Sounds like a bad novel. In the year 2050 no one knows how to actually program anymore. Then ClaudeGPT by GoogleSoft goes down. A 74 year old former software developer is on his farm tending to hens.
A self driving car crashes into his barn.
Out comes out a tech bro, “Yo OG programmer bro, it’s all busted bro, could you like make it unbusted bro.”
Then again with social security set to go bankrupt it’s not like we’ll be able to retire
> Then again with social security set to go bankrupt it’s not like we’ll be able to retire
I don't know about you, but my notion that my social security check is all I will need to survive my retirement years died when my father started drafting his own social security in the 2010s, and it was literal peanuts after being a small business owner his entire life (restaurants) and paying more than his fair share in taxes. Do the average folk still have this notion that social security = retirement? Hopefully not, it's certainly misguided now, but it was misguided then, too.
> Then again with social security set to go bankrupt it’s not like we’ll be able to retire
That is why you should use current money to become less dependent on future money. That former developer on his farm had the right idea, he bought a farm. So did I, with many hectares of forest which I use to build, heat and can also use to hunt should that become necessary.
How afraid are you of not living right next to a hospital?
The nearest hospital is around 45 km to the north, there's another one at about the same distance to the south. There are roads here and there are helicopters for when it is urgent - one of those landed a few kilometres from us a few years ago when a 'neighbour' had heart problems. I'm in the countryside but that does not equate to 'the middle of nowhere'.
