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Gedadahear t1_j22smn6 wrote

Reply to Not putting money into a retirement account is low key gambling that you won't be around long enough to see it again by GingeredPickle

Lets say someone started working in 60’s, avarage wage was $4000 a year. Works for 50 years. Avarage wage in 2010 was $40k a year. When in the 60’s, that money that went towards pension wouldve been more useful to use in the 60’s than to save for 2010’s where the money has depreciated 10 fold. All those years of pension accumulated would barely cover 20 years of expenses with an ever increasing cost of living. So whats the fucking point? State pensions are there regardless of how much u put in.

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Fabulous_Book5526 t1_j22scvx wrote

Reply to comment by Key-Passenger-2020 in Every protagonist in every story is a Narcissist, what with the world revolving around them and all. by Key-Passenger-2020

I don’t think you properly grasp the concept of what a narcissist is. In a work of fiction the world SEEMS to revolve around the fictitious character because their perspective is the only one you’re given and the story revolves around events that occur to THEM so you empathize with them the most. But that does not mean the world revolves around them and even if it did (like some fictitious characters) that still does not make them a narcissist because a narcissist is by definition someone who has an inflated sense of self importance, whether they are actually more important or not has no effect whether they are narcissistic.

So unless a character outright states or acts like they’re worth more than other people, they are not a narcissist. Even if in the story everything is about them.

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