Post by @cyberlyra@hachyderm.io

RE: https://flipboard.com/@usatoday/money-h53mnd6tz/-/a-FEUbsODWRYuO_5dUyx1mPQ%3Aa%3A3199709-%2F0

Um yes, OBVIOUSLY. When your entire career has been defined by three 'once-in-a-lifetime' financial crsises and you couldn't afford a home until maybe never and half the people you know are out of work and the other half never had retirement funds cos they were all contractors and...?

I basically figure there won't be retirement by the time I get there. The boomers I say this to kind of pat me patronizingly and say, 'don't worry, you'll get there,' as if it is just that I can't imagine I will ever get old, and then when I start to explain how and why I will actually honestly never get there but I hope they enjoy retirement because it still seems to be a working system for them, they sort of back away slowly and assume I'm depressed instead of a realist.

USA TODAY

@USAToday@flipboard.com 16 hr. ago

Generation X is freaking out about its impending retirement
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personal-finance/2026/10/28/generation-x-retirement-401k-savings-social-security/92461280007/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Lawrence Miller

@ldpm@wandering.shop 46 min. ago

@cyberlyra the article buries the lede, which is that NOBODY thinks they'll be able to retire:

"Among all generations, Gen X is the least confident of retiring "with a comfortable lifestyle," the report found. Just 18% feel very confident, compared with 23% of millennials and 28% of boomers."

I'm Gen X and I have a modest 401(k) that I expect to be destroyed when the AI bubble pops

SofaFernsehFan

@SofaFernsehFan@swiss.social 13 hr. ago

@cyberlyra
Thx for posting a link thats not working "in your region". It's so helpfull. Twats.

FoolishOwl

@foolishowl@social.coop 14 hr. ago

@cyberlyra Across several jobs I've had money in 4

Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)

@jaredwhite@indieweb.social 14 hr. ago

@cyberlyra I haven't the faintest idea of how I would even begin to explore the idea that I should start to plan for someday possibly thinking about maybe I could consider the notion that I'd be able to retire or something.

You might as well ask me how I would move to Mars. 🤷🏻‍♂️

The Crafty Miss

@TheDonsieLass@mas.to 15 hr. ago

@cyberlyra I assume the climate breakdown including collapse of health systems will ensure I never need to consider my retirement, a sort of gallows solace I take for my generational impossibility of seeing the retirement some boomers have

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net 15 hr. ago

@cyberlyra Baby Boomers always promised Social Security wouldn't be there for us. They even said that at the incoming employee meeting at Microsoft. "It won't be there for you, so you have to be ready on your own."

sustaining member

@nolan@microsh.art 16 hr. ago

@cyberlyra through a stroke of luck found myself working for a state agency early in my working years and probably have a pension to look forward to. most of my friends are just white knuckling a 401k or maybe a little home equity. so yeah. terrifying.