(March 8, 2020 at 9:14 pm)Fireball Wrote:(March 8, 2020 at 7:29 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Sound advice but I am going under the assumption that Brian doesn't run in a circle of people with inherited wealth.Neither do I. My MiL is still alive! The same type of people can help Brian as help me. Personally, I'd recommend that Brian get employment, even if it's minimum wage. That will likely put a buffer between him and truly abject poverty. It is at least something.
I am not a Trump child by any stretch. I can say that my late mother left me enough that I can live off a budget without having to work for now.
An no, I did minimum wage my entire working life. It certainly is honest work, sure. But I'd rather go broke than to run myself into the ground.
Work a 7 years of Easter Sundays as a dishwasher at a breakfast joint. I'd almost call John McCain a pussy. <---- Not really, or by any stretch, but still.
Point is, and not just for me, but anyone. I hate this attitude that the class one ends up in should determine the ability to retire with dignity. I am lucky, so far. But if my mom had not left me with what she did, there are far more with parents with far less than what she left me. And I spent my life working with others with far less of a safety net than I had. I don't like seeing old people working knowing they are forced to by economics. Our economy increasingly has become work till you die.
