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from the sign-me-up-for-the-next-hermit-convention dept.
The nation's nerds woke up in a utopia this morning, one where everyone stays inside, sporting events are being canceled, and all social interaction is forbidden.
All types of nerds, from social introverts to hardcore PC gamers, welcomed the dawn of this new era, privately from their own homes.
"I have been waiting my whole life for this moment," said Ned Pendleton, 32 -- via text message, of course -- as he fired up League of Legends on his beefy gaming PC. "They told me to take up a sport and that the kids playing basketball and stuff were gonna be way more successful than us nerds who played Counter-Strike at LAN parties every weekend."
Always look on the bright side of life.
[Certainly an element of gallows humor, but it does offer a different perspective from the incessant drumbeat of gloom and doom surrounding the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. What "positives" have you seen? --martyb]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 15 2020, @03:42AM (5 children)
Earliest eligibility age is 62.
But, if you run the numbers, you then have to live until you are about 83 years old before the "better benefit" of waiting until 72 returns more total cash than starting at 62.
Yes, the size of each check is larger, but starting at 62 you get ten years worth of smaller checks before you get that first age 72 check, and those slightly larger age 72 checks have to make up for those ten years worth of accumulated smaller check amounts.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday March 15 2020, @04:33AM (4 children)
I can't think like that. My take home pay is considerably larger than SS + 401k would be if I were to retire right now. So, I keep working, which mean that both SS and 401 keep growing. If/when I retire, I'll get more money.
Retirement is for old, worn out people who can't work. In fact, I think that's what congress was talking about when they created social security. They never really considered that people would just get lazy, and use social security to lie about doing nothing.
My wife is talking about retirement, but hasn't decided when she's going to do so. I haven't even given it serious thought. I'll just keep on working until one of a couple things happens.
1. the job dries up and blows away
2. I'm sick or hurt and can't work
3. I'm sick or hurt and working becomes more of a hassle than I can deal with (which is not precisely the same thing as #2)
4. Maybe I reach 75 or 80 years old, which will shock hell out of me - I didn't expect to reach 30!
5. I just drop dead
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 15 2020, @08:08PM (1 child)
I pick no. 5. How soon can you do it?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 15 2020, @08:12PM
You only get a vote if you pray to the magic fairy in the sky. Or, one of the fairies who have been elected to public office in recent years.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2020, @11:54AM (1 child)
Point 4: Me either
wtf happened...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 16 2020, @12:49PM
The good died young, dude, and we're stuck here.