I was meant to be looking into retirement villages around about this time of year
With a small child after buying a house? XD
sitting at home on a pension doing nothing of value for the money
I wanted to ask: What kind of retirees do you know? o_O
Then I remembered that usually when you write "work" you're meaning "job" and that's probably normal, I tend to use "work" to cover pretty much everything that requires effort. The only retiree I know that sit around doing "nothing of value for the money" is my 96yo grandmother and I think the only reason she doesn't do much is because she has dementia. Everyone else is constantly doing stuff.
Unless the stuff they're doing is also considered "nothing of value for the money" XD
I am starting to hear mention of "post-pandemic stress disorder" which some people are predicting will lead to a sharp increase in heart conditions, especially among the 30-45 age ranges.
I keep hearing that there's an uptick in heart conditions coinciding with covid vaccines and seeing as the vaccines are absolutely infallible it cannot under any circumstances possibly be even tenuously remotely associated (correlation not being causation and all), but the last explanation that I had was that it was most definitely a covid thing. I guess this also makes sense given how much stress some people are under and also
the high amount of people who have become more sedentary over the last two years and the impact globally would likely kill more than the virus has itself.
Sick people are a money spinner,
Yes, but what happens when no one can afford medication? O_O
unless there is a paradigm shift in those who are the most affected
This has been happening for a while now though right. Just waiting for it to be more of a thing than it already is :)
Ona a tropical "crypto island" :D
workOh, I think I explained this poorly as I think @preparedwombat thought I was talking about retirees too. This was more about the random unemployed person who thinks they are beating the system by getting government handouts. I just edit... but can I be othered? ...too much
I normally use work like you do too - value adding activity of some kind. Playstation and Netflix rarely count.
I put two and two together on this also - but didn't want to bring that into the post. It is pretty obvious to me that this is vaccine related, as there have been plenty of cases already. This makes the heart condition rise a vaccine injury - better to blame stress.
Even now, the healthy people pay. Post that, and I think Soylent Green becomes the norm.
Ahh I getcha now. I knew some kids like that when we were in high school, they were bragging about how they were just going to go on the dole and go surfing and drink beer every day. I haven't seen them since so I don't know how well that worked out for them.
That wasn't the end of that though, there were people I knew at uni who were gleefully "scamming the system" to get as much "free money" as they could (don't know how that worked out for them either long term as I am only still in contact with a handful of people from uni).
Sounds like a great future x_x
They are living it up, surfing Margaret River.
I had some Uni friends doing the same - I always found it interesting that they were generating HECS debts, though never intended to pay them off.
Ergh I have one of those too. I'll be able to pay it off when we're cryptobazillionaires x_x