One of the survey’s biggest findings is that 61% of those 50 and up are worried they won’t have enough money for retirement.

Among AARP survey findings: 61% of Americans 50 and up are worried they won’t have enough money for retirement. And only 21 percent of people have a retirement plan.

An increasing number of people are worried that they won’t have enough money to live comfortably in retirement, and men aren’t as financially secure as they once were, according to an annual survey from AARP.

The AARP Financial Security Trends Survey, conducted in January and released in April, included interviews with more than 8,300 Americans over 30 across every state in the country. Conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago, the survey aims to analyze the financial experiences and attitudes among Americans.

One of the survey’s biggest findings is that 61% of those 50 and up are worried they won’t have enough money for retirement, Indira Venkat, senior vice president of research at AARP, told USA TODAY on Wednesday.

And if you break those numbers down even more, one in five of people who have not retired have no savings at all, Venkat said.

  • SoylentBlakeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m at once advocating escaping the dystopia that America has become and passing judgement on America, not any other country.

    I assume I’ll work til I’m dead, or until I can afford to move to Indonesia. That’s it. Relying on the government has never worked out in my favor, I’m not going to start now.

    • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Why Indonesia? It’s run by the mobsters that committed a horrible violent coup and mass killings a couple generations ago.

      You might want to choose another destination, that one is depressing.

      Bright side, you do not need much money to permanently live abroad and it’ll give you way more free time than working until you’re dead.

      • SoylentBlakeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Indo is a vast place. Islands have entirely different cultures than other ones.

        I spent 6 weeks there a decade ago. You couldnt pay me to step foot on Java, but Lombok? North Sulawesi/Manado?

        Yes please. Google Bunaken, it’s right off the coast of Manado in the shade of a volcano. Diving in there, you look one direction, theres 1000 different species of fish. Look the other direction, there’s an entire different 1000 species. One of the largest confluences of life on the planet.

        • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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          2 months ago

          Nice. For me, it’s the same reason I never visited North Korea, I just have a problem supporting the regime.

          But I do love visiting sprawling countries and especially the small towns within them, so I completely understand regional diversity.

          And while the regime is a problem, it isn’t as globally dangerous as North Korea.

          So you went diving in bunaken?

          • SoylentBlakeEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Yea man. It should seriously be in everyone’s bucket list, but at the same time, not, so it doesn’t get ruined. World heritage site and all.

            I imagine veiwing the sarangeti from helicopter would give you the same feeling, or base jumping out of a barrel going over Angel Falls.

            Its hard to find comparable equivalence to crazy exciting and crazy important at the same time, where you’re just in awe at existence and that you get to witness it. Whole religions are founded on trying to spread that awareness to the mundane.

            To recreate that feeling, or maybe give you an semblance of it, in purely hypotheticals. Take that movie the Island, right, where they hunt people. Hear me out.

            Take the Island.

            Populate it with convicted pedophiles…

            And hunt them with chemical castration darts…

            Like, you’re doing the Lord’s work then, there are contextually no losers here.

            Someone pitch this idea to Chris Hansen already. I waive any rights to it, the work is more important than my need to benefit from it.

            Similar feelings; my point.

            You get me, I hope.