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Donors raise $233,000 to give US cart pusher, 90, chance at retirement (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

didn’t want to get into a debate of how long he might live vs how conservative he would need to be with the money. Seems a bit grim of a discussion.

That's a conversation we all need to have at some point in our lives. That's literally the heart of retirement planning. Nobody except for the very rich retires without doing that math and making some assumptions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’m fine discussing my own mortality. Guessing at someone else’s, even hypothetically, seems like bad form. JMO.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Fair enough.