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  Sounds like a lose/lose.... Can't spend money while your alive, but if you do spend the money your fucked later... Don't worry, corporations will make record profits whatever you do though. Long live the corporations!
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  Going to work is low key gambling youll still be alive when they pay you! >
  
  Ok but I get my paycheck every 2 weeks. You can't withdraw funds from a retirement account until you're 65 (in the USA). Come on now, it's not the same level of risk at all.
  Edit: You can withdraw before 65 but there is a penalty, so I consider that the price of the gamble. >
  
  Isn’t that the point of your post that some things are really low risk gambling and i found something even lower risk than yours but in the same vein? >
  
  Sure, but my point seems more practical than yours. By your logic, walking out the front door everyday is a gamble. That's technically true, but you'd literally not be able to go about life if you thought that way. Same with your counterpoint: work for income is practically necessary. Putting money into a retirement account technically isn't. >
  
  Yeah, technically everything you do is some micro level of a gamble with an expected outcome that may or may not come true.
  Sounds like you agree but for whatever reason you’re saying one example is more valid than another but i don’t think thats the case. >
  
  Yea my feelings are more in line with yours on this matter. >
  
  This is now the second time in my life when the gamble is not "will I be around" but rather "will there be an economy left to back the gamble" >
  
  The outcome is worse if you bet on dying before retirement and then you live on