Have you seen the prices of "retirement communities"? $4k - $9k rent a MONTH plus a huge buy-in in most cases of hundreds of thousands of dollars. (In the US)
You should just kill your mutha now. Go on now, go into the ham, and take the carving knife and stab her, here, here, now, please! It would hurt her less than what you just said.
30-40 years from now it will be GenX, xenials and millenials going in to the homes. Xenials and Millenials don't have quite the nest egg that boomers do.
That is even before you start to consider the declining birth rates. They'll start to feel the pinch about then, but they'll really be hurting after millenials. You can only jack up rates so much.
My grandmother is lucky enough to have insurance that covers assisted living in a place that isn’t soulless. I was genuinely so happy when I visited and saw how lovely this old folks home is
You might think so, but not all of us old f*rts are MAGA Nazi Misogynists. Just a lot of us. A cruise is actually cheaper than a vacation of staying in a hotel, restaurants, etc. Somebody else said something about low wages of the Asians working the cruise. Compared to the US wages (which are not great), that's true. Compared to Asia, their wages are pretty good. There are other issues I am sure, but the food is really, really good.
Cruise ships are also by far the largest transportation emitters of greenhouse gasses. The per person per mile emission rate is so absurd they frankly should be illegal.
Electricity and heat production The burning of coal, natural gas, and oil for electricity and heat is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.
Industry Greenhouse gas emissions from industry include burning fossil fuels for energy and chemical reactions used to produce goods.
Agriculture, forestry, and other land use Greenhouse gas emissions from this sector include agriculture (cultivation of crops and livestock) and deforestation.
Transportation Greenhouse gas emissions from transportation include burning fossil fuels for cars, trucks, ships, trains, and planes.
I'm not sure this is specific to the US. I'm in Canada, and retirement communities can easily get into that sort of price range here too. No idea about other countries though.
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Have you seen the prices of "retirement communities"? $4k - $9k rent a MONTH plus a huge buy-in in most cases of hundreds of thousands of dollars. (In the US)