plan my meals and only buy what we need. I drive a 14 year old car that's paid off. Still, my expenses, while less than my income, wouldn't let me reduce my pretax income by 15%.

I'm 48 and I doubt if I'll have 20% of the figure above when it comes time to retire.

It costs lives too. Exploitation is hard baked into any $ucc€$$fu££ ~~vulture~~ venture or ideology

To put it in perspective... I inherited my mom's house, retirement, life savings, car, etc. And I am still very limited in buying a new home where I actually want to live, bc of how outrageous prices are. Just imagine... almost 70 years of her life, and I can't do what my dad and his first wife easily did at age 20 working as a restaurant manager. Insane.

WE KNOW

Obligatory George Carlin quote

Some costs might be lower or higher, depending on a family's goals. For instance, some might pay for more than one-year of college for their children, while others might buy fewer cars.

Wedding and engagement ring: $35,800

One year of college for two kids: $42,080

Pets: $67,935

Average cost to buy a home, including lifetime mortgage payments: $796,998

Are you really buying a house if you never finish paying for it?

Nope, the Big Brain Compassionate People have since informed me that the American Dream™ is ONLY that you have the OPPORTUNITY to maybe afford that life.

So the American Dream™ is that CEOs exist, you can be one. The end. Get fucked Mr.Factory worker, your time passed and even though we still need you we don't care about your quality of life, just be a CEO.

It's amazing, because in that world the American Dream™ is literally impossible to deny. Rich people will always exist and Big Brains will always point to them and say "you can be that" so shut up.

Considering the Earth is dying and society will probably collapse in the next 20 years, there's no "retirement plan". You either die in your work boots at 90, get shot in the water wars, or starve to death once agricultural zones turn to sand.

Buy the game you want. Tell that hot person you're into them. See as much as the world right now as you can.

Sure, there's a COL crisis right now in North American, but in 20 years we'll look back at right now as "the good times".

The American Dream is not as attainable as people claim.

I feel like I read a same article like this every 3 months

This explains alot, a life without love has made my checking account stable.

Save up a million in 401k, investments and equity just to spend it all in a couple of years for senior care.