I really need to start saving. There's not just the constant spiral of property prices in this stupid country - there's the upgrades on the kids' genetics, the kids' education (after all, the UK has the lowest social mobility of anywhere important, so I'll have to shell out for a good school for the little brats), plus any tricky drug treatments I may need in the future (the NHS does a good job, bless it, but it probably won't be able to afford my Alzheimers treatment by the time I get there).
And of course my death inoculation, which is going to need another mortgage.
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But by the time we get to the age where we start dropping, we'll be able to upload ourselves into the net and live on in some kind of virtual paradise - at least, as long as we can afford the hosting fees...
For my retirement I plan on buy a tractor and a cow. We will not be able to afford anything else, and then again, I'll need gas for the tractor, huh?
You could plough, sow and reap bio-fuel type crops, powering the tractor with the produce of your fields. Seems a bit of a circular way to live out your days though.
Hang in there, Moom. It's going to be a long Monday! ;)
Don't forget the protection racket 'subscription' money we pay to keep the brain uplink viruses and hackers at bay, as well as the meds we take to keep the uplink from driving us all crazy.
I think I'll just turn into a vegetable and let everyone else worry about me. Or maybe I should buy stock in tractors.
Everything costs ten times what it cost when I was born. Fortunately, wages have passed the 10x factor. The down side is, as you might expect, the cost to borrow money. The present and future values of money are rated just like the cost of goods now, only the factor is exponential rather than arithmetic.
Actually,the future is going to be awfully cheap. I'd even venture to say that there's a good chance this century will see a repeal of scarcity and supply and demand.
Personally, my plan is to live long enough to be a burden to my children. Haven't really worked it out beyond that...
Note to self: Got to get some children... ;)
Parity purchasing power has increased roughly 2.5 times in most OECD countries in the last 50 years. No reason to believe that won't continue.
Quite right too!.
Don't forget to pretend to be deaf, as well!. Must be barrels of laughs.....(for you, anyway!)
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