Question: Does this resonate? Or does it fall flat?
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Before you were born, your
life was planned out for you. You
would go to school all the way through college. Get a job with a good company that would take care of you. Start a family and have a couple of
kids. Work hard and loyally for
forty years for that company and earn increases in income and status. Finally, you would retire on your
pension, move to a warm climate and golf the rest of your life away.
Sorry it didn’t work out.
The real world intervened
along the way.
The college you
attended put you deeply into debt, if you finished it at all. The job with the good company didn’t
materialize. Instead you bounced
between whatever jobs you could find or stitched together multiple jobs to
assemble a livable income. Despite
the difficulties, you did eventually start a family. However, families are expensive, and you fell deeper into
debt when you hit a rough patch. When it came time to retire,
you found that you didn’t have much of a nest egg. The home you spent so much money on isn’t worth that much,
your savings were meager or a casualty of the global gambling system we call
stock markets, and the pension you thought you had was raided by the CEO of the
company you worked for to provide for his mistress. In the end, you live with your kids, if they like you, and
if you're lucky you might end up in a rest home that doesn’t feature cockroaches
on the menu.