Thank you… unfortunately, the system is working exactly as it was designed to do. If people can’t lose their job because they’ll also lose their health/healthcare then they won’t fight back even against little injustices, let alone large ones. I dream of a day when the U.S. has universal healthcare, but I don’t think I’ll see it in what’s left of my lifetime.

Can start looking forward to retirement maybe?

I long for (early) retirement, but I’m pretty sure I’ll have to continue working until I die just so that I have health insurance. :(

There is some truth to this… I’ve moved on from the ideas that I might be highly influential or consequential. Now I just focus on trying to be a good person, do good deeds that keep me happy, tell nazis to DIAF, etc. No fame to be had for me. Other than a few immediate family members, I’ll be forgotten to time when I die.

To a very limited degree, you get a little more ‘respect’, but it’s often fake and fragile. Otherwise, nothing… body starts degrading and it’s all down-hill.