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Micro-Retirements and Nobody Believing in the Future
from Stay At Home Summer & Being A Good Guest | The Tim Dillon Show #439 · #439
5 min
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Tim discusses the trend of young people taking 'micro-retirements' instead of saving for old age, tying it to widespread hopelessness about the future and citing Gene Hackman's death as a grim cautionary tale.
- Nobody believes in a future anymore, and they're not wrong about it.
- No one fantasizes about a traditional retirement playing golf in South Carolina with their wife.
- The current ethos is "smoke them while you got them" — live now because the future looks bad.
- Everybody is ready to live now and be killed, waiting for catastrophe rather than retirement.
- Micro-retirements are people saying they don't believe in a future, so they're spending money now to rejuvenate themselves.
- Those taking breaks look at their lives and realize this isn't going to end well.
- People know things are going to get worse — they'll die in cyclones, get diseases in Thailand, get taken in helicopter crashes.
- The mini-retirement thing is an acceptance that this doesn't get better, and it really doesn't.
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