Your assuming we wouldn’t just get a job

Yeah... as a society, we don’t exactly support people offing themselves for being failures.

If you have no problems with Windlands, you will certainly not have problems with this. The only games that set off my nausea are Robinson and that one on VR world where you’re in the mech thing and you’re hopping around asteroids, I forget the name.

I have my “VR legs” and can play games like Eve: Valkyrie and Windlands for hours on end. I played Farpoint for about an hour before I got sweaty (you know, the sweats that precede nausea?) and had to stop. Granted, this is the first time I’ve picked up my PSVR in a few months, so I’m sure as soon as I play it some…

As a leftie when it comes to holding guns (and other sports things, but weirdly not anything else) it works perfectly. There’s a leftie mode in Farpoint so it doesn’t even mess with you by having the wrong hands holding the gun.

You mean, it’s taxes, constitutionally collected from citizens by virtue of Congress’ plenary authority under Art. 1, Sec. 8 of the Constitution?

I completely agree with you. As a tax attorney married to a physician, we will never hurt for money. I am happy to pay into social security, even if I never get it. I don’t need it. Literally, social security, when we reach our peak (and for professionals that can be around retirement age), social security will make…

Yeah, except you’re wrong, because an overwhelming amount of those people would end up asking for government help. So, as common with Republicans and Libertarians, privatize profits but socialize losses.

Are you able to predict the future? Because even a portfolio that is balanced between stocks, bonds, foreign investments and the like will take a substantial hit (and a much longer recovery) if we have another 2008.

They worked a couple extra years and then retired after things got better.

I’m not sure you understand the concept of a “guaranteed return.” That alone is pretty damn valuable.

Way to ignore what I said. So... are you willing to just go off into the sunset (presumably to either live off the land or kill yourself) when your investments crash? Because, if you’re going to be selfish, so am I. So, no tax dollars for you if you fall flat on your face.

As a person who hits the cap, I think it’s absolutely ridiculous there’s a cap. Either remove the cap entirely or put a net asset limit on those who can receive social security.

Yeah... the problem with that is, when your investments don’t pan out or the market tanks or whatever the case may be, you’ll have your hand out looking to the government provide you welfare.

The only side effect I got from drinking regularly was weight gain.

My point is, it’s silly to say “I think opiates are not safe, I’m going to drink alcohol instead.” That’s basically replacing one drug with the other, except that the first drug is prescribed and regulated by the doctor and can be traced to determine if there are interactions. Whereas, if you self-medicate, then…

So... getting addicted to alcohol is better?

In fact, it is. You can have a placebo effect that makes you feel either that a fake drug worked, or that a real drug didn’t. It’s called the “Nocebo effect.”

I have pressure urticaria that is well controlled by Zyrtec, but without my allergy medication, drinking alcohol or opiates (prescribed for kidney stones a while back) really set it off to the point where I’ll just start itching for no reason and then I scratch the itch, then I get a welt that’s even more itchy.

Alcohol is a histamine, so it will increase allergic reactions, not decrease.