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Just over half of Americans over the age of 65 are earning under $30,000 a year, and it shows how stark the retirement crisis is (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 27 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Don't they own a house? Didn't they vote for this?

[–] ringwraithfish@startrek.website 24 points 8 months ago

They voted for the future. Unfortunately, they thought they would be millionaires/billionaires in the future.

[–] errer@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not everyone was lucky enough to buy a house…

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Didn't pull hard enough on those bootstraps

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Too much cocaine toast back in the 80s otherwise they'd be millionaires