To feel angry at how few people make a plan for their own old age

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OptimismvsRealism · 10/07/2024 14:34

We are all going to end up in a bad way unless we're lucky enough to drop down dead unexpectedly

Why do most people live in denial?

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ThatTimeIKnewFamousPeople · 10/07/2024 14:37

What sort of a plan? Most of us try for whatever pension we can manage, aim to have paid off the mortgage, have life insurance, some savings and maybe some funeral insurance, and try to stay relatively healthy. What else do you do?

MrsTerryPratchett · 10/07/2024 14:36

A lot of people live hand to mouth and can't realistically make any plan that will truly support them.

There's also an issue that people have become overly reliant on 'someone else' doing it for them, whether that's family or the state. Giving so many typical, working people top-up benefits doesn't help. Like debt, we get very used to it.

Lostmymarblesalongtimeago · 10/07/2024 14:36

what sort of plans? Not everyone is in a position for example able to plan ahead esp financially. Many people just exist from paycheck to paycheck.

RookieMa · 10/07/2024 14:35

This

Member869894 · 10/07/2024 14:35

Maybe because they can barely make ends meet in the present?

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