The Smith and Wesson Retirement Plan
Don’t plan for retirement, plan on dying:
Regardless of the reasons why, most people will PLAIN NOT HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY FOR RETIREMENT and THEY NEVER WILL. So why bother saving up in the first place?
Interesting and morbid read. Oh sure, it will hurt someone’s feelings because it’s morbid and callous. But it does make a certain amount of economic sense.
June 11th, 2012 at 5:00 pm
I have a different S + W retirement plan. I’ve been refining it since the mid-90s when I realized that SS was doomed demographically. It consists of the following: When I turn 65 or thereabouts, I will pick up a pistol and embark on a new career robbing banks. This will continue until I either have enough cash to live comfortably or until I get arrested. Phase 2 kicks in after my conviction and I live out my days in an old guys prison playing cards, eating 3 square meals a day, and enjoying free health care for the rest of my life.
I may need a wheel man if anybody would like to join me.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:03 pm
There’s a catch with that plan, though; if SS and Medicare crash and burn, what makes you think the remaining working population will choose to keep feeding criminals instead of Grandma?
It makes me think of that one prisoner in The Stand, who was immune to the disease, but trapped anyway. Jail is bad enough when society is functioning.
June 11th, 2012 at 11:14 pm
Huh. Admittedly I did formulate this plan before 2008 with the assumption that only SS would go broke, not the entire economy.
June 12th, 2012 at 7:37 am
Everyone wants to die of natural causes, starvation is natural cause.