• nytrixus@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Capitalism be like “NOPE! NOT TODAY! NOT EVER! YOU WILL WORK UNTIL YOU DIE OR YOU WILL DIE WHILE SOMEONE ELSE DOES YOUR WORK!”

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      7 months ago

      Hard to blame this specifically on Capitalism because it doesn’t force working forever, it just doesn’t have a mechanism to prevent it. You CAN save all your money and retire at 40.

      Democratic-Capitalism brings us the social safety net which usually DOES have a specific mechanism to allow for retirement at a certain age. So that proves those things are not incompatible, Capitalism isn’t working against retirement, it’s just not focused on retirement at all.